Is this it?
One could say that I’ve had what we consider a good life: A loving family, loving parents, understanding brothers and sister, cool friends and freedom. I studied what I wanted to study, I worked in what I wanted to work on and so on.
After years of working as a front end developer (fancy terminology for “making websites”), I achieved a good level of success, I had a good salary and good life, I went to music festivals, I travelled, I lived by myself… but I still felt that there was something missing. I didn’t feel what I thought I would feel when I would “achieve success”. Although I was happy I didn’t feel fulfilled. So I started a self discovery journey, searching for true inner satisfaction.
After some personal development workshops, such as the Enneagram, Sexual De-conditioning and Circling, I found out that I really love interacting with people, instead of staring at a computer monitor writing code. It was after integrating my experiences in a tantra workshop that I found out that I really enjoy interacting with other people, talking, interacting, touching, connecting. I realised I was missing this human aspect in my job, and for the first time after 20 years of being a computer geek, it didn’t feel like I was in the right place.
It was then when I “connected the dots” and realised that my life was leading up to this: at age 14 I did a Pranic Healing level 1 program and started doing meditation weekend retreats, at age 21 I visited Sai Baba’s ashram in India, at age 23 I did the Enneagram workshop, at age 34 I started doing Circling and at 35 I did the tantric workshops. It was obvious that throughout my life the universe had already shown me some signs that connecting with others was my real path in life and throughout this time it was also putting Life Coaching in front of me every few years. So I decided to commit to what I already felt inside, I decided to quit my job, take some time off to travel the world with my wife and daughter.