HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT WHAT OUR PURPOSE IS?
WHAT ARE WE MEANT TO BE?
It took me a while but finally I am writing this motivational article. I am very happy to share with you what my experience taught me and what a great friend of mine (Andros Zacharia) helped me realize during one of his speeches.
It’s actually amazing how we can discover our purpose and raise our self-esteem.
The process of discovering WHY we were born and raised in this world is truly magical. It’s magical because we don’t really know how the universe works and slowly slowly it moves us towards our ‘destination’.
. The truth is that the journey towards our destination will be stressful and time consuming with an uncertain ‘ending’.
Personally, I call my own journey Ithaka (Ιθάκη)
[one of my favourite stories form Greek mythology and a Greek island]
[Keep reading and you will understand what Ithaka means]
Luckily or not we grow up in an environment where it has standards that affect our stress levels to the maximum. The reason of those increased stress levels is actually the pressure we put to ourselves to follow the standards. Not because we agree with what our society supports and promotes but because we live under the fear of failing in the eyes of other people.
Many of us spent their life in survival and consciously we are coping with these ‘standards’ , anticipating the worst case scenario and not letting ourselves to become who we wish to be.
Dear reader, we have to escape from this zone. Your future is created from the unknown, you cannot predict it. Do what you love and follow your own Ithaka.
How to help yourself during this period??
| Learn Your Self
| Master Your Brain
| Imagine
| Learn from New Experiences
The video below opened my eyes. Listen this powerful speech before you continue reading.
Do not be afraid of the unknown. Create your future with your personal reality!
Every journey is difficult at the beginning but you never know what future will bring to you unless you attract what you are keen to have!
(click here to get some attraction tips)
By doing what you love you will help yourself mentally to discover your Ithaka… the reason you were born in this world! I will not lie to you, it will not be easy, you should master your brain to get away from negative energies that shadow your dreams.
YOU ARE THE SHADOW OF OTHER PEOPLES’ PURPOSE
AS MY FRIEND ANDROS SAID.
Although that some shadows have negative impact on us, they can also be helpful or supportive during this journey.
How?
Lets try an experiment to get more familiar how our future is created from other peoples' shadows.
Imagine you are walking in a dark place… There are few people around you and one of them is approaching you and start walking for a while next to you. He is speaking to you and suddenly he disappears.
You now feel abandoned but you keep walking in this dark path. Suddenly the path is getting lighter, there are more trees around you, animals and a lake.
Do not stop there…
Keep walking…
Another person is approaching you! He is walking by your side, talking and laughing with you and unexpectedly he pushes you.. you get hurt and you are bleeding. That was painful and you are struggling to get up again…
Eventually, you stand up and you keep walking again. The light is about to disappear and then, two other strangers are grabbing you tightly and you continue walking together.
The path is shining now… Your scar disappears.
Feelings of happiness and joy surround you and you keep walking with your new friends. You see more light as you go further.
Keep walking, nobody can stop you!
One of your friends gets hurt and you help him get better but after a while you decide that it’s time to leave him behind because he is not the same person you met… and you run!
After a long run you arrive in a beautiful place full of green mountains, a big lake and many many smiley people.
Do you remember the place that you been dreaming to visit a long time ago?
You are there now!
You are overwhelmed, you can’t express your feeling in words. Even if you choose to be alone you decide to stay there because your heart is fluttering.
You arrive where you should have been but it took some time and you had to leave some people behind you.
..this is how we shadow others’ journey in what we call ‘life’
This is life, you will eventually find happiness and fulfilment!
You now may feel lost and disappointed with your life but do not forget…
‘’There is always A dark side of us.
The one you HAVE been through shit alone and no one knows how much you suffered.
You would be okay, it takes time, but you will escape the tunnel. ”
-Andros Zacharia-
There is not such a thing to let you down. You will follow your own path and you will steadily find out why you were born in this planet.
Value your adversities, let them grow you… and then let them go.
It has been a difficult time for me, I can write for hours but I will close this short article here with the poem Ithaka.
Hope your road is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbors you’re seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you’re destined for.
But don’t hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you’re old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn’t have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
C. P. Cavafy, “The City” from C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems.
I hope you understand why I named my journey Ithaka
Thank you for reading, I hope this helps!
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