Did you start 2022 with no direction, no purpose?

At the beginning of the year I was feeling aimless, I was lost. I didn't know what to do in my job. It was as if I had lost my purpose. It's really uncomfortable to feel that way. I would sit at the computer and I didn't know what to write, what to do. I was wasting time on social networks, but the traditional ones, not the Hive ones. If at least it had been here, there wouldn't be much of a problem, suddenly I would have monetized my boredom and my existential emptiness, but no, it was Twitter, Facebook and YouTube that consumed my hours.

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What was wrong with me, why did I feel that way?

I'm a very emotional, passionate guy. Ambivalent. Today I can be energetic, in a week I look like a sloth. It's not always this, but every once in a while I'm like that. But this time it was more than a change of mood or energy. What was happening was that I had lost my ikigai, that is, my purpose in life. That which keeps us active, working, attentive, unwilling to give up.

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Fuente

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When we lose our ikigai or worse, when we don't have it, life goes by in slow motion. There is no motivation, any time is good to do nothing, any activity is excellent to kill time. The ikigai is a guarantee of energy, desire, passion, reason to continue despite the adversities. But I had lost it or at least I seemed to have forgotten it and that led me to a period of lethargy, of a personal limbo where there was no spark or emotion.

What did I do? Nothing, just not despair. Search inside myself, dust off my life intentions, go back to the point where I went astray. But it also helped me a lot to talk to someone, in this case my wife @carmary. I told her how I felt (she had already noticed, obviously). And she told me to talk, that she would listen to me and try to help me clear up that turbulence I had in my head.

I felt much better. It was as if I started to see things better. I resumed my activity and I started with what I considered most important and that was to resume my project @elcomentador. Since three days ago I am active again in Hive and with more enthusiasm than before.

When you feel this way as I did, do the following:.

1. Don't despair.
2. Look inside yourself and analyze what you are feeling.
3. Talk to someone.
4. Jump in without delay as soon as you see a slight change in your mood.

It's always a pleasure to share my vision of things with my followers. And it's always a pleasure to read your comments. Has something like what I told you in this post ever happened to you? What do you do or have you done to overcome that lethargy?

Thanks for visiting my blog. See you next time.