Wanting Your Life to be Different
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Each period of your life is accompanied by a mood or an atmosphere. And in each segment of time, you are being shown something either about yourself or about your life.
Each period is defined by a theme. For example, you could be working on something, you could be working through something, or you could be in the process of being changed by something. Although often you aren't aware of this process, so it would be more accurate to say that part of your life is working to change you, or something in your life is changing around you.
An important part of this process is something that you do by yourself. It's a specific thing that you think about what's happening in your life. And that is, you think that you want your life to be different in some way, or in many ways. And it could be the small things in your life that you'd like to change, or it could be one of the main parts of your life.
And this is important. It's a thought that you will have many times in your lifetime, and it's a thought that you need to have. It's important because it affects how you live your life. If you are wanting something different from what you've got, then this affects how you feel about what you are doing, and you can't commit fully to what is happening in that area of your life.
But this feeling is also what you need. It drives you forward and motivates you to carry on searching. It's the thing that keeps you on your toes as you wait for an opportunity to grab something different. If you were happy with all areas of your life, then you wouldn't keep striving to improve it, you would give up and settle for what you've got. But, unfortunately, it's natural to want change.
And change is good. What you need in your life now is different from what you will need in your life next week or next year. And once you've got all that you need from a particular set of circumstances, you will move on. You are building up your experiences and as you progress, each change that comes, or that you make, should be seen as a development leading towards your own betterment.
Your life also involves the many people who are in it, and you get something from each of them. And some of what you get is not what you want, but it is always what you need. You need people to annoy you or to rub you the wrong way. You need them to make you question yourself and give you stress or give you things to worry about.
But, of course, you don't want any of those things. When someone makes trouble for you, it's difficult to see any reason how it could be good for you or why it's necessary for you. But you would benefit from knowing that you won't have something different until you have finished internally processing the experience you are going through, and that it was good for you. Good because it changed you. It made you stronger, more patient, braver, or less selfish. Good because it's not about how you feel about it, but about what it's doing for you.
Now let's look at what you want to be different in your life because although you have what you need right now, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't have an ideal in your mind of what you want that particular part of your life to turn into. It may even be that you want parts of what you do every day to be different. This could include your job, how you spend your time, or how much freedom you have to do what you want to do.
But here, it's important to check your motivation for why you want something to be different. Happiness is not a goal, of course, but being in a place where you are more content, and in a position to focus less on your own needs is really where you want to be. There will be times when what you want becomes what you need, but that's the ideal. Right now, look at what your situations are giving you, and what that is doing to you. Then you can see how your life is working for you.