What Is Your Life Purpose?
Finding what you are meant to do in the world is a REALLY cool fucking feeling… if you are not going to sleep each night, looking forward to waking up, and doing life all over again, then you are doing it wrong.
I just hopped into bed on a random Tuesday night at 9PM (yes, I like my sleep) and this thought legit went through my head “I am so looking forward to tomorrow.” Now I would like to note, tomorrow is just a normal Wednesday for me. Wake up >> work out >> go to work, and I do not have anything special at work tomorrow either. I actually have no meetings, and will be able to sit at my desk all day (which is very nice for someone who is running around all the time.) Then I’ll come home and have dinner with a friend. No crazy Wednesday for Phoebe here, and yet I am so excited to wake up.
It wasn’t always like this. I had a really hard time finding a job and being comfortable with the fact that I would even have a job!
I am completely one to believe in things happen for a reason, as you probably have heard me say in past posts… Some reasons are really hard to understand, and some reasons we may never find out, but everything does happen for a reason.
I was an economics major in college with a minor in business. I had no idea what I wanted to do after graduation, but I knew it wasn’t economics. Why did I major in it? Who knows… So, I graduated and was thrown into the real world like every other 22-year-old. I had no real direction, I didn’t know what my passion was, and I was so upset every day because I felt like I was wasting my time.
Fast forward four years from now… today. I work at an event planning company, I moved out of my parent’s home, and I have never been more confident. I love my job so much it’s stupid. Yes, some days are really hard and tiresome, I once worked a 22-hour day and got in bed and cried because my feet hurt so much. But I loved every second of it.
That is the feeling everyone should strive for. The feeling of working hard, putting in the blood and sweat, but also WANTING to put in that effort. It is the feeling of knowing why you were put into this world.
I have thought about this a lot - If I had gotten this job right out of college, I would not love it as much as I do now. I got this job two years after I graduated, and after a year of applying to jobs and semi loosing hope. I appreciate my job so more now because I genuinely wanted a job, and I wasn’t just getting a job because that is what you do when you graduate.
My life quote is I love love. I truly do. I think it is what makes the world go around, and without it, we would just be empty bodies. So even though I had known my whole life that I love love, I never thought to put that to use. My job found me… I am a wedding planner. HOW FUCKING FITTING!!!
It bothers me sometimes that I didn’t come up with the idea for myself. My job found me. I was applying to all these social media and marketing jobs and this one just happened to fall into my lap.
The universe has weird ways of working its magic. And honestly, I have a really hard time listening to it sometimes… but everyone has peaks and valleys, there would be no highs without the lows.
I hope everyone is striving to find that feeling of “this is what I am meant to do.” And if you don’t have it yet, go out there and find it.
