We choose how we will give our lives meaning. We all know that we each need to find our own drumbeat. But one of the things we have largely lost is time to think and feel. The American “culture” is almost completely given over to seducing us into being “entertained”: distracting us from what is most important, and then creating substitutes that we need to buy.
Whether it persuades us to focus on TV, film, or romantic fiction to rest from the difficulties of our lives, to play video or on-line games or to stuff our ears with music, or to attend to the media with its escalating volley of advertising and “news” packaged as often horrifying entertainment, 95% of all that noise is simply a distraction. In fact, there is no product that can help us find ourselves. Only relationships, ideas and experiences, plus our own intense desire, can help us.
Bottom line, every single choice we make either nourishes the discovery and fulfillment of our purpose - or it distracts us.
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Meaning & Purpose 
