“Stop looking for your purpose-be it,” Dr. Wayne W. Dyer.  Right now this world needs the helpers.  It needs the kind ones.  It needs the visionaries.  It needs the ones who support.  It needs the ones who create.  The world needs exactly what we are and it needs us to be that.  In a world that moves faster and faster, in a world determined to misunderstand itself in the name of victimhood, in a world filled with endless beauty and opportunity we ignore, in a world where we have options to do whatever we want yet choose not to use, in a world of self-made chaos and drivel—it needs purpose.  We need to be reminded of our purpose so we can choose to step up and fulfill it—so we can be it.  There are a lot of fucked up things happening right now in the US.  Some we are numb to because it happens all the time.  But we are living at the precipice of falling into chaos or salvation and the choice is ours either way.  We created this mess so we are the ones who have to fix it—and we CAN fix it.  We do that through being who we are meant to be.  It’s as simple as that.

We convince ourselves we are lost or confused but the truth is we are only confused because we aren’t being true to ourselves.  That latter part I don’t blame a single person for—we are all taught to play the same game and it’s hard to break the chains.  It’s easy to go with the flow and repeat what we know and we only know what we are taught.  That truly is the way life is.  But there comes a point where we have to consider the lessons we teach next.  What are we showing our kids?  What are we showing the world?  Right now we’re encouraging a dangerous precedent with anger and self-centered/attention seeking and ill-informed platforms portrayed as truth.  We are taught that reality isn’t real.  Look, anyone who has followed me for any length of time knows I HIGHLY encourage getting in touch with the mind and being aware of how we feel so we can navigate our actions.  What I don’t advocate for is delusion.  Dream big, live big, think big.  Do it all bigger than anyone before, that’s fine.  But don’t pretend that our whims are the reality other people seek.  When we serve our purpose we no longer need the light on us, we feel content to do the work quietly.

Here’s the thing: There’s a lot of negativity in the world and we need to address it—that isn’t something we can sweep under the rug any longer because that type of repression is part of how we got here in the first place.  I’m not ignorant enough to “feel” that away from the world.  I’m also not ignorant enough to assume that everyone has the capacity to turn their lives around on a dime.  It doesn’t work like that and we all have very real healing work to do.  But I’m just crazy/hopeful enough to believe that if we shift our focus, even a little bit every day, that we can make some real change in this world.  I’m crazy enough to believe that we have a choice in what we share with people and that some day we will tire of the energy it takes to keep up with what we’ve created and we will settle into who we are.  There is peace in who we are.  There is peace in letting the mask down and putting all the crap away, put it down.  There is peace in coming together in collaboration and community and love and joy. But we can’t do that until we are willing to look deeper and start asking if we are really doing what we know we are supposed to.  Stop pretending we don’t know what we know.  Take back the power and BE that person.