Living Positively...or some other new age hippy stuff.

I've been noticing a trend lately online. It's possible I'm slow to the game. Or that it's just the things I'm reading. Or that it's the phenomenon of noticing those things that are forefront in your mind. But it seems like everyone is on this positive living, happy in the moment, find your inner self, discover your truth, live courageously, be zen kick.

I could say this is all a bunch of hippy new age stuff. But if you know me, that would just make that statement funny...I AM pretty hippy new age!! And, honestly, when I write about it, that is the first thing that comes to mind. But when I come across it and I read about it, I devour the words. My soul soaks it up like crusty bread and that last drop of delicious soup. That light of recognition snaps on and I inwardly perk up my ears. I get where these (mostly) women are coming from. I'm looking for the same stuff.

Ten years ago, I would have said dismissively and arrogantly that these people are just looking for God and they don't know it. But I honestly don't think that. My disillusionment with the religious establishment (that's a whole different post!) aside, I don't believe it's a soul's longing for a Higher Being or a Meaning of Life that's at work here. I'm not positive what it's all about. But I feel it. I feel that longing for more and that inner knowledge that there is more...and I'm going to find it.

For me, my more has whispers of helping others and tinges of succeeding for the sake of succeeding. There's a hint of I'll-show-you-world and a sprinkle of I'm-going-to-be-someone-I'm-proud-of. I want to be the people I admire. And the people I admire are making a positive difference in this world. So even if I never reach my goal and touch the prize, at least maybe I'll have made a positive difference somewhere.

But I know for others, their more is something else. Maybe it's being a mother. Or maybe it's being a teacher. Or a doctor, or a nurse, or an astronaut. Maybe it's running your own business. Maybe it's graduating from high school or college or graduate school. This is what I do know, though: You should go for it. You should do everything in your power to get your more. And while you're at it, live this life to its fullest, drink it to the last drop and live out every other new age hippy philosophy you can get your hands on. I know I'm going to.