When the Games End
That's when life begins
It’s almost a game. We play lots of games in life, and the games start early.
When we are young (some of you still are), we set career goals and aspirations.
Those are fine and a natural part of our growth and development. We have a position or an amount of money in mind that will make us ‘happy’ or satisfy our needs.
That ambition, like any, leads to another and then another.
Think for a moment about how that process starts.
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It’s almost a game. We play lots of games in life, and the games start early.
✅ As a young child, you’re playing the school game or playing the social game.
✅ When you start to work, you begin playing the money game at some point that transitions to the status game.
Each of these games just has progressively longer time horizons.
At some point, perhaps you are here; we come to realize these are not real life at all, just games.
If it is just a game, does the outcome matter?
Don’t you just get tired of games? I did.
I’m at the stage where I’m not only tired of games, I also want something more from life.
I want to live out why I was created, expressed as my true self and essence, in harmony with everything I do.
That is the definition of Ikigai.
To live out my Ikigai, I needed to Kintsugi myself. I am a masterpiece-in-the-making, recovering the treasure of my true self buried by pirates in my life. I celebrate and reintegrate every piece of myself with gold that brings me closer to my Ikigai.
So many thoughts about this. I have mostly experienced life as a dance of light. I love the questions this post provokes. I'm going to think about it more.