Driving back to Redondo Beach on Easter Sunday, I saw a license plate I888888.  The only thing similar to this that I've seen was in 1993 or 1994, 888888L in Mountain View, CA parked next to me at a restaurant.  I took the message to be that this was my present state of awareness.  09 88 88 88.  Hmm ... this could also be 009 888 888 looked at a different way.  007 is Special Agent James Bond.  I wonder what 009 signifies?  Source twice guiding 9:The Hermit.  And then 888 twice.  That is the base 16 version of the final four of my SSN = 2184.  There is something that I am missing here.  988 has been significant to me for many years as well, ever since my yearly salary topped 98.8K.  I still see it often.  988(16) = 2184 + 256 = 2440.  This come across as the span from 40 to 42, centered at 41: Ace of Cups = Wayne.  Hmm ... that's about the age when the salary crossed 98.8K.
  
I'm still missing something obvious ... but I am being moved to go forth and express in a new direction.  So, that is what we'll do.  Actually, that is what we always do.  If only I could live my life as I consciously choose.  Hmm ... be careful what you ask for.  Are you really ready to do that?  What makes you think that you are not already doing so.  You make conscious choices every day that bring to you the reality that you experience.  Yes, there are other than conscious forces at play as well, but these are there to do your bidding.  If you don't like something in your life ... it is for you to do something to change it.  Being dissatisfied is not enough.  Neither is being unhappy.  There are many dissatisfied and unhappy people.  Yet, there are also happy people ... people who choose to be happy regardless of the circumstances.  This is a possibility, albeit a somewhat remote one for you personally.  As the 48:The Man in Search of More, you will ever see the glass half empty.  Your worldview is naturally one of looking for what is missing, looking for what is not working effectively.  That is what you do.  And, you do it quite well.  That makes this part of what you are meant to do to serve your world.  Yes, you are a world server.  That makes you a member of a select group.  But, whether your service will be accepted, effective, and recognized remain to be seen.  Though, we don't serve to be recognized.  We serve because that is how we are moved to express and give of ourselves.  Also, that is how spirit chooses to express through us.  Even then, there is choice.  Without our willing participation, spirit has no voice or no hands.

Love what you do, or do what you love ... preferably both.  That is the secret to happiness.  Find what you love to do and do it.  The only constraint is that you harm no one in the process.  Is this really possible?  I believe that it is.  And, not just for a few but for the vast majority.  It is a matter of building the appropriate infrastructure and planning and scheduling to ensure that the right resources are applied at the appropriate times to meet the needs of society and its individual constituents.  So, how do we get there?  How do we build the necessary foundations?  My sense is that the ideas for this are already in place.  It is a matter of applying them in a way that makes a difference.  But that may mean giving up part of our freedom.  Indeed, it may, at least from the standpoint of being free to do things that you can do now.  But, if your attitude and point of view have changed so that you no longer want to do these things anyway, what does it really matter?  Living systems are not totally free.  Life itself is an intricate balancing act.  Organisms that lose their balance, die.  It is that simple.  To live, various regulatory systems must function properly.  Why should it be any different for the entity called society, an organization whose "cells" are people?

        Individual
        Family
        Tribe / Neighborhood
        Town / City
        State / Nation / Country
        Culture / Religion
        World

The economy, education, and government (judicial, legislative, and executive) are important regulatory systems.  Health care is another important one.  All of these vary substatially among the league of nations that constitutes our world.