I like this thread a lot, along with all the sharing of ideas.
What i know to be concrete truth for me, i realize is made up of powdered circumstance, and the wet soup of genetic material and neurology, hardened into this vessel my spirit inhabits. As such, i know that i am here more than anything to experience - let life take me to those glorious heights of joy, love and contentment, or fall to the lows of regret, self loathing, and fear, but its okay. I stopped feeling anxious when i gave myself full permission to feel so, same with depression, id say “if this is what im feeling, then feel it,” id let it consume me until i thought thered be nothing left, and then still, i am, but its like those things cannibalized themselves i guess, or the part of me that was those things. Its like those silly fear mongering end of the world theories - i always say my world as i know it here will end with my death - so what if its a comet, a nuke, aliens, or a school bus smattering me on its bumper?
But i know for now my calling/purpose lies in working with the spirit - mine and others’, they that inhabit human shells - or not, no longer or never. And i like it so much, even if the mainstream marks me as weird for it. But then didnt they always? or at least often? The witches, soothsayers, holy men, hermits, priests/priestesses, were they not always cast in some way to the outside on the fringes? And after so long, i realize i like it here - the borderlands, where i live physically between the wild and the city, and spiritually between the flesh and the ethereal.
I consider how much my life prepared me to reject what society expected, how many times i had to tell the structures to fuck off, or how often life tried to break my spirit, but it just acted like a whetstone and sharpened my steel - grit for my soul. i am undeniably and unashamedly myself, and im glad to go through this life as so, and let go to it - to
myself, and be open where i might take me.
I think its a glorious thing to question ones purpose, and to be open to an answer that might change again and again.