About Something

We all want our lives to be about something.  If we write, we want it to be about something others want to read.  If we sing, we want it to be about something people want to hear.  If we do, we want it to be something important, useful, helpful, meaningful.  And the pride in us wants to be recognized for it at least a little bit - just enough to know what we're about is that about which we are supposed to be.

Unless we are particularly prideful, even that is not the most important thing.  Whether we feel deep down inside that as an individual one is serving a purpose - is about something - is really what matters and what others may or may not have to say about it is of little consequence.  Am I fulfilling my destiny?  Doing what I'm fated to do?  Am I answering my calling?  At the very least, am I not being a waste of space?

So how do you know?  What's the measure, the rule, the method to evaluate these things?

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Though I'm pretty sure I can answer "yes" or "sort of" to some of the "am I" questions, if I figure it out for sure how to know or evaluate, I'll let you know.  If you know, please be kind enough to share.