Giving My Life Purpose

“We don’t know where we’re going but we are on our way.” This quote by Deepak Chopra, MD was his introduction to a documentary featured on Iconoclasts on the Sundance channel, where he teams up with Mike Myers, the highly versatile actor comedian of Austin Powers. They focused on storytelling and comedy as being the paths to “higher levels of consciousness.” It was experiential improvisation at its best and what impressed me the most about this unlikely team formation was that I was able to connect to the theme at such a personal level and a that new connection opened a new thought path for me. Therefore, I asked myself again the inevitable question of whether or not life has a purpose and how it is that I would identify it soon enough so that I do not miss it. How catastrophic to miss the point of one’s life and journey on this planet. We often define our purpose by what we select as our career path. We work and work, strive to be successful, hope to acquire abundance or wealth, and also aspire to somehow be recognized for our efforts. But what if that path we took was not the one intended by purpose. What if we missed it?

“Everything is going to be ok; now let’s go have fun.” Mike Myers shares his late father’s philosophy of life with this thought. I connected with him instantly as he talked about his father’s death and how he felt so devastated because he had wanted for his dad to be able to see him succeed as a professional actor and comedian. My dad died relatively young and he worked so hard his entire life. He never had time to be sick but when he finally took the time to be healed from what he thought was a simple health problem, he died two months later. No one expected him to die. I do not think that he thought he would die so quickly. At that time in my life I became the rebel. I questioned God’s reasoning for killing my dad. I wanted to know what really happened to someone when they die. Recently, I have wondered if he knew his purpose and whether or not he had chosen the right path to fulfill that purpose. He too had a wonderful sense of humor. I remember his chuckle most of all. He found humor in everything and he had the ability to make people laugh. Maybe that was his purpose.

I think that I chose the right path for me.