The “How Fulfilling” Nonsense

How fulfilling is your life now?

The best place to ask if you are living a fulfilling life - Google/ Amazon. You can try and get lost in the myriad of topics that show up, and end up being more frustrated that before. There’s a simpler way to do this - Do your Mondays and Fridays have the same level of excitement - If Yes, you are already living a fulfilling life. If no, proceed further :)

If you have a roof over your head, food on your plate, basic work, you are already better than a vast majority. So what would make your life fulfilling? Lets take you there?

• Would it be a bigger house/ Villa?

• Would it be a good social circle?

• Fame? Money? Cars? Bikes?

Even if you owned all of that, there is always something missing. Don’t blindly believe me. Do a fact check. How many times in the past have you felt that life would be fulfilling if you owned or had something, but after you got them, you need something else now?

After struggling for 20 over years to find a meaning or purpose in what I do, I have had some Eureka moments on what actually makes our life fulfilling. Again, these gave me maximum fulfillment, it could be something else for you.

• Giving the rag picker below my block $10 without hurting her self esteem.

• Morning coffee with a good book

• Taking the time out to volunteer, doing my workshops for Free

• Helping a sight impaired across the signal, even better dropping them home

• Working closely with an animal shelter that saves animals from illegal slaughter

• Working to my best potential and giving it my 100%. Finding that reason to work other than just paying the bills. Why do I need to work?

• Thanking a random healthcare worker for their contributions during the pandemic, buying them a lunch or a drink

• Hugging the cleaning aunty at the nearby coffee shop, most of them don’t understand English, but a hug is a universal language…

• Exploring new places, appreciating a student in the train for an art work she is carrying

• Collecting funds to help out a kid with cancer, for someone who met with an accident….

You see… the list can go on and most of these are not “Expensive”. If there is something that you have done in the past, that made you smile… go back in time, relive that… that will give you a reason to carry on. For me, being of service to someone tops the list.

Good days don’t happen, they are planned and made Fulfilling life doesn’t happen, reliving the experiences that made you smile makes your life fulfilling