How Life is Meant to Be Lived

After we are born, we learn how our life is meant to be lived. We are taught to be successful in life we must get a good job, make money, buy material possessions, have a family, and do the best things life offers. We also acquire our beliefs, prejudices, and ideas as we learn how to survive in a self-centered world. Those who believe this is how life is meant to be lived, though they may achieve their goals, if their success was not shared with others, their life will have been lived without meaning or purpose.

There is another point of view, however, a spiritual one, about how we are meant to live our life. This view believes we are meant to fully embrace and follow the beliefs of the spirit, a piece of god present within each life, intimately linking each of us to the other. The spirit is our life force or chi; it is the energy that animates all living things. By selflessly sharing our chi, our spirit’s wisdom and love with others, the reason we are alive, the lesson we are here to learn will have been understood.