I started to read the postsecret blog again yesterday, an online area where you can anonymously post your secrets to, usually on a postcard.  I like the postsecret idea and it has become a huge blog, and has even produced four books of these secrets.

I particularly liked the email dated 03/Jan/2008 that is under the posting of 30th December 2007 where someone decided that they were going to change their life.  They also declared that ”I’m not going into work today.  I hate my job… …I’ve felt for too long that my life has no purpose.  I’ve felt like I’m just here…and that anyone could replace me at any given moment.“ 

There are several things that strike me about the author of this post/email.  I wonder what their circumstances are that just allow them to change their life and to just not go into work today.  It seems like such an easy thing to say yet it is such a giant thing to do, I wonder if they actually did go through with it.  I think most people, at some point, declare that they hate their job and wonder what the purpose of their life is. 

I wonder what the purpose of many people’s lives are.  Are they just there because they are?  Or are they involved in some greater plan that is unfolding?  I, remain largely sceptical about choices and free will.  The more I try to choose the more things are chosen for me.