Here's my most recent favorite. So, anyone who's been on any sort of formal personal growth path (including being about to graduate and talking to career counselors), has been asked the question "If you had all the money you'd ever need, what would you do?" or "What would your perfect day look like?" or "If you didn't have to work, what would you do with your life?" I'm no exception, and I have a laundry-list of pre-fab answers to these questions I've heard a hundred times. Kind of defeats their usefulness. Bhadra threw me the question in a whole new way, though... she asked:
"Imagine you didn't have your childhood, and all your life up to this point. If it were all just starting today, what do you want to do with it?"
See, all my prefab answers were based around things I've found joy in in the past - music, theater, facilitating growth in others, travel... but this isn't the past anymore. This question has the strange effect of requiring a deep awareness of intuition and the call of my spirit, right here, right now, in real time. And my being so stumped at the question seems to show me that's not something I'm so practiced at. It cracks my egg open. I love it.
If it's all new, right now... what do you want to make with it?
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