Does Never Stop Looking is The Key?
We’re living by pursue our life purpose, there is nothing denying that. We all want to wake up by understanding what will we do, not loosing our way. And we do that diligently, become happy when we reach our goals, clear our tasks, and sleep in peace.
Years of doing that, if we find our purpose correctly, we will never get bored. I talked with my friend yesterday, about ikigai. It’s about Japanese concept meaning ‘reason to live’ or ‘life purpose’ that makes people feels happy and energize wake up every morning. Word ikigai is consist from two word, ‘iki’ means living and ‘gai’ means value or fruitful.
There are four concepts of ikigai:
1. What you love
You’re enjoying what you do
2. What you’re good at
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You know you have talent on that, and keeps upgrading yourself
3. What the world needs
Does it beneficial for the world? it doesn’t mean for every race, but you give positive contribution for the world.
4. What you can get paid for
When we good at it and beneficial for others, we’ll get paid. We need to look for our opportunity on it.
Yes, that’s our way to keep us living. But our body isn’t designed to do that. Our body will surrender at some point. And our part that we used the most will be the one that will give up first. Writers and artist will tear their finger tendon. At some point tofu makers will get musculoskeletal disorders, and their skin will get burned from getting exposed by hot steam every day.
It will be great if there’ll be research about how many hours or how we’re doing our job in every kind of professions. Athletes is one of examples. There’s maximum time in training everyday and there’s a structured steps to get upgraded in another level or class. But we can’t be athletes in our lifetime, and keep looking for our next ikigai.
So, does life still worth living? When we need to looking for our next ikigai after we loose one.
