The Meaning of Life with Dr. Bob

I write for EzineArticles.com as you can see by the hype to the right. The people behind EzineArticles are very good about providing statics to help the authors who submit articles. Most recently we authors all received the November figures. The one article of mine that consistently draws the most views has to do with life phrases. Phrases that sum up what life is all about. Hence, the meaning of life.

So, I am going to start a ten part series with today’s blog post using those life phrases.

Acknowledge Your True Self.

We learn very early in life that to get along, indeed, to survive, we need to fit ourselves into the molds that others present to us. Yes, we start out by crying when we are hungry or need our diapers changed. Someone usually responds to these needs of ours. But we soon discover that we need to do something in return.

It could be a smile when we are cleaned and the cleaner needs a reward for the effort. The cleaner makes a sound or sounds indicating satisfaction or love . The cleaner and the cleaned are reinforced when there are smiles all around.

If we want to make the football team or the cheerleading squad, we must perform as specified. If we want the raise at work, we must meet the required conditions. If we want to keep a personal relationship intact, we act as is needed to preserve that connection. You get the picture.

But are we acting as we really are? Or are you playing a role that the play may go on as dictated by the script? If you are play-acting, then you are

not true to yourself. You are true to someone else. That can be good. That can be bad.

Fulfill your own expectations. Take relationships for example. You are in a friendship but as it develops you come to realize that your partner in the friendship tries to manipulate you. The other person wants you to do things their way. And they make it clear that it’s their way, or the highway, for you. You then have to consider who you really are. Do you really want to do things the way your companion says? Maybe you do. If so, fine. But suppose you discover the ways your friend wishes you to act or speak are not really you?

You then must claim who you are, even if means losing the friendship. Why? Because you are being someone other than who you really are. You are violating your own integrity. That’s no way to be happy, the meaning of life.
So, acknowledge your true self. Be authentically you. Anything else is spiritual murder. Yes, it might be tough to lose a friend. But what is better, losing a friend or keeping your real self? I know you know the answer to that question. Start being your true self today.

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