A question on "finding your purpose"

[MyThirdEye]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
who cares as long as you're happy?

ding ding ding

 

[Platypus]

You could wake up tomorrow and get hit by a car or lose an eye.. life is a giant mystery and you can spend forever trying to rationalize, explain or justify it if you really want to.

Or you can just let the chips fall where they do, take one day at a time and try to enjoy every day like it's your last.

 

[Whisper]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
there is no purpose, if you are searching you are just wasting valuable time
if you have 'found' it, you are just brainwashed/delusional/or trying really hard to convice yourself

Someone's a bit pessimistic. Are you able to say with absolute certainty that if someone has "found it," that they are simply brain washed/delusional/trying really hard to convince themselves? Nope, didn't think so.

It's so much easier to say that there is no answer than it is to try and find whatever the answer might actually be.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Just do your best and go where life takes you. As long as that place isn't drunk in an alley, of course.

so you basically believe in fate or destiny?

Well, people rarely stick to any plan they make up, that's all. I mostly want to go to college (I'm a senior now) so that I can find what I'll do with my life - I really have no idea right now. Sure, I say that I like to write and learn languages and stuff in my college essays, since an aimless student is no good, but I have no idea what I'll be doing later in life. Who knows? Maybe I'll find a happy life as a shrimp boat captain. Sure, I'd like to make money, but I don't know what I'd really like to do with my life yet. Basically, just make decent choices (don't smoke too much weed, don't hang out with asses, etc) and you'll be fine.

 

[BoomerD]

Find a major in college you think you'd enjoy and go for it. You can always change along the way. (if you don't change too late) MOST college courses don't train you for a job, they merely give you education to help you get a job where you start learning how to do the job, using the tools you've learned in school.

Often times, it's not so much that there is some magical purpose that is waiting for you...that you're predestined to find, but rather that you should try to find a true vocation...not just a job to pay the bills, but one that also feeds your inner self. A TRUE vocation is not like work, but rather, something you enjoy doing, and would do even if it didn't pay well. Most of us never find that...and go through life working at a job, just to pay the bills.

 

[Ronstang]

Go rent the movie "The Jerk" with Steve Martin. Once you have watched it your special purpose will be clear.

 

[PrinceofWands]

ignore, i misread it.

 

[mooglemania85]

Originally posted by: Alphathree33
Does anyone have an insight?

linky

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: Ronstang
Go rent the movie "The Jerk" with Steve Martin. Once you have watched it your special purpose will be clear.

:thumbsup: That's the first thing that ran though my head.

 

[Alphathree33]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
how old are you?

Have you ever sat and meditated about this?

Some people take longer to find there purpose than others. Some never find it ....like constipated vigalante....simply going through life wherever the winds blow them. Never really living.

I have meditated many times about it, although I have trouble keeping focus meditating for a long time. Probably mild ADD. =)

Not only have I meditated, I've read a ton, written a lot (journals, etc.), I even write ideas in spreadsheets I have on Google Docs... all kinds of stuff.

 

[KingGheedora]

There is to real purpose. All there is to do is make yourself happy. What makes you happy? Even if you're totally depressed there has to be something. Having a supply of waffles to eat in the morning, or a large fortune, success in some art, a PhD, whatever. Pick a few things you like and aim for those goals. Enjoy yourself day to day as you work towards those goals.

 

[Madwand1]

Originally posted by: Alphathree33
I have meditated many times about it, although I have trouble keeping focus meditating for a long time. Probably mild ADD. =)

Not only have I meditated, I've read a ton, written a lot (journals, etc.), I even write ideas in spreadsheets I have on Google Docs... all kinds of stuff.

Sometimes it takes more living, more meditating, and more reading to get more out of it; sometimes it takes less. The bigger problem is more commonly not figuring out which of the millions of things you want is the best, but rather how not to want those millions of things.