Existential crisis: if you don’t find the right path, look within yourself

Do you feel lost? Do not you know what to do with your life? There are people who at a certain moment feel that the direction they are taking makes no sense at all.. In fact, no path they can choose seems to have it and they become desperate in their countless failed attempts to achieve a change that will take away that feeling. There is no future, there are no goals or objectives. They are lost.

All of us, at some point have been those people, have felt as if we were at a dead end. It is a situation in which we detect, at the same time, a great inner emptiness: nothing outside, little inside. However, although we insist on seeing blame everywhere, the truth is that We have reached this point and we have entered into it.

An opportunity to rediscover yourself

When you don’t know what to do with your life, when you have reached that point where you can’t find a possible way out, it doesn’t matter the anguish, the anxiety, the desire you have to get out of there. None of that is going to work for the moment. There is something you have to do: rediscover yourself.

At what point have you focused on others and forgotten about yourself? When have you stopped asking yourself what you really want to do? Since when did what to do with your life become the last priority? The way we live urges us to put ourselves on autopilot to act as if we were robots, avoiding being aware of the present moment.

Now that you find yourself at that dead end, where you don’t know what to do with your life, stop. It is the perfect moment for you to be aware of yourself and what is around you.. So that you can reconnect with the world and also with yourself.

Your desires, your desires, what truly motivates you will be present to point out all those objectives that you have, but that for a long time you have not wanted to see because you have strayed from the path. You think there is no way out, when the solution is within you. Motivation comes from yourself, but to do this you have to know what you want.

It is true that at first the reaction when you don’t know what to do is to spin around, kick your feet, try to run in all directions as if you were a runaway horse. Nevertheless, There has to come a point where you realize you have to stop. in order to be aware of everything mentioned above.

If you don’t know what to do with your life, start accepting reality

This is a very important step to be able to benefit from everything said above. However, you are also likely to realize that accepting reality is what led you down that dead end.

We tend to live with different expectations about how things should turn out.. I finish my degree, I find a job, then the love of my life with whom I will have children and live very happily. Seems perfect, right? The ideal to which many people aspire. However… what if everything goes wrong?

The expectations you may have do not guarantee that the seasons you are going to encounter will be those. Most likely, problems, difficulties and adversities will arise that will make you frustrated, angry and refuse to accept that on many occasions what happens does not meet your expectations.

When we reach a point of great indecision, it may be the time to consult with a professional. With it we will discover if what we have to do is go back to locate the intersection where we got lost or if, on the contrary, the solution is to look for more alternatives to move forward at the same intersection where we have gotten stuck. Many times, whether we end up choosing one option or another will depend on the price we are willing to pay to try to achieve one goal or another.

There are times more favorable than others for us to experience this existential crisis.crisis

In many moments of change, when we move from one stage to another, we can feel lost. Something that is natural and that in principle does not have to scare us. However, if this happens, We have to prevent the feeling of restlessness from leading us to abandonment. Moments of change are also moments for intelligence and patience, to decide wisely, but also to make the chosen option with confidence. Whatever we choose, there will be no shortage of people telling us that we are making a mistake.

Whether going back or looking for other alternatives, every situation has a way out. Sometimes logical and predictable, other times surprising, random and enigmatic. For the first it is worth working, but for the second, as we said before, not letting ourselves be defeated by restlessness: the most opaque blindfold in the face of opportunities.

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