Born to Give

Its amazing how some people associate happiness with giving. They will relentless give, it gives their soul peace I assume. My inner scientist begs the question: what makes some of us born givers and some of us born takers? intriguing, a crucial human sentiment, is it not? Perhaps the animal kingdom has its own version of giving.

Perhaps perception is what beholds us; what if our perception dictates exactly how we feel, exactly the emotions we experience, yet to the giver, its merely their duty. They do not feel any different.

What does it take for you to be a "giver". In what capacity do you "give" - love, strength, support, advice, guidance? Are we giving enough? To give money is great, but is it really reciprocating the action you wish to conduct? Does it replace giving love, emotional support, a shoulder to cry on?

We as humans are all vulnerable at some stage in our lives. So how does giving really effect you and your world? Does the act of giving make you gain that much more strength and resolve? Does the act of receiving - always, make you feel the opposite?

To Give - it doesnt cost much. Yet it represents a whole new world. Are you giving anything away? A thought to ponder over..

Labelisation

Continuing from my last post of categorization being the death of daily life (socialising, work, play (activities), I have come to realise that we are living in a world where labelisation is everywhere.

What do I mean by Labelisation?

ok, so the first thing you ask or get asked at an event, cocktail party or at work is: "so what do you do"? Those 5 words are echoed throughout the world, no matter what culture, religion, age and geographical location we live in.

No wonder we suffer from mid life crisises - we get bogged into labelling everything in our life: be it at work, home, relationships. Why cant we just live, without having to resort to saying "oh I am a scientist", as if there is nothing else you do with your time?!

In my opinion, you aint going to get nowhere if we reduce yourselves to a mere label you wear on your sleeve. There is way more to life than meets this label - do you paint? do you exercise? do you think? do you blog? do you debate? do you love? yes ofcourse we all have interests that sit outside our 9-5 working days. We cook, we play with our kids, we bike, we get stressed, we email, we chat, we cry, laugh and even fart! Then why do these 5 words dominate today's culture so much? I cringe at the question each and every time. Because in my mind, one cannot be reduced to this label.

In a world of social media networks, networking, working lunches, breakfast meetings, collaborative meetings and innovation like never seen before, we cannot be labelled at every turn of our lives. Sure, you need a work to describe what you do FOR A LIVING? or do you need a word/subject to ensure you "belong" to a group/category, to ensure that your time has been well accounted for.

I propose a world where we ask this question: "so what do you (to live a life of passion?"? - now this to me rids the need to categorise and label ourselves into the "doctor", "engineer", "scientist", "journalist" boxes, allowing rather a continuum of responses, one which makes us all level minded,

..so we may respond by saying something much more of interest, something that really details what it is that we humans get upto during our "busy" times: "I do science, I blog, I bike, I volunteer in my local community, I tweet and facebook, I run my own firm, I write/journal, I work in the media communications industry"..

So next time we ask someone at a party "so what do you do", re-consider the lame responses, and start to formulate, if you will, a rather smooth collaborative speal of what it is that you really do (to live a life of passion)...

..so What do you do (to live a live of passion?)