Do you think so?
You’re probably asking yourself: did I choose the wrong carrer? If so, know that it’s not your fault.
You didn’t exactly choose the wrong job, but you unconsciously let yourself be carried along by your surroundings, staying on the surface without digging deep within yourself to understand the reasons for your choices.
This happens for two main reasons:
1. The destruction of creative happiness
2. Conditioning
Creative happiness.
In schools, we are taught new knowledge and techniques that we will later use in the working world. That’s it.
School doesn’t teach us how to face life; it merely provides the state with educated and competent individuals for the workforce. This distances most of us from our deepest selves, from what truly excites us, in exchange for economic and social security.
But it is possible to stay in touch with ourselves, as long as the people who mentor us throughout our lives are themselves an expression of that creative happiness, enthusiasm, and love for what they do, and are not oppressed by routine and their job.
Like a mirror, we reflect what is passed on to us by our mentors, both positively and negatively.
Conditioning.
We are not conscious of conditioning, only of the emotions it causes, which are often pain and conflict.
But conditioning stems from attachment. Attachment is what conditions us.
In simple terms, conditioning is attachment: to people, to tradition, to ideas.
Whatever it is, the object of attachment allows me to escape my inner void, preventing me from digging deep within myself to find my true being.
This is why we cling to the idea of pursuing this profession or that one, perhaps because our father practices it or wants us to.
We decide to take an office job because the idea of having a desk all to ourselves, with warm or cool air, makes us feel satisfied and fully fall into the idea of prestige.
And thus, we become victims of attachment without realizing it, fueling pain and conflict within ourselves.
Conclusions.
Being aware and understanding conditioning helps us recognize the escape route we are taking, reducing conflict instead of feeding it.
Understanding that the role models we’ve had as mentors throughout our lives have largely shaped who we are today can help us realize that we’re neither
stupid nor wrong, and that we can fix things… we just need to be aware.
Furthermore, one can always change, especially nowadays. I’m not referring to enrolling in university again and starting an entirely new educational path from scratch, but rather to turning your passions into an additional source of income, which can complement an existing salary and allow us to reconnect with our creative happiness.
Maybe we’ll only earn $100 from it, but the joy we’ll feel from earning that amount through our passion will reignite a flame inside of us, making us more grateful for
life and for what we already have.
Additionally, let’s not fall into the trap of measuring everything with money: coming home to someone who’s waiting for us and loves us, or having a hobby that makes us feel proud and fulfilled, even when everything else is going wrong, that is true wealth, a lifeline that keeps us from being swallowed by the whirlpool of everyday negativity.
