Up to my eyeballs in questions.

What does it mean to live? Ha! One of those million dollar questions. You're a good person, you stop for pedestrians, you go out on Friday nights, you try to travel to at least one new place every year. Or you don't...you don't like to travel (petrified to fly?) and deep down you don't care if millions go hungry every year. Or you try to be grateful for the things you have. You love your wife, or your husband, or your girlfriend...sometimes, all the time, every minute of every day? Do you even question these things? Wait...so what's normal? Are people normally in love every minute of every day? Is it normal to cry in the shower for people you have never met, that will never even know the luxury of your mediocre body wash? Do you feel bad because you're not sure where the starving people are?

You're successful in your job, you have a beautiful family, but (get ready, another tough one) are you happy? No wait, not happy, but happy? Truly happy? Content. Do I have to meditate to find that happy place, do I have to quit my job and move to a faraway land to find that happy place (haha, maybe...), or is that happy place in my backyard, on my hammock, with a good novel and a cup of tea? So if happiness could be anything to anyone, is in fact completely different to different people, and is so hard to find that most people (may I be so bold?) don't even know if they have it, where do we even start on the quest for it?

Does living = happiness? Does living + happiness = contentedness? Or does happiness + contentedness = living? Or am I completely missing the point?

Either way, sometimes making a change and challenging yourself to something new can offer some insight into what the “right” (ha, another one!) path is for you. Or at least, show you a little more clearly what isn't right for you at all. But just like everything, there are two sides to each story and everything changes with a new perspective. So, this blog is just my story, the world through my (open) eyes and my (open) heart. Hopefully my perspective will change 100 times, as my life changes, and as I learn and grow. My challenge is to open up and ask all of these questions, truly ask them, and search for some of the answers.

Will you challenge yourself to do the same?