Samhuin seed thought : Ikigai A Reason for Being

In French you might say your raison d'etre, your reason for being.  It's rare to know this from a young age and sometimes just when you think you know what it is when you get there you realise it isn't it.
Which is a complex one, the drive to do more than just survive and be happy doing it.  Within the Japanese word there is a certain joy in finding this.  However, as usual, the internet explanations are simplistic.  Trying to soundbite a complex viewpoint.

Within the Gewessi world knotwork art becomes a mandala, the world is a complex weave and finding the thread of Ikigai for you and keeping it can feel like dancing on a knife edge, the various knots of life try to unbalance you. You become a hinge or unhinged within the pattern of the weave.
Which is where a spiritual structure can maintain your Ikigai so that it doesn't become lost in the noise of our society.
  My structure is yoga, meditation and celebrating the wheel of the year, my Ikigai is cycling, my wife and the drive to create - whether that be gardening or virtual systems it is the creative aspect that appeals.

Aesthetic of inner peace

It is important to understand your inner aesthetic & to find it.  This is not the aesthetic, or beauty, that the outer world tells you to appreciate but the one that you emotionally respond to.
The first thing you must do with any moment is to feel whether you like it...is the first sentence that my study of art teacher said. 
What is a moment?  It can be seeing the Mona Lisa for the first time, a vision of the sun setting or a digital landscape in a virtual world.
The key is to take that moment and fully enjoy it, commit it to your mind hoard of gladness.  Don't be distracted by the digital hum of our lives, put aside your personal obsessions be they physical, emotional or mental and gladden your soul by revelling in allowing your internet of the aesthetic.
Your aesthetic may not be someone else's, a bit like the joy my dog has in rolling in fox poo.  It's not something I want him to do but the unparalleled joy he has in that moment is enviable.