Writing about writing is a fascinating, eye-opening process. Here I am, consolidating what I have written during the past four years about the cottage, travel, solitude, social life, faith, my mom, being in my 70s, and more, and also journaling about that very experience and what I am currently discovering. And what is that? That we human beings are continually asking, ‘And now what?’’, which includes the doing part of life, such as the next meal, appointment, friend to see or help, book to read, trip to take, be it a vacation or to the supermarket ….
Behind this doing, however, it seems that we are really asking about the being of life. Why are we here? What is our purpose? It just isn’t enough to know that our search for meaning is ontological. We have to grasp some personal answers, a big answer as in our individual mission, and small answers, which are present in seemly random moments of deep satisfaction.
Behind this doing, however, it seems that we are really asking about the being of life. Why are we here? What is our purpose? It just isn’t enough to know that our search for meaning is ontological. We have to grasp some personal answers, a big answer as in our individual mission, and small answers, which are present in seemly random moments of deep satisfaction.