What do I want from life?

As a writer (by hobby) I like to talk to people and I love to share experiences. I also help them by answering their questions and confusions related to their life using my own experiences. While this journey of learning the life, I met few people looking for answers of few questions. One of the most common question I have heard from most of the uncommon people is “What do I want from life?”

I mentioned uncommon people especially as most of the people do not reach to a stage where they can ask questions from themselves. If you have a question from your life, your life journey must have been very special and that’s why you have reached to this question.

Questions like this do not just come to mind. It takes a long journey, lots of experiences, lots of struggles and loads of emotions. And when a person reach to an endless road, when he does not know if it ever ends. He looks back and realises that he has covered a long path to reach here, but actually reached nowhere. When society starts questioning him, when family raises fingers on him, when he does not know whether he was right or wrong. When it feels like he has wasted so much of him. Then he reached to this question, what do I want from life?

If you have reached to question and you also feel that you need an answer, I can understand how your life journey was and how much criticism you would have faced. I can understand how frustrated you are right now, how empty you are inside, how lonely you are.

I can’t give you an answer to this question, but I would suggest you not to look for the answers.

I know I am creating some confusion here. But you have to realise something about this life. Life is not about looking for the answers, life is about experiencing something which can end your questions.

Life is about living it, not looking for it.

You have reached to this situation because you believed in yourself, and you lived your life according to you. But, now you feel that you have reached to an endless road. My friend, this endless journey is called life. It’s not about reaching somewhere but it is about living and enjoying your every step. The day you will reach at the end, your life ends.

Do not look for the answers, it’s not worthy living. If there is an answer, why would you ask this question. Because you are asking these questions to yourself, and when you don’t know the answer now, you can never get an answer later. Stop asking questions and start living.

Do not get frustrated just because you are being criticised or people are raising fingers. They will never understand what your journey is all about. Because they have never lived the life as they want. They lived their life as the society wants.

One of the best footballers of the childhood is a software developer. One of the best painters is a doctor. One of the fastest ballers of the local team is an engineer.

They are not living their lives, but they are wasting their true selves. They are just jokers who think he can make everyone happy by giving his fake smile.

It’s not life. Life is not about achieving positions, buying luxuries or showing your assets. Life is about living every moment. It is about making someone smile. It’s about helping other, so that they can smile.

If you have always lived like you always wanted to be, you made your life success.

If you helped anyone in life finding their true self, you made your life worthy.

That’s what I am trying to do, to make my life worthy.

Just go, and live the moment, do whatever you want, with no regret, with no sadness, with no questions.

By: Sagar Srivastava