Putting food on the table is required, and parents have a tough job to do to make sure their kids are fed. “Why is this space this way, what have you done to degrade my experience!” If you can’t assert control at work, you do it at home with an iron fist because you want to heal your Ego at the expense of your family. That looks like getting yelled at by the boss, having a shitty day, going home and seeing the first person or pet in sight and taking your bad day out on them. If you internalize the pain and forget to heal your wounds, you may end up unintentionally bleeding on people in your life. It’s hard to extract passion and purpose from pain. American royalty Queen Dolly Parton tells us “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” Sometimes we get bogged down in careers we don’t like doing missions we disagree with surrounded by co-workers who are rarely relatable. Thankfully few guardians are needed to protect population centers leaving most free to find their duty. Sure, it may be an extreme example to teach kids, but most of their religious stories are pretty epic. If he shirks his duty, his family could very well die so the consequences for his refusal to participate are quite steep. Whether he disagrees with war or not, it needs done for the world to be in order. He needs to be an archer in the upcoming battle to protect his family. In it, Krishna talks Arjuna the archer out of a panic attack and reminds him of his life’s duty. The Bhagavad Gita is a wonderful book that talks about duty. Admission is limited and the coursework is tough, but you get to create something from nothing. We wanted to take the advanced course, so off to the college of Earth. Every single one of us were put here to do different things that we decided before we arrived in this realm. I like the Buddhist interpretation of dharma, or life’s purpose, when it comes to discovering your duty. This is a tough topic to talk about since so many people have differing definitions.
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