Enjoying life

It is important to know what is important to you.

Otherwise you might go through your whole life doing things you don't really care that much about: things that may be important to other people: things that are important in the grand scheme of things: but not really high up on your list.

I know someone who likes to mow grass and scrub her kitchen floor on her hands and knees. These things are important to her. She often calls me to tell me how much time she spends doing them, as if looking for my admiration or approval, but they are just not important to me. I try to be nice, but I don't understand and have a hard time believing she feels this way.

I like to volunteer. I prefer volunteering in school libraries, but I just like doing things people need done, so they don't have to pay someone to do them. The floor mopper really does not understand why anyone would work for free.

The truth may actually be that I don't want to mop floors or mow lawns for any amount of money and especially not for free. If I had my way I would live somewhere without lawns (woods, beach, condo) and let someone else mop my floor if it needed it.

I find it really satisfying to help people learn to read, or like to read. I love working with Bestest on his books. Education is the most important job in the world, in my opinion, so anything I do for it makes me feel really good.

But for you, and evidently many others, this may not be true, so it is important to figure out where your passion is. That is the key to really enjoying life.