We often talk about purpose as a reason for doing.

First, I need to find my purpose and then I’ll start doing something with my life which is in alignment (no pressure!)… But the other day during meditation I kept seeing this FR phrase “raison d’être” and thought… it’s a reason for “being” and not “doing”.

A good friend of mine asked me “can you exist without being of service to others?”. And then it hit home, my brain was hit with the million times when I’ve made excuses or justified doing something for others and said I cared about being kind to / helping/ empowering people but was I being a little over myself? Isn’t the point of life to exist and just by existing you are a gift to the world around you? For those who need, want, see, receive it… completely out of your control?

So… can my presence be enough of a present? Do I need to be in action, to serve others to justify being me? Or can I just *be*? Is *being* enough? Maybe one’s raison d’être isn’t something to be looked for or to be found but more something that already is. And one just has to stop and spend time with oneself to see it, to feel it, to receive it, to appreciate it, to love it. 

Have you taken the time to pause and find your reason for existing? Who are you when you are not “doing”?