What are your achievements? Do you like what you are doing? What is your ideal job? What is your purpose in life?
I was stumped when I was posed the above questions.
In retrospect, I realized with dismay that I have no worthy achievements to speak of in my 22 years of existence. Even more so, I realized that banking is not really my ideal job and yet, I am comfortable enough to stay on til now as I do not have any inkling what my ideal job is. That said, I realized I have no purpose in life. I merely live day by day, which is rather pathetic.
At Alley bar yesterday, I did what I love best, people-watch. As I watched them engage in seemingly long and purposeful conversations, I wonder how they would answer if they were posed the same questions that were posed to me. I wonder how did they realise what their dream job is. I wonder how did they find their dream job. I wonder what is their purpose in life.
Then again, I realized that not everyone is a happy and contented individual. How many of us are truly contented creatures? How do we actually measure contentment? Do we have some special formula that we add/subtract/multiply/divide the things we own and done to come up with a figure to say, "Oh, I have so-and-so, done so-and-so, and therefore, I'm contented"? Or do we listen to what our heart tells us? If it is so, my heart doesn't tell me anything. Neither are there any figures to determine my contentment.
It is in human nature that we always think that the grass on the other side is greener, or whatever.
