An Extraordinary Life Has So Many Sides It Defies Geometry

When I was in the corporate world (14 years or so), I enjoyed many years of what would widely be considered a significant financial reward.

I earned a base salary (over 6-figures), a commission (a few times more than my base), and a bonus (a generous five figures).

When people asked me if I enjoyed my work, I replied with a canned response, reserved for everyone who asked me this question,

“I don’t like my job, but I like what my job affords me.”

All that money I was making went into things and expensive dinners; I was seeking some kind of meaning for spending the majority of my time doing something I did not like doing.

I was the epitome of the Viktor Frankl quote,

“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”

This was me in a nutshell.

I dreamt of more; I had ideas and passions I wanted to fulfill. I wanted desperately to create something, an invention, a screenplay, my own business.

Something where I was the boss, and more importantly, I didn’t have to report to anyone.

What I truly wanted was freedom, creativity, and passion.