Purpose

I was having a conversation with a friend earlier this week talking about losing perspective on what's important in life, and not realizing what the purpose in life is, and not taking time to question things. It made me start thinking about my own life and how easy it is for me to lose perspective of what my purpose is, what's important, and what i'm supposed to be doing. I can get so caught up in the fast pacedness (I think I just made a new word) of life, of new changes, of everything the world throws at you, that it really does make it hard to stay focused. I think now is one of those times where I need to stop everything that's happening for a moment and get back the purpose in everything that i'm doing and make sure i'm still going the direction I want to. Why is it that we get so distracted and pulled awry so easily? I would think that if we know where we want to go and who we want to be that nothing would be able to shake us from it. And yet, I'm sure of where I want to go and who I want to be, but things still seem to be able to slightly shake me from that direction... Why do some things in life just seem to take over without us even noticing it? Then, all the sudden we're going a completely different direction from when we started. I don't really know why. And I don't know why i'm able to forget so fast and easily all those things. But, I do know that I am so thankful for the people in my life, (mainly my mom) who keep me grounded and keep reminding me to take time and look at my life, look at my direction, and urge me to make sure I realize the important things in life. I'm pretty sure I would be a crazy mess without her. 
I know another thing that helps me is to take time to just sit and meditate on life, write in my prayer journal, or read something thought provoking. After I get done doing that, it seems like i'm refreshed and ready to keep on keeping on. It's those times when I let life get too busy, that's when I lose perspective, I lose the important things in life, and what my purpose is. I think sometimes too that we get too preoccupied in looking at the past or the future  that we forget, that what we're doing NOW is making the past and preparing our future. Maybe if I looked more at the present time and not so much at the past or the future I would be more aware of important things that are now, and where i'm heading now, and what i'm supposed to be doing now.
Anyways... just thoughts that happen to be stirring around my head this week. 


- Gabrielle :]