What if you were to tell the Taxi Driver the locations, addresses or destinations you don't want to go?
How far would he take you? What is going to be his likely response towards you?
Without even realizing it many of us have a similar approach in and towards life! They think about, talk about, feel sad/hurt/afraid about the things/experiences they don't want in life.
But they don't do that only when it comes to the future, they have a similar approach towards their past. They spend their time complaining, blaming others, interpreting past situations in victimizing ways, feeling sad about their current life circumstances.
They expect others to change in order for their life to change.
Purpose & Meaning of Life #11
Taxi Driver of your Life Thought Experiment
So what if we would look at Life as if it were that a Taxi Driver!?
What would you ask of Life?
Where would you want Life to take you?
Possible Choices:
1. Future Locations, Experiences, Meanings or Destinations
Would you continue to waste you time and Life's time tell life about the locations, experiences meanings or destinations you don't want to go?
Or would you tell Life about the locations, addresses or destinations you actually want to go?
Where would you like to go?
What would you like to do?
With whom would like to spend your time?
What would you like to achieve?
Some people might be afraid that they won't like the destination! They look for and wait to find the perfect location, address or destination! But how would you know that something is perfect? Usually there's always something better. And if you wait for perfection you'll most likely have wasted your time.
What if instead you would have an Experimental approach!? Instead of certainty search for your best Guess.
At this point in time what are some of the locations, addresses or destinations you Think, Feel Assume you would like if you would have them?
Then go there, have a look around, taste it, feel it! If you like it stick around, have more of it. If you don't then go somewhere else. Run another experiment!
Other people are afraid that if they choose to go to one location they will miss or loose other location they would also like to visit. They tend to get stuck waiting for the perfect decision that't will prevent them from loosing anything.
Well my friends that's unlikely to happen. So you need to ask yourself if you if you are willing to wait too long and loose everything by not acting or take action and Gain at least 1,2,3,....n experiences?
Read more about this type of situations here: Decision Making, Buridan's Ass 🐴, FOMO and the Rabbits 🐇.
We have to realize that's part of Life's setup.
Life it's kind of a huge smorgasbord full of delicious choices.
There are time constraints too.
You have to say no to some good choices in order to say yes to great choices.
In doing some choices you still can go back and take another route to experience the remaining choices. In other cases that won't be possible.
So make sure which is which and it you learn from your decisions with each new choice you'll get better at it.
2. Past Locations, Experiences, Meanings or Destinations
Whether you like or not from time to time you'll think about your Past. You'll replay on the screen of your mind various Locations, Experiences, Meanings or Destinations.
But please be aware that:
- within your past you have stored various types of experiences: some enjoyable other not so;
- although the experience / event itself already happened and you can't do much about that you can do a great deal about you attitude towards those events;
Would you continue to waste your and Life's time complaining, blaming others, interpreting past situations in victimizing ways, feeling sad about your current life circumstances?
Will you continue to choose to go Locations, Experiences, Meanings, Events from your Past to replay Hurt, Frustration, Anger, Fear, Stuck or will you choose to go play Enjoyable, Fun, Empowering Locations, Experiences, Meanings, Events?
Would you continue to use you Past as an excuse, justifications for a bad present and worse future or will look at your Past as a learning opportunity for a great Present and a Greater Future?
Are you continue to use the Meaning, Interpretations emulated from others that kept you in a victimizing past or will you create new Empowering Meanings and in doing so recreate your Past?
3. Stuck and / or Confusing Moving with Achieving
Other people either go in a Taxi Cab and stay stuck because they don't know where they want to go or they keep moving in circles.And because there's some activity, because they feel that they are doing something, they are sweating, getting tired they have a false sense of achievement.
So ask yourself if you're mistaking Doing Something with Achieving Something?What does need to happen for you to get unstuck?What do you require/need for you get moving towards new Locations, Experiences, Meanings, Events?
4. Go to and Follow other's people Maps & Directions
Some people get in the Taxi Cab of life and even though they are moving, getting places, achieving still they feel empty inside, they lack a sense of fulfillment. They might even feel resentment, frustration, confusion and so on.
Why? Because at some point in their life they have assimilated Maps/ Scripts about the World that made sense for other people and they might assumed that they will work for them too.
Now without even realizing it they are acting upon those Maps/Scripts without getting what they were hopping for.
