You don't have to go climb Mount Everest to feel excited and alive. You don't have to feed hungry people to feel fulfilled. You don't have to solve crimes or cure diseases to fulfill your purpose. You don't have to travel to another continent for adventure. You don't have to invent anything grand or make heaps of money to validate your existence. You don't have to go anywhere to help people and make the world a better place. In fact, your purpose is right in your office. You don't have to go any farther than your cubicle. Your purpose is in the grocery store, lying in bed reading a book, or staring at the ceiling.
You don't have to teach anybody anything, you don't have to fight to make the world a better place. The world is miraculously in existence every day: the sun burns at just the right distance from earth, our bodies breathe on their own and create new cells. People are born and die. Dead things decompose. And by some miracle you get to be part of it all. That's enough.
Your life right here, right now is enough. Your existence is enough.
You're doing a great job at being you, and that's all that's required. And it's more than enough.
There's nothing you have to buy, nothing you have to prove, nothing you have to invent or do.
If you want, you can smile at a stranger and make their day. Which might make their life.
You can listen to your coworker for the first time. Really listen.
You can say hi to a lonely old man.
You can write something profound. Or something not.
You can walk to another state.
You can make plans to cure world hunger.
You can dream about going to space.
You can buy a yacht.
Or not.
