Tim's Live Journal

These days I've been lost, but never really knew why I felt this way. The cause is confused with symptoms. Loneliness, ennui, getting older, all these things compounded with the speed that time flies these days.

We are born into this world alone and we leave it alone. What happens in between, the people we meet, love, relationships, success -all these things we need to figure out for ourselves through purpose.

Looking at loneliness as an example: Do we feel lonely because there is no one to give us purpose? To acknowledge our existence? To live for? That would be one's raison d'être.

A family is one's raison d'être. Keeping a relationship going because you love someone is a raison d'être. Achieving one's personal goal is a raison d'être. etc...

Simply put, our journey in life is to find our own raison d'être, for without it we have no purpose and feel lost.

I feel lost right now. My raison d'être is unclear or perhaps not as strong as I would want it to be -what my purpose is at this stage in my life. What am I supposed to do? Where am I supposed to be?

I've had raison d'être in the past. But what is my raison d'être these days? I honestly don't know. I suppose figuring out is part of the journey -for everyone.