What is Your Life’s Purpose?
Get ready for a Mindfuck – I usually don’t share this deeper stuff because people aren’t ready for it, or they take it personally but here it goes…
The idea that your life has a purpose is a construction of your ego. You have no purpose, just like a snail or bird has no purpose. You could say that your purpose, just like a bird or snail is to let the life that you were born to live, live through you. In English, that means to follow your intuition or that higher self that urges you forward. Listen to what your body tells you and live out those feelings. For example, a baby is true to its purpose in every moment. If it’s hungry it cries, if its happy it smiles, if it wants to crawl, it crawls. Too often as adults, we create our lives to be a prison and we are the guard. The joy comes from letting go and following your desires only to reason that none of them mean anything and your life in the grand scheme of things means nothing either. You are just a tiny speck of consciousness running around on a dirt ball that is orbiting 1 sun out of trillions in the universe. Your purpose is whatever you choose it to be moment by moment.
I guess what Eleanor Roosevelt wrote above pretty much goes along with what I’m saying too.
-Robbie Kramer
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@Dave F
The shotgun approach is fine, especially if you are using it to see what really sticks for you. You can also think of ways to combine a few different things into one.
@Robbie I wanted to respond to your, ehm… response to my comment in the last post, and use it as a sounding board.
You mentioned something about spreading myself too thin with so many areas to focus on. I fully agree that is a possibility.
My thing right now is that I kind of get restless if I stick to ONLY one area of interest, but I really miss the activity/hobby/whateverucallit if I table it. Hence my decision to do a ‘shotgun’ approach, to see where that leads to. Some may stick, some may fall off, who knows. I guess that goes along with that Eleanor Roosevelt quote in some way.
These are just my thoughts for right now. Discussion welcome.
Excellent article!
Respect and a Hugh to you!! Big Hugh!!! You should become a behaviorist. Oh wait!!! You are
. My mom liked what we are doing. She’s a philosophy teacher btw.