Your life can be meaningful – Part 2

It’s exciting to have you back on fresh motivation again today.

Yesterday, I did say that for you to live a meaningful life, it is crucial for you to be able to answer some very fundamental life questions. You must also picture how you want to end your life. Is it with satisfaction emanating from the fact that you found meaning for your life or is it with chronic bitterness and regret resulting from having lived your life without finding its meaning.

Please, understand that life has no return match. You have just this one life time and you must make up your mind to live it to its fullness.

Knowing how to use this one life to its fullest requires wisdom and skill much more than knowledge. Wisdom is fundamentally different and more important than knowledge.

Knowledge is the accumulation of facts while wisdom is the application of relevant facts to ones life to ensure that one lives meaningfully.

It does not matter where you are and how much time you have wasted your life can still have meaning.

I came across the story of a 60 year old woman who after retirement from public service discovered that her artistic gift had been lying dormant in her for 60 years. Out of nothing to do and not stay idle in retirement, she started painting and went on to have a flourishing life as an artist for the next 20 years. Reflecting on her life shortly before she died at the age of 80, she said thanks be to God that I found my life. I would have died miserably knowing what I should have done and not do it.

Before she died, one of her paintings was sold for 1 million dollars and commenting on that. She said “Can you imagine that I would have gone to the grave with 1m dollars which was more than the salary I earned in 20 years?

Another man at 50 years of age became frustrated on his job and decided to follow his passion of becoming a medical doctor. At 50 years of age. He enrolled in medical school, graduated at 56 and practiced for 20 years during which he invented a vaccination against a dreadful disease.

He would have gone to the grave denying humanity of that vaccination. Do you know you might be denying humanity a lot of goodies just because you are not living the kind of life you were meant to live?

Do you know that the consequence of not finding your purpose in life can be devastating for others as well as for you? Won’t it be great for you to take some time off for reflection? Reflect on how you have lived so far. It does not matter how old you are. Reflect on how well or otherwise you have lived. Will I end life with deep satisfaction and fulfillment if I continue this way or is it going to be a bitter end? I will leave you with that today.

Relax, rejoice and enjoy your day.