By Ahsan
“Life's like a road that you travel on
When there's one day here, and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There's a world outside every darkened door
Where blues won't haunt you anymore
Where the brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore”
Tom Cochrane, “Life is a Highway”
I came across a discussion on the internet about a guy in his mid-30s asking what he should do with his life.
This is not an unusual question to ask at any point in one's life, but a good point to ponder for just about anyone.
Interestingly, the guy had a minimum-wage job, no significant other, no hobbies, did not get along with his family or have good friends.
So people offered their suggestions for this fellow.
What would you suggest?
Many people said he ought to have a life goal or purpose which would make all the difference.
Is having life goals the magic ticket?
I tend to agree, but what if you can't think of an inspiring vision for your life and are just in a hamster wheel with a view of a brick wall?
Here would be my advice: Recognize, Relax and Ride.
Recognize that you have a challenge or problem that needs a solution. In this case, finding fulfillment or direction for a "short, nasty and brutish" life is a challenge.
It would be best if you also recognized that your thinking about it is holding you back. You need to change your thinking about being stuck in the hamster wheel.
But how do you think differently? You are bored because your life is how it is, and you need to see a way forward to a more engaging life. You are stuck in the mud, and your wheels spin.
That is why you need to relax because good ideas do not come to you if you are tense and upset. You cannot clean up the streets when a storm is coming through.
When you relax, your mind often offers solutions to your challenges. It's a magical by-product of the relaxed mind to present wisdom and insight that creates a breakthrough. That's why some of your best ideas and solutions come to you after the storm passes and you do something relaxing, like taking a hot shower.
And so, life improves because you recognize your issue as something that comes from thinking about it. Rather than get more tense and upset, you say to yourself, it's my thinking generating the feeling of being rudderless and empty. I need to think differently. And so you call on the mind's mechanism of giving you wisdom by relaxing.
Having been offered a game plan from your inner wisdom, you need to ride the journey of life from there. Hop on your vehicle, strap in, and enjoy the scenery along the way!
We all deserve to enjoy the ride of life and have an easier time of it.
Hey, if you are like me, you will always ask: What do I do with my life? Until the next stop on our ride of life, we might invoke the simple idea: Recognize, Relax, Ride.
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