When you have a roof over your head, enough food on the table, and all your daily needs met—what do you do? What purpose do you chase? Do you stay “blank”? Or try to figure out a new purpose?
We have abundant entertainment, abundant online connections, abundant pictures (and abundant time to share them), and abundant money to spare on our wants.
In this era of abundance of the unnecessary, there is also a great shortage of the necessary. A shortage of good education and knowledge, a shortage of food, a shortage of basic human rights, in if not all, but many countries. And, to a great extent, a shortage of animal rights, even in “developed” countries.
We are trapped—trapped by the default rules of the society we live in. Where, when your needs are met, your wants are chased. We all fall into the common tribe of people who chase the unnecessary.
If you can’t find the courage to chase a bigger (more necessary) purpose in life, break a few default rules today. To begin with, you can try to fill the shortage of kindness, and serve the people enduring scarcity around you.
The choice of choosing your purpose is all yours. Would you default or choose your own?