Today is day 9!
Some things to note. It came on gradually, but my gnawing hunger is gone! My stomach feels pretty empty most of the time but it doesn’t feel like hunger anymore.
Not much cravings today; in fact i haven’t eaten the chocolate which i allowed myself to yet.
One of the funny thing about going on a raw trial and this being coincidentally the september school holidays is that i can’t escape from my mind. Most people, when they feel bored or restless or uneasy, use food to distract themselves. On raw food, its IMPOSSIBLE because if i don’t feel hungry, the piece of fruits/vegetable is very unappetizing and i don’t feel like eating it.
As a result, i’m forced to stay present and become aware of how “un-present” i normally am. My revision plan has been going pretty konkily. I’ve nearly complete doing history notes and i’m left with econs and math. Tutorials and revisions, i have to accomplish. Hmm.
Oh yes, because work isn’t very appetizing, i prefer to not do anything, which also allows me to see how present i really am. Hurhur!
Oh yea i had an insight today on life purpose. My previous goal in life was to be a liverpool footballer but after my catalysmic (PRO ENGLISH) but i think i spelt it wrongly) encounter with the power of now, i realised that was a very poor life purpose indeed. For a while, i thought my life purpose was to stay present and be enlightened.
But during these holidays, that didn’t seem appetizing. Sit around and be silent? Doesn’t sound right. So i looked through steve pavlina’s discover your life purpose, read through some of this meaning of life articles, and as i was listening to an interview of eckhart tolle, it hit me!
A life purpose, even though its tailored to be the individual, should be one free of self-seeking. Meaning, not seeking to be “someone”, not seeking to have an identity like a liverpool footballer. That added on to my criteria of enjoying the life purpose. After more thinking, i realised it also had to have a creative and contributing element to it.
So for a clearer life purpose criteria and also career since career is highly related to life purpose, its
1. Enjoyable
2. Contributing to others
3. Creative
4. Non self-seeking (Focused on others, the world)
Some of the career options i browsed through were the military which was a very safe and secure job. But it seems lame to be a soldier just to earn money, knowing that your contribution is to help propagate the illusion that singapore has a defense force of any significance.
Then came teacher, hypnotist, psychic, hypnotherapist, healer, lucid dreamer, and a teacher and trainer of these fields. Nope. I would contribute and it may or may not be self-seeking but I wasn’t going to enjoy it! What was the poin of doing something others had done when you’re probably going to do a sub-standard job? Yes, its feasible that you can do so as a ‘part-time” thing but it shouldn’t constitute your life purpose/main focus of career
I had an idea hit me whilst doing ‘How to find out your life purpose in 20 minutes or less” exercise on stevepavlina’s blog. I could, through novels, stories, plays and literature, communicate and spread eckhart’s teachings! That sounded enjoyable to me! I needed to be creative in order to entertain, inspire and share! The thought of that was very enjoyable, it certainly had a big contributory value, and i wasn’t seeking my self in it.
So yes, that is a possible career path.
Perhaps i should post this on a separate part. Yes i will
The King of the World 