AES109 Reason for Being

Just a few days ago I was having a full-blown existential crisis, I absolutely had no idea who am I and why am I even living and breathing on this planet. A sense of purpose was just not in me at that moment. The world has its way with timing, the next day after my existential crisis I had to make an ikigai for my class. I’ve made one before, but every once in a while we need an update right? There I was sitting staring at a piece of paper hoping for a new search for a reason for being. 

After a long process of thinking, I've come to the conclusion that my reason for being is “Being an open-minded individual in order to find a balance between my needs and the needs of my community, as an act of effort to raise awareness of people around me about social issues with maximalizing PR/Marketing of my work.”

I find it very important to combine what I love, what Im good at, what I can be paid for, and what the world needs. And ikigai is the right method to combine all of them. My activism and my writing are the core part of my passion, I aspire to be a writer that can express my activism through my writing. Expressing activism through writing fiction is one of the goals that I aspire to achieve, most of the time fiction makes things more understandable, it puts things into the right perspective. 

So I guess my reason for being is mostly writing and activism, all I ever wanted to do or wanted to be is be a useful and impactful person. And I know I can’t achieve that without expressing my thoughts, I think a thought can go a long way. My thought could be an input to making my community a better place, so expressing that thought becomes an essential action. What Im going to do is observe, think, express, discuss, and make the thought real.