Having an exciting and eventful life is a goal in itself. You want to try new things: new clothes, new experiences, new house, new relationships, new friends, new clubs etc.
You get busy in planning and enjoying all the things. When you enjoy so many highs, all the highs become the same and they no longer remain memorable. Gradually, the new things become routine but your busy-ness stays with you. You barely get enough sleep, trying to do everything in your life. Your weekdays are busy with work and your weekends are busy socialising, entertaining.
So when a friend asks you, ‘What are you passionate about?’, ‘What are your hobbies?’ - you have nothing to answer. It has been so long you’ve asked yourself that, you don’t even know what you are chasing.
That happens because between all of the daily grind you forget to check in with yourself, you forget to breathe, you forget to slow down.
Imagine a busy motorway passing through a national park. All through the day, vehicles going at 100k / hour. There are so many animals living on both side of the motorway but you barely see them. In case an animal tries to enter the motorway it gets crushed by the incoming traffic. That becomes a lesson for other animals to not enter that territory.
But suddenly, there is a landslide on the motorway somewhere and the traffic comes to a standstill. It’s going to take weeks and months to clear the debris. The animals notice the absence of traffic and start venturing out on the motorway again. You see the gracious deer, the mighty elephants, the formidable kangaroo and even the fearful tiger. The beauty of the national park reclaims its own space and gives real meaning to the land.
Similarly, with so many thoughts zooming through your busy head on a daily basis, the beauty hidden in our mental forest do not dare venture into the heavy traffic.
You need to create a landslide somewhere in your life, in your routine for an extended period of time to let the real thoughts resurface.
Be intentional about it