Award nights are big nights and I personally look forward to
the big stars flaunting the red carpet with their glamorous expensive dresses.
And of course once am awed with one of the gowns, it helps when the reporters
ask them who they are wearing, not that I am about to jump wagon and go
splashing on some designer rob that could feed my ‘village’, but it doesn’t
hurt to know.
The next big night this year is the Oscar’s and despite the
race controversy I will be hooked on. I have just been reading about how
instead of asking the celebrities who they are wearing, they will be asked about their purpose. What drives them to get up every day? Who
inspires them to make a difference in someone's life? How are they working to
change the world for the better? Uh that will make a night for good television because much as some of
them are really good at what they do I don’t know if they know what their
purpose here on earth is, speaking of which how would I fare answering the
same.
My purpose? Well, I
would say to make a difference but then again that sounds so cliché like the
beauty pageants standard answer “World Peace”
This takes me back to
when I was first asked a question to this regard; as a kid my mum and other
grown-ups always asked, “what do you want to be when you grow up” I can’t
remember what my earliest answer would have been but most probably any of the
following would have done- a teacher, doctor, lawyer …your typical white collar
jobs.
With time, once I
learnt more about the various careers my answer was always fixated to being a
journalist and at that age being a free bird exploring the world, I guess my
purpose was to be a happy, confident girl. And happy and confident I was, very
well rounded and achieving on the academic front; the empowered girl child in a
3rd world country but even that felt
innocuous and deep down I knew there must be more to my being here.
My inner resume has
always asked me if what I have on paper is enough. What is my impact on the
world besides waking up and doing what the world views as success? Just how do I flip the script?
Granted I don’t have
that much a following as the stars but even then what and who inspires me. Does
my being here matter? How am I making a difference? If I was gone tomorrow what
would my obituary read, would I be worth remembering 2, 5 years down the road.
One fact is I am important and I am here for a purpose. I have cast my net deep
and wide to find out for what exactly I am here for and I can sum it up in one
word Love.
My greatest weakness
is love; love for my family, for people I do life with, for the world, for
humanity-my sole purpose is love. I’m inspired by love and try to make a
difference using love. It is not for nothing that the great book says in 1 Corinthians
13:13, “Three things will last forever –faith, hope and love and the
greatest of these is love.” I busk
and glow in the glory of love and am happy to say I love and I am loved.
I don’t let life
simply unfold but try to influence it whenever I have control of the flow. Some
days I really feel good about being here, I smile to myself and whenever I can
whisper a thank you to the Omnipotent one; other times Life simply happens,
setbacks and major shifts in a direction I didn’t see coming but then again as
long as am here, I try to channel my energy to a positive space, to love and
when I do that I thrive.
So what is this thing
called life and are you letting it take over or are you making your mark on it.