How Discovering Ikigai Transformed My 70s into the Most Vibrant Decade of My Life
Instead of focusing on what I should be doing, I asked myself what made me feel engaged and present. I found meaning in mentoring younger colleagues, in writing letters by hand, in tending to my garden with care instead of rushing through it like a chore.
The more I leaned into these everyday moments, the more alive I felt. Not because I had discovered some secret formula, but because I had stopped searching for fulfillment in the wrong places.
Yet for years, I had believed something entirely different about purpose—an idea that held me back for far too long.
