and most definitely a wake-up call.
"If what you're doing doesn't bring you joy every single day, what's the point?"
- Michelle Obama.
And here is the purpose of life in a nutshell. To seek to do things that bring us joy. I know many of us are not in positions to be able to choose. In which case what we do would make sense only if we put our heart and soul into finding out how best we could do it....kind of make the very best out of the unfortunate circumstances or hopeless positions we may find ourselves in. Otherwise, when confronted with a choice - and life is full of choices - we need to ask ourselves if what we are choosing...what we are homing in on brings us joy every single day.
It is the same with people. Should we find ourselves in the presence of people who do not bring us joy...with whom we cannot be joyful......we need to just walk away from these people. For whatever reason, if we cannot, then we will have to devise our own ways of shutting them out from our heads and minds - since we cannot shut them out physically - before they make the heart sink with despair.
It is the same with the environments we find ourselves in. Walk away from debilitating environments and choose to be only in enabling environments....environments in which we feel we are growing, we are flowering, which bring us peace, which help us to use our talents, which allow us to delve into our souls and find that we are capable of making our dreams come true...