Follow Your Bliss (By Steve Goodier)

I have heard of a bus driver in Chicago who does just that. He sings while he drives. That’s right… sings! And I don’t mean he sings softly to himself, either. He sings so that the whole bus can hear! All day long he drives and sings.

He was once interviewed on Chicago television. He said that he was not actually a bus driver. “I’m a professional singer,” he asserted. “I only drive the bus to get a captive audience every single day. His ‘bliss’ is not driving a bus, though that may be a source of enjoyment for some people. His ‘bliss’ is singing. And the supervisors at the Chicago Transit Authority are perfectly happy about the whole arrangement. You see, people line up to ride his bus. They even let other buses pass by so that they can ride with the ‘singing bus driver’. They love it!

Here is a man who believes he knows why he was put there on earth. For him, it is to make people happy. And the more he sings, the more people he makes happy! He has found a way to align his purpose in living with his occupation. By following his bliss, he is actually living the kind of life he believes he was meant to live.

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Not everyone can identify a purpose in life. But when you do, and when you pursue it relentlessly, you will be living the kind of life you feel you were meant to live.