I have heard over and over again that the poor state of the economy is an opportunity for reinvention and new possibilities. I believe it but where do you start? Another favorite statement is that we are all supposed to live with passion. Ugh, the pressure! Passionate reinvention that will pay the bills? It is all so overwhelming. All the while, we are supposed to "brand" ourselves and google research our names and become our own P.R. agent to get a job where everything is possible. So I am branding myself as who, to whom and to do what? The thought alone makes me want to become a passionate sleeper.
The Industrial Revolution gave us many things but these decisions were easier when you were a farmer if your father was a farmer or a blacksmith if your father was a blacksmith. Now, we live in cities and suburbs, buy more and more stuff, drive cars that have the power of 95 horses under the hood (instead of 2 horses that pull the family wagon), go to supermarkets to buy organic food (instead of growing or raising it), live in houses that are hundreds of square feet more than we use (especially since we are hardly at home - we are out finding our purpose and joy), etc. (The argument can be made that indoor plumbing makes all the "advancements" worthwhile.) Now we hear daily updates about layoffs, threats of layoffs, banks doing what they do and politicians doing what they do.
Where do I go from here? Where is this magical, fulfilling, purposeful and passionate place that we are supposed to live in? Oz? Wonderland? My money is on Candyland, isn't there a chocolate waterfall?
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