What Should I Do?

What Should I Do?

What am I here for? Am I living in such a way, that I can die without regrets? How much of what I do is compromise? Do I keep postponing what I “really” want to do until conditions are more favourable?

Asking such questions interrupts indulgence in the comforts of routine and shatters illusions about a cherished sense of self-importance. It forces me to seek again the impulse that moves me from the depths, and to turn aside from the shallows of habitual patterns. It requires that I examine my attachments to physical health, financial independence, loving friends. For they are easily lost; I cannot ultimately rely on them. Is there anything I can depend upon?

It might be that all I can trust in is my integrity to keep asking such questions as: Since death alone is certain and the time of death uncertain, what should I do? And then, to act on them.                                         

Stephen Bachelor: Buddhism Without Beliefs

These questions have been my guiding stars ever since I read Bachelor’s book, and they keep on being it. 

My overall answer is: Choosing the life I want to live (again and again),  Living it with as much awareness as possible,  Not postponing things that are important, Accepting whatever comes my way, and - of course - Enjoying life as much as I can, under the given circumstances :-)