The Life I Want to Live

Some wise people say that if you can see the picture of what you want very clearly in your mind, it can be the beginning of that picture becoming reality. It is good to know what one wants in life or what one is seeking or trying to achieve. Here is the picture perfect of the ideal life I am longing for.

I want a life that is meaningful and joyful in everything that I do. I want a work that I can serve other people and serve God, living everyday with happiness in doing what I love to do. I want to be able to share my love to the world in my own way. I want to care for the poor, the sick, the animals, and I want to help the children and youth find their own way in the world. My job is not something I do only for money but also for the meaning of it and for the joy of it. A job that I can continue until old age. A job that will not tie me to a chair in an office everyday with routine schedule,bossy manager and boring meetings. This kind of work suffocate me and almost made me die inside many times in my life. In my perfect life, I want to be truly happy and fulfilled from my work. It should respond to the destiny of my life.

I want a life free of financial burden, free to travel, free to read and write and free  to meditate and pray. Life is a cage if I have to worry every month whether I would have enough to get by. If  I have to keep pleasing customers and employers and keep saying yes to every job that don't really have meaning for me in order to have enough, I would find very little time and very little inspiration to do meaningful things that I love. So, in my perfect life, I have enough spare money that I can feel secure and have plenty of free time to do my favorite things in life: travel, writing, spiritual practice. Also, I can spend a lot of time with friends, family and the person that I love. In my perfect life, every moment is not in a hurry and is spent with seeds of love being sowed into this world. I don't have to be a billionaire or live luxurious kind of life all the time, but I don't want to live in poverty either. Just have enough to enjoy life without worrying about debts, enough to pay all the necessities of life, (an averagely comfortable life), enough to travel near and far every month and every year, and enough to give away to the needy and maybe set up a shelter for stray cats and dogs or a free-food giveaway shelter for the homeless.

I want a life that is not alone, yet not too crowded. I want to have a little home in a country area not too far from the city. I want to live with the person that I love. Having or not having children is not much of a big deal because I can go out to nearby schools or orphan homes and teach the children there anytime. I want to live by the side of the person who love me for who I am and our dreams and ways of life can support and uplift each other. I want the person to be kind, loving, unselfish, and funny because I plan to become that kind of person myself. The person by my side would be someone that I can also share the spiritual side with. We can love and serve the Lord in our own way without forcing each other to do the same thing. I appreciate what he does and he appreciates what I do. We just keep supporting and encouraging each other along the way. I want to have close-knitted relationship with this person. In my perfect life, I do go out to see other people from time to time yet most of the time I spend with the person I love and we enjoy our neighbors. It is not a super-socialized kind of life. Rather warm and quiet.

Writing about this perfect life can sound like daydreaming but I think it is like a lantern pointing to me the direction that I should move forward to. I don't know if I will be able to have this kind of life in reality before I die. Nevertheless, it is still good to try as long as I still live. At least, one can keep on walking until one cannot walk anymore. One can keep on swimming although there is no sight of shore.