How Discovering Ikigai Transformed My 70s into the Most Vibrant Decade of My Life
Why I stopped searching for a single, life-defining purpose
For most of my life, I believed purpose had to be something big. A career that changed the world. A lifelong passion that gave my days meaning.
If I didn’t have that, I assumed I was missing something—that I just hadn’t figured it out yet. So I kept searching, convinced that one day, I’d finally land on the thing that would make everything click into place.
But in my 70s, I realized ikigai wasn’t about finding one grand mission. It was about embracing the small, meaningful moments that were already part of my life.
