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Does it really matter what we "do"?

“I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as making a ‘life.” Maya Angelou I spent so much time trying to figure out what to do. And it’s important to do that. Finding fulfilling work can change our life. And we need to do whatever it takes as we go through life to find the profession which resonates with us. But even when you find that fulfillment in a job, sustaining that fulfilling feeling can seem like a struggle. Most of your working life will be spent worrying about something that happened at work.  Our workplaces become the center where we leave a lot of our own energy behind. We feel depleted when we return back home and try to get back our lost energy from people at home - draining them in the process. Work becomes an enormously serious place and we can attribute a lot of our premature gray hair to work and the psychosomatic as well as physical changes it brings about by virtue of the stress and anxiety it brings about in our lives. What if I told yo