I have arrived back in good old Auckland, after a 12 hour bus ride yesterday. I still love that bus ride! When else do you get the chance to just sit with your thoughts or your mp3 player for 12 hours and not be expected to be doing anything else? No reading (makes me feel sick in cars), no TV, no conversation (being that I’m a dedicated solitary traveller :P) – just me and my *zone* for 12 hours straight. Not to mention the gorgeous and ever changing scenery. I love it!
One of the people I used to go to med school with (for those of you who don’t know me, I lasted a whole semester before deciding I was bored :P) is letting me stay in her room, because she is away for the summer. This place is a really great flat and her room is fantastic. I had the best sleep last night that I’ve had in ages! It’s going to be hard to relinquish it… 😛
Today I did a full day at my old work (as a medical typist). Earning money is good. It’s incredible how much easier life is when it takes you about 20 minutes to get to work, as opposed to near on 2 hours. Wish I had figured this out earlier – it explains a lot!
I tend to always have at least two books on the go at once. That way I have all moods catered for. Besides reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle at the moment (which I am SO into right now), last night I started a book called What Should I DO With My Life? by Po Bronson. It’s the collections of a writer who travelled around meeting people who had answered, in one way or another, that ultimate question – the question posed by the title. I’ve only read the introduction and the first chapter and I love it already.
The introduction contains one of my favourite quotes of all time (a slight dig at the self-help industry):
You want a step? Step one: Stop pretending we’re all on the same staircase.
I also love this sentence indentifying the recurring themes that appeared throughout his interviews with people who had found their purpose:
It’s not easy / It’s not supposed to be easy / Most people make mistakes / Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.
Somehow it makes it easier to know you’re not the only one. If it’s hard – well, at least it’s supposed to be hard. You are not an anomaly in not having it all figured out quite yet.
The first chapter also gave me much food for thought. If we were all handed a letter outlining our purpose and path in life at age 17 – would it really make things easier? Would we really want that? Or would we feel constrained, dictated to, cheated somehow, or filled with the urge to rebel? Maybe we want the search, the uncertainty, the mistakes, the journey. Maybe that’s what it’s all really about.
Anyway, if you haven’t read it – read it! I can’t wait to read more.
Yes! 
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