Wonderings 6

Who am I?

What is my purpose?

I would suspect that who one is changes every decade or more...

• 1-2
• 3-5
• 6-12
• 13-19
• 20-29
• 30-39
• 40-49
• 5-59
• 60-67
• 68-75
• 76-85
• 86-95
• 96+

Again, this is an generalization, and if it fits most of the people, it will never fit all the people.

Who we are again is impacted by:

• Family and Friends
• Teachers and Professors
• Religious Leaders
• Political Leaders
• Financial Status
• Work Associates
• Military
• Spouses
• Children
• Divorce
• Retirement
• Health

Another issue about WHO WE ARE...  focuses around looking back once we are retired.

We spend all of our lives (or most of it anyway) making decisions, making choices, taking risk or risk aversion as we try to mold our career and our FUTURE WHO ARE WE...

And yet, when we look back at retirement, most of us realize that we ended up in a place that we had no idea that our decisions would take us there.

So, how did that happen if we made all our own decisions to take us in another direction???

ALSO...

as we look back (from retirement) we quickly realized that Who we are and What is our purpose while sometimes mutually exclusive, are very much intertwined.

Therefore...

we can assume our purpose changes with age as well.

MEANING what exactly?

That purpose is oftentimes not known until after we retire...  as it may take our entire life to discover what our purpose was meant to be or not meant to be.