Your impact on the world and your ANAM CARA
Posted on March 22, 2021 by Philomena Hoeltkemeier, One of Thousands of Career Coaches on Noomii.
As the Celts said: we all ned an "anam cara", a soul friend, who really sees us and understands us and helps us understand ourselves.
The impact people have, depends on their consciousness [what do I think?] And self-consciousness [being-aware-of-oneself]. For example, I could have thought: You don’t need to write articles with your thoughts about the world. Who should want to read this? There are well-known writers and journalists out there who are taken seriously, but most likely nobody here knows you!
But instead I thought to myself I am a person like everyone else, I can form important thoughts and I have a life of my own, from which new insights may arise or if they were all there, I can animate them with new words. Or maybe it will be old knowledge with old words that should still be said again. At least they flow out of me and thus they will be good for something.
Sometimes it is just about seeing things in a different light, encouraging ourselves to be active and at least thrive.
I was giving you this simple example of a thought process you know as well as I do. I am not so different from you, you are not so different from me. Although we all want to be unique, it is our sense of belonging that gives us the wholesome feeling we need. As the Celts said: we all ned an “anam cara”, a soul friend, who really sees us and understands us and helps us understand ourselves. We need to belong to someone. We need to belong somewhere. And we need to belong with our whole being, the mind belonging to the body, the body belonging to the soul.
Irritations in our lives disconnect us from ourselves and others. The worst that can happen is we stay disconnected. The best that can happen is that we use these irritations to remind ourselves of who we are, because especially in tough times, when everything is shaken, we need to be reminded what really matters. We are all alike in possible doubts and fears, but we differ in how much these fears were evoked and entertained in the past and how much we WANT to overcome them. We should never let doubts get in the way of our sense of belonging.
You belong. I belong. And where we belong is the place that makes us happy and the ones we want to see happy. This is as true for our job-life as it is for our private life, as ideally, they both belong together as one, as they stem from only one human being.
This is what I try to do in my work: being the anam-cara that you need for your mission, for a certain time period, until you are centered and aware of your wonderful self and where you (at this point in time) belong.
