Just got through reading Victor Frankl’s “Man’s Search For Meaning”. Fascninating book written after his personal experience of three years in the Concentration Camps. A great book to check out if you are trying to find some perspective on your life.
I myself, am doing just that right now. I am trying to figure out whether or not I should leave where I am here in Florida and got to California, San Diego or more likely, LA.
With my real estate business all but over with here, and my strong desire to move into the direction of writing/speaking/communicating via internet with others about helping them find and pursue their purpose I am struggling to find a reason for staying here, other than its comfortable.
I am also in my early 30’s now, and in the small city I am in there are not many people my age. Its a college town and everyone leaves after graduating. So I kind of have a lack of social life that has been a problem for me lately. Its let to my being tempted to go out and party with the younger kids, just to have something social to do. (After all, I can only sit at the coffee shops and bookstores so long before I desire a different kind of social interaction, ya know?). And for me to go out and party is not good. It is my desire to not drink, as my body does not respond well to it. I didnt do it for 9 of the past 10 years, but after a 6 year sober spell I relapsed and have been fighting to get back permanently on the wagon since. Mostly due to boredom and lack of social life. So, this is another reason I’m strongly considering leaving. In LA (lived there once before for a year) there are tons of young people like myself, who dont party all the time, and who are also pursuing their dreams of different kinds.
Anyway, I am reading and writing and meditating and praying right now as I look for the right path to emerge in my own life. I desire to get to work on creating some meaningful communications that inspire and help others to find and pursue their own “meaning”. Let me know if you’ve got anything to share on the topic. Love to hear from ya.
Be Well,
Chris