Sep 9, 2010

Finding purpose

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”  Ghandi

I suspect this is true.  When I was in my final year of college, it became obvious that my intended career -- which I'd been preparing for, for four years, wasn't a good fit.   There were other factors that weighed in so that I felt very low, very discouraged.

Somewhere, somehow, perhaps in different words, the truth of Gandhi's statement -- needing to find my way through helping others -- shown as a guiding light in sending me off into a new career.  I took a nurses' training course with that goal in mind and never looked back.

I had discovered that real satisfaction hasn't a single selfish element.

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