2024-01-09
1 小时 3 分钟We need one another.
We need people who won't necessarily share our answers to the question of the good life, but they share our questions.
There is something uniquely powerful about community built around shared questions.
We have lots of ways of phrasing the question, right?
What is a life worth living?
Or what is a good life?
Or what is the shape of flourishing life?
But one way that I'm really starting to appreciate these days is what sort of life would be worthy of our shared humanity.
I think it's in part just because of that sharedness, right?
Of course there is something irreducibly particular and individual.
We're each going to come to our own answers.
But there's something powerful about as a group of people, a community convened just for a moment to take up this question with this shared question about can we think a little bit about the worthiness of our shared humanity?
How do I lean into that?
What's really the center of that?
So if you've ever heard the phrase midlife crisis, you might be wondering, what actually is that all about?
And why are so many people experiencing it, not in their thirties, forties, and fifties alone, but even in their twenties?
Turns out it's not a crisis of money, status, fame, accomplishment, power or prestige.
It's a crisis of meaning and purpose.
And we're increasingly realizing that we can't easily live without these things, which is why they are the focus of today's second installment of our January jumpstart series.
So how do we build a life of purpose and meaning?