Who Are You if You Don’t Have Your Job?
It might just have been a total coincident that many of those who came to coaching were seeking for a ‘true meaning’ of life, as if none of the meanings a human life has granted them was worthy enough. One young lady was in utterly despair, who claimed that the ‘the guilt of emptiness’ made her want to hide herself and did not dare to look straight into anyone’s eyes. Another gentleman in his early twenties had listed all the social and environmental crises he could think of but could not decide which one to set his heart on. In the journey of coaching them, I could not help wondering why it has become so strenuous for bright young things today to find meanings in their lives? An inspiration came from a kitchen chat with my mum when I asked how she set life goals at a young age. Born just a few years after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in the 1950’s and grew up through the Culture Revolution, she said that at that time one did not need to look for meaning...