This week and weekend was full of making and deepening connections, especially in that 1 on 1 setting, in which I excel the most in creating meaningful relationships and engaging in reflective and informative discussions. In the past few weeks, I notice I'm attracting more people into my life that operate and live and vibrate at a certain energetic frequency. I love having those conversations and thought-provoking convos where something new is formed within that convo. Something said that I not the other person has thought of before. Something asked that hasn't been asked to me or them before. Something that actually takes time to pause to pause and think before giving a response. This week I've started taking notes too during and after those informal convos. I really think it's one of my many purposes as a human to draw out the soul, the essence of our existence for myself and with others. And 1 on 1 convos are one my highest ROI assets in doing that.
So I was listening to a Jay Shetty podcast episode last week with Liza Koshy. They were talking about how we don't just have one purpose. We are multipurpose. It's up to us to find those. Not just accepting and settling for our one purpose. But to realize that we have this unrealized potential for a vast, diverse set of purposes. The other thing Liza brought up is that she views herself not just as one self, but as many selves. That in each type of environment, a different self of her emerges and shines. The important distinction here is that she doesn't not feel herself when she 'activates' these different selves. They're just various aspects of her. All of them still feel 100% true to who she is, so it's not a façade or faking to be somebody she's not. I too have many selves. One at work, one with high school friends, college friends, Sai Center YAs, kids, etc. Each self is still 100% me. I feel comfortable in my skin in all these selves. Now let's combine these 2 concepts. We may think of people and purpose as a one-to-one relationship. "MLKs' purpose was to advance the civil rights of black people and other minority groups." We may even think of it as one-to-many. "Bill Gates' purposes were to head a revolutionary tech boom and to provide an avenue and means of doing mass-scale humanitarian projects." What if, though, we thought of it as a many-to-many relationship? "Kobe Bryant's athletic self's purpose was to inspire the Mamba Mentality in sports and anything else. His creative self's purpose was to tell the story behind the game of basketball and to practice attention to detail. His paternal self's purpose was to coach and parent his and other children to become role models in society." I'm still on my way to discovering what ALL my purposes are. With time, they'll naturally crystallize in front of me.
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