Thanks Joshua and am so glad that you have helped heaps of people live a more full life 🙂

Hey hey Mark, welcome back. You were MIA for quite sometime and I was missing your contributions. So glad you are back 🙂

Hi RF

It is a very high level and deep question that you have asked and I would like to share my perspective.

I would like to use the example of a Mount Everest to illustrate this. There are broadly 2 types of people in this world – one who are at the bottom of the Everest looking for ways to climb the mountain or work around it and then there is another group, who have achieved more or less everything they need to bring acceptance, comfort and happiness in their current lives. I think you belong to the latter group and you may be wondering, what’s next ? Is there a next step beyond the Everest ? Is there an actual need to do more than climb the Everest (assuming it is the tallest mountain you can get to) ?

Goal setting and achieving them is a very important phenomenon for people who are in the first category as they don’t know what it is like to be at the top. They can only imagine the scenarios, smell, temperature but if they have not made it to the top, they won’t be able to appreciate the vibes of being there. Goals do not mean as much to the second group of people as life is great as is and there is contentment. There is difficulty finding the motivation to do more. What value do we put on Contentment ? Some people never get to experience this and most of us will spend our entire lives trying to even get a sniff of it.

You are in a very blessed state and space. This is the time when a person can seriously begin their spiritual journey and do a a lot for the world and it’s people. I sense that you are itching to do something but not sure what. Could it be that you want to contribute to this world in some way ? Do you want to share your joy with others ? Do you want to share your acceptance and learnings with others ?

Your fears about being alone in your old age are not without a valid reason. If you think about it, We are all in the same boat regardless of having a partner or kid or not. You will be surprised at how many old people spend their time alone in hostels or nursing homes despite having families. They crave love and attention and many die without their families by their bedside. However, you are unique – you are happy in your own skin. You are happy as you are. You have a grateful outlook. You are happy sitting on your couch and just be. How awesome is that ? Cheers for that 🙂

I think what you need to find out is – what do you want ? Like Mark said, what makes your heart sing ? Just keep doing that and you will have contentment in life. Mother Teresa spent her entire life looking after orphaned kids. She didn’t need to do anything else as that kept her going until the day she left this body. Gandhi spent most of his life teaching people about non-violence. He died preaching same.

We don’t have to achieve it ALL in this life. What we do need is peace, contentment and unconditional love in our hearts and soul. Do you have that ? If not, maybe it is the right time to go looking for it 🙂

May you begin your spiritual journey and find out what is it that YOU want and not what this society feels that you should achieve! The want has to fulfil a purpose – a deep purpose, which resonates with your being, which makes your heart sing and dance, which makes you flow with life. That purpose can’t be a materialistic purpose as anyone can achieve that but I think your inner being is craving for much more. Finding that purpose could be your ultimate purpose and my experience tells me that it is often to do with personally contributing to society in any way from your higher self.

Sending you loads of positive energy,

Jasmine