No matter how hard you try to think, you’ll go crazy and apart from the reality, there will be no certainty on how to know your purpose here in life.
all you can do is to believe and strengthen whats in you and plug every positive energy in you, to make and know somehow what could be our purpose here and now in our living.

I myself asked this very same question in mind when I was about to enter college, whether to pursue law or go on to a different path, but I was able to know what is there that is need to be done, when I tried this program without any frustrations but with a lot of hesitations of course. And in there I found other options, monster eating variety of options I can choose, and in there I knew what I want. although I am not saying that I can forecast my purpose, but somehow I knew what is out there to pursue.

• This reply was modified 11 years, 6 months ago by Pryce.

“Do You Know What Your Purpose Is Today?”

Thank you, Peter for making this topic more relevant and personal. All change begins in the ‘present moment’ of our life and that is so very essential for us all to come to grips with. It is so easy to fall into the whirlpool of putting it off until another day. Saying to ourselves I will take action of this another day this week but I CANNOT make a decision today. When if fact we have made a decision, we have chosen to do nothing about it.

We all need to have a purpose, a reason to do what we have chosen to do in life this common need is what makes us all human beings. We need an identity, a connection to others and we need validation along with encouragement and good advice. This is a major hurdle for all teenagers and young adults who bounce from one thing to another based on the current flow of thinking by their peers and TMZ. Becoming an addict to Facebook or heightens the need to be belong or be connected, but in social media you do not have to confront others unless you want to do so. The other hazard to this identity crisis is making poor choices that could quite possibly ruin their life down the road.

My rule of thumb is to do good even when it is not popular. Do good when the rain pours down or the sun is in abundance and dances all around you. Do good even when others take your act of kindness and treat it like garbage. Remember that there is goodness all around you even on dark days and you feel hard pressed to the floor and cannot get up again as quickly as you would like to do so.
“When life knocks you down, learn how to land on your back. Because if you can look UP, you can get UP.” — Les Brown

Personally, I think one’s purpose can take a lifetime to discover. In fact, half of what I think my life’s purpose is has been to figure out what my ultimate purpose is supposed to be. I don’t think I’ve done yet what I was sent here to do. Maybe my purpose is to untilmately discover who I really am. Or maybe it’s to create something that will resonate beyond my life. I’m not sure yet. But I keep striving to figure out what it is, within the context of my world. And when the time comes, I’ll know that it’s my purpose.

All my years I have felt different, I felt that i didn’t fit in to society. And now I know that I am although it hasn’t made it easier for me and I have become increasingly frustrated. I fear the route that mankind is taking is a route to destruction, I fear we are forgetting or have forgotten our roots. At the moment we are just another cog in this machine called society. And this machine is destroying everything in its path. Money has become our leader. We are neglecting our connection with nature and the bonds that once guided us. I am afraid to pursue my purpose as I fear the disapprover’s.

I recently saw the film Before Midnight at my local theater. I would highly recommend it to everyone, but make sure you watch the first two installments of the series, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. After the film was over, an older woman probably in her 60s came up to my group of friends to ask us what we thought of the film since we were clearly discussing the series and were fans. We told her we enjoyed it and she proceeded to tell us about her life as it related to the film (it deals with getting older and life ambitions), and she mentioned that she missed being very ambitious and motivated like she was in her late teens and early twenties. This really struck me because nobody had ever mentioned that to me before. I’m 19 and I am very motivated on the things I want to do- my pipe dream is to be a screenwriter and I work on my scripts daily with little to no foreseeable hope of them being made into anything, but I still enjoy the process because it feels like my purpose. Ever since I talked to that woman, I try to stay motivated and ambitious every day, and I will throughout the years now that I know it can fade.

I guess I think that we should all remember what it feels like to be just starting out with life and how everything is a challenge that can be tackled. Who knows if I’ll ever sell a single script, but I’ll keep working on them because deep down I truly think something will come of it. Start what you want and believe it will come to something even if you’re surely deluding yourself.

Wow! I love how philosophical this topic is. 🙂 Life is definitely a journey. Some of us find out our “purpose” earlier than others. I’ve found that I really love helping others. I went through some tough times with my career and took some time to realize that I still really love helping others.

I think a really great way of finding what “your purpose” is, is by volunteering. You get a lot out of giving your time. I dunno…that’s just what I’ve found through experience.

Hey Jacques,

You totally can! The people are out there. If you’ve got a passion for something…join a club/group or volunteer for that cause. Chances are you’ll find like-minded people. 🙂 It may seem lonely now, but I promise you as time goes by, you’ll have friends and possibly family who will understand/think/feel the way you do. Sometimes, you will be the first person to experience something completely out there and at other times, you may be the last. In any case, there are people out there who may have similar experiences and may even parallel your journey. You’ll meet them some day. It took me quite a few years to find my parallel buddy, now I chat with her on a regular basis.

Keep your chin up!

Lucia