14 May 2004

Do we do who we are?

From time to time, we all confront the question of what we should do with our lives. Over time we tend to shorten the question and ask only what should we do. The 'doing' starts to exercise a greater emphasis over what it may mean to our lives. The danger with this is that one could be busy all of one's life and yet, at the end of the journey, still find it to be meaningless and unfruitful. Much more important than what we do is who we become in the process of doing what we do. How what we do changes us to become who we become? Do we like the person we have become in the process of doing what we have been doing? Should we then, continue to do more of what we have been doing or is it time to stop, pause, take a breath and figure out who we want to be and whether what we are doing is helping us in becoming that who we want to become?