Who are you and who do you want to be?
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Who are you and who do you want to be?
The world wasn’t made for your shoulders.
The question ‘What do you want to do when you grow up?’ is put to so many young people, from a conversation starter to a probing at what type of person you are, to an opportunity to provide advice of what you should and shouldn’t do. The question can be asked from many different types of people, teachers, parents, family friends, relatives or peers.
It is a question that can come with a lot of weight and expectation, but equally from people who may not be satisfied where their paths have taken them.
In the past, I enjoyed talking with strangers over people I knew. Why? Because our conversations could be based on the spectacular-ness of what connected us in that moment. Be it an elevator ride, a cool outfit or a fabulous hair day rather than the ‘big conversation’ fuelled by expectation about my life plan.
As someone who completed school in year 10 to work and gain experience in business settings, I found that a lot of other people were very concerned with my life and what I was going to do. My family and teachers would urge me to stay in school to finish year 12, even telling me I would regret it if I left now. Perhaps this came from a place that they were raised to believe this is the only way, however, it was not the path I felt to take. There is also the element of pressure upon students to finish year 12, no matter the cost. Often the cost is that on the body, with the extreme pressure taken into the body causing unsettlement, stress and dis-ease. “More than 40% of Year 12 students report symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress that fall outside what is considered the normal range for this age group.”[1]
The factor of being in the school setting can make it far worse, when everyone around is full of stress and bottled up expectation. If one is completing year 12 with a purpose, if the job or career they feel drawn to requires it, then this purpose can support to maintain focus and strength, and keep things simple. Ultimately, it is a crime for people to think they are not smart, when true intelligence comes from the Universe.
When asking the question ‘What do you want to be when you grow up? raises a larger point: do we value the connection we have with young people and our integral role in loving and supporting them to connect to their purpose in life? This purpose is not singular but is all about every aspect of life, not just a career or study path. It is full, whole rounded and covers how you make the bed, how you exercise, how you nourish your body with food and the quality of sleep to how you work, how you view your purpose at work and appreciating the unique qualities you bring to the relationships you have at work, with your friends and with your family circles. These elements feed back into your life, making it limitlessly rich.
Often the question ‘What do you want to do when you grow up?’ can come with a flavour of advice from the person asking, or a want to live vicariously through the young person who has, in their eyes, a ‘bright future ahead’. It is certainly true that young people have vast and unlimited potential. However, living a life to fulfil the expectations of others or your own will leave this power untapped.
Equally, everyone has a vast and unlimited potential, no matter their age. Age is a marker of how many times we have completed the cycle of going around the sun, and not an ‘expiry’ or ‘use by’ date, or a stopwatch that is counting down, down, down. To view life like this is very diminishing of its true purpose – which is for everyone, no one excluded, to reconnect to who they truly are, to the burning love in their inner-heart, and to know the connection with the Universe and the stars, the multidimensionality that is our true way.
Only by reconnecting to the Ageless Wisdom have I been able to realise it’s not about what I do but the quality of how it’s done.
The Ageless Wisdom is a compass for every young person.
It is practical in its wisdom and application of wisdom, as it is for everyone, no one excluded. It provides the ‘why’ behind life and what goes on, from the understanding that ‘everything is energy, therefore, everything is because of energy’ (Serge Benhayon, circa 1999) as a 101 basic principle. It is designed to be lived, walked and spoken, not in big fancy words that are empty of meaning but with words that spark a rich connection to who we truly are, words that ring true and hit home.
It is a living science that is not about perfection, proving yourself or being good, but all about living in a way to receive realisations from the Universe about the unfolding path we are all on, and having a rich connection to the body which is designed to be vibrant, glowing and move us through life with a spring in our step and exuberating love beaming in our hearts.
We are designed to work and bring our all to our jobs, no matter the field or industry: attending to life with full-heart, and no half-heartedness. It is also important to speak truth and express, to not keep anything inside when it is burning and bubbling like a volcano to be written, walked, sung, danced, typed, spoken and lived. Because everything is energy, everything we receive, our thoughts, ideas and dreams, are not actually from us, but either from Heaven or the Astral Plane. Heaven is the one true source and the Astral Plane is a copy of that, created in reaction. What we align to will affect the thereafter results, actions, words we speak, steps we take, careers we choose, jobs we apply for and friends we have.
It can be common for young people to build up walls and then act like they are okay or confident around other people. This okay-ness or false confidence is built upon an underlying insecurity, anxiousness or depression. It is the accepted normal to not always talk about how we are truly feeling, and this doesn’t mean not talking about seeming issues or problems. I’m not sure about you, but at times in my life I have spoken about my ‘problems’ or ‘what’s going on for me’ without actually talking about how I was truly feeling or sensing. Sometimes this was because I couldn’t put words to it. But if we focus on the foundations of expression, love and truth, there is far more space to express.
That is why it is very important that as a society we do not focus on ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ aka the ‘out there’ future, but the beautiful and strong foundations that we can build now.
To focus on aligning to Heaven, putting every bit of what we have into everything we do, embracing our jobs and bringing joy, authority and fun to them; which can be done in any moment and enriches life in every sense of the word.
Living this way guarantees that your future will be prosperous, when it is made about what you love, the fact that you are love, embracing what you are designed to do and working aligned to Heaven and your Soul: your future is covered.
Living this way is very fulfilling, enriching and makes you realise there is more to life than ‘me’. Connection, transparency and expression are key, and it supports us to break down the walls we have built over time to unfold the heroicness of us.
It’s not about not asking the question, but the quality in which you ask the question, and first making it about connecting with the young person and recognising their amazingness that is also alive within you.
Joke:
So, what do I want to be when I grow up?
Answer – aligned to Heaven, receiving from the Universe and living with God – aka an Accountant.
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