Doing What I Love

Isn't it so, that at least once or twice a day, we have to do something we don't love doing? There are things that just need to get done. We have been conditioned that that's what life is all about, gritting your teeth and doing that which has to be done.

That premise has held true for me for way too long. For a very long time, I didn't even know what I would love doing. I'm not only speaking of vacation or free time events and activities, but also professionally. I add the word "profession" to the mix and feel the bitter juices flow. There is no profession that allows me to do that which I love doing - all day long. That has to do with my nature. I don't like repetition and I don't like doing the same thing for a prolonged amount of time. I like diversity, ever changing things. I like this and that and that and that other thing too. I want it all. It took many years of searching to find that which I love doing most and turn it into a "profession". Turned out that the moment it became a profession that was marketable, it took something out of the mix and it almost turned sour for me. I've pondered on what it would take to make a living with that "profession" of mine and to this day, I can't say I've been successful. There have to be other sources of income for me, in order to keep doing that which I love.

I've taken it a step further. Now, I'm disengaging from the word "profession" and what it means to me altogether and I'm just simply doing what I love. As often as I can manage. I have stopped worrying whether it would eventually pay my bills. I have stopped worrying whether I would ever gain professional status or anything of the sort. It has become quite simple and with a renewed gusto, I simply do what I love and if there is money flowing my way or any other ways of balancing out the giving and taking aspects of the exchange, I gracefully accept. Only now does it feel like I'm in the flow of abundance. Any and all thoughts on "how to make money" have been replaced with "I will always be provided with what I need". The worry factor has never been this low!

I understand that doing what I love seems like a privilege. It is perhaps a hard earned privilege. Most certainly, I feel, it's natural. Why would I incarnate to go do something I don't love ? That makes absolutely no sense to me. I understand that financially, certain bases have to be covered. So if a "mainstream" job that isn't so lovely needs to be held, I'm all for common sense (for a time). However, I also feel that it is very important to nourish the soul by at least spending some time each day doing what I love. It is something that we can all do at least 10 minutes of doing something we love. Until that becomes a habit. I feel that we need to re-establish the flow of that as best as we can in order to make it a reality. I feel we owe it to ourselves to spend at least some time doing that which we love doing hopefully without judgment of ourselves or worse yet, guilt. Just because! Doing what we love is not just a privilege, it is our birth right and I think it's high time we claim it.