Have you ever heard about The Blue Zones? The Blue Zones refer to places where people tend to live longer, healthier and happier. David Buettner wrote a book about it. Why Theory, a popular youtube channel also started to go to places written by David Buettner in order to look for the reason why these people live longer in The Blue Zones area.
Okinawa and Nicoya are two of the blue zones. Okinawans believe in Ikigai, while Nicoyans believe in Plan de Vida. Both of these philosophy refer to the same point of view of life: Why I Wake Up In The Morning?
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on different occasion while doing photoshoot for our client
For me, the more I try to understand my self, to force my self to live life according to what makes me happy, to pursue a job that makes me happy, the more stubborn I am to stand in my believe, the more I ignore the standard of life that society try to picture, the more content I am.
Nowadays, I find my Ikigai in doing several things:
- My work as a nerve and restorative specialist (endodontist) makes me happy because I could meet a lot of people from different background, could try to understand their personalities, their stories, and their habit that makes them who they are and how it could affect their overall and dental health.
- My work in TumbuhSehat, a marketing & branding consultant company for healthcare providers I founded with my husband, makes me happy and very very excited to work everyday, because here I could meet a lot of new people (that is much more experienced than I am in ther expertise), I could make these strangers turn into friends, I could fullfil my passion in the creative world when we do photoshoot or videomaking, I could fullfil my passion in writing and science while we do storytelling and education for each of the brand (our clients).
- Me as a wife, a daughter, a sister, and a friend who always try to be available for every journey and story my loved ones are going through.
- Me as my own company who loves to walk, experience new places, new foods, loves to read and write, swim, doing yoga, enjoying art exhibition, watching art performance each and everyday.
I always wake up feeling excited, content, peaceful, full of hope and love, and ready for any surprises the world might bring.
For now, this is my Ikigai.
What is your Ikigai? What is your Plan de Vida? Why do you wake up in the morning?
