The Joy of Being Human

Live your life every moment. Yes, this is the message by Jules for us. 

Adding further he said, 

“Make a sincere attempt to find meaning in everything that you’re doing. Apart from finding meaning in everything that you do, there is no other meaning to life. And I was pleasantly surprised. Apart from finding meaning in everything that you’re doing currently, there is no other meaning in life. And especially the kind of things that we all are into. I’m just wondering, is there anything that matters? To all my accomplishments? Do they have any meaning? And does the car that I drive? Does it make any sense to me the credentials that I have? Does it make any sense at all? And that’s a reflective zone that we all are into these things?

Yes, of course, in some sense, we’re born with WILL. With a strength of will, we want life to mean something. In some philosophical sense, there’s no scribed meaning. We make meaning where we find it. That’s the joy of being human. 

We can attach different kinds of meaning to life and so on. And the importance of gratitude, and counting our blessings, and so on. But I guess most of us, certainly, in my case, I’ve underused the options, the privileges I’ve had in life. One of my regrets would be, I wish they’d been more courageous. I wish they’d tried out more things. I wished I’d give myself permission to be released on what others might think, and to be, if you like, more, more conscientious in the experiments that I ran, it’s very easy, isn’t it, to play safe.?

I think that is why Aristotle said courage is the most important virtue, as all other virtues flow from it.

Being Unstuck from the Existential Crisis

These are existential moments in people’s life where they start to ask much deeper questions of themselves.

The question here might be where am I stuck and try and unpick that sense of being stuck.

So it begins with asking yourself this question, Where am I stuck? What’s holding me back? 

It’s more intrinsic than extrinsic.

Because I think that if we were to clarify the impediment, what’s holding us back, the barrier, almost certainly only in our mind. If you like those questions, they will certainly enable us to come up with answers that are quite radical for ourselves in terms of our choices in the future. It may be,  for example, that our work is no longer satisfying. It may be that those we’re working with are no longer inspiring. It may be that our boss is a particularly difficult person to work with. And for it may be that the conversations we have at work are insufficiently inspiring. And of course, it may be that we’ve tried to resolve these issues over two or three years and a failure to do so. 

Confronting those questions, possibly in conversations, I think we’re much more likely to make the jump. And give ourselves the right to try something completely different. Some of the most interesting lives that I’ve experienced are those of my friends. There I come across lives that take different directions at different moments. It’s not a single line, certainly. For those in their early 20s, life is not seen as a single line. Nor will it take the form of a single line. There will be many beginnings. And many pauses. These lives of far greater variety I think will be far more fulfilling.

Not enough of the workplaces take part in these forms of conversation. Where that sense of being stuck or the sense of frustration, or a longing for something else is talked about. Those conversations need to take place in the workplace where we can address them. As you know, our fears and hopes, it’s always an emotion, that we find new intellectual thoughts. Everything begins and ends with emotion. And therefore find a space at the workplace, the natural place at work, where emotions can find expression.