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One good clue as to whether you are living your true
life is how much you fear death. Do you fear death a lot,
just a little, or not at all?
“When you say you fear death,” wrote David Viscott,
“you are really saying that you fear you have not lived
your true life. This fear cloaks the world in silent
suffering.”
When mythologist Joseph Campbell recommended
that we “follow our bliss,” many people misunderstood
him. They thought he meant to become a pleasure-
seeker, a selfish hedonist from the “me generation.” In-
stead, he meant that in order to find out what your true
life could be, you should look for clues in whatever makes
you happy.
What gets you excited? In the answer to that ques-
tion, you’ll discover where you can be of most service.
You can’t live your true life if you’re not serving people,
and you can’t serve people very well if you are not ex-
cited about what you’re doing.
What makes you happy? (I know I already asked,
but the fear that “cloaks the world in silent suffering”
comes from not asking that question enough times.)
In my own professional life I have finally found that
teaching makes me happy, writing makes me happy, and
performing makes me happy. It took me many years of
unhappiness to finally reach the point of despair neces-
sary to ask the question: What makes me happy?
I was the creative director for an ad agency and I
was making a good deal of money producing commer-
cials, meeting with clients, and designing marketing
strategies. I could have done this type of work forever,
but my horrible fear of death was my clue that I was not
living my true life.