What is the purpose of this life: 3 purposes of your life.
“The Purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience. “
Elenor Roosevelt.
The purpose of life is to experience something new rather than repeating one experience again and again. Purpose gives you new life every moment and inspires you to live life to the fullest.
The purpose should be refreshing and inspiring rather than accumulating tons of facts and earthly goods. If you can discover something about which Google does not know anything nowadays, you are living a purposeful life.
Life needs a goal or aims to achieve something on this planet to survive but the purpose gives your life meaning Why you are living for?
You can never deny that you have never tried to be successful in your life or are not trying to acquire success in life. We all want to be successful in life. But the sad truth is that we forget our purpose after achieving our temporal goal.
Now, the question can arise in your mind
What is the difference between Goal and Purpose?
Are they the same?
Goals are temporary. It keeps changing with the changing situations. Your needs and desires define your goals.
Suppose, you desire to be a good professor, your goal would be how to become a great professor. After acquiring the position of a professor, your goal might be to write a book on the subject you teach. After that, you may stick to another goal to achieve something else and so on.
But the Purpose is a life-long journey. It does not have any end. In the foremost example, your goal might be to be a professor but your purpose could be learning as much as possible and spreading the knowledge among those who need them most.
Purpose keeps you alive every moment. It helps you to do something meaningful in life that ends up making you happy inwardly.
If you want to do good for others, first do good for yourself. If you treat yourself well and are aware of the consequences of this treatment, you would never harm others.
Purpose helps you to live according to your terms and conditions. If your purpose is to live happily and work out of love to be financially secure but not as a slave, you will choose your career path according to your purpose.
Are you one who has found out the true purpose of your life? Then you are on the battlefield where everybody is anxious, restless and afraid but you are calm, peaceful and fearless.
If you choose the real purpose of understanding what life is, your every moment is filled with freshness, happiness and fearlessness.
How does purpose help you to achieve your goal so effectively?
If you are passionate about learning from anything then you have not attached to money anymore rather learning gives you the utmost happiness. Now you are passionate about your work. The more passionate you are about your work, the more perfectionist you are becoming day by day. We all want a perfectionist to do anything perfectly.
Who does not want his children to be taught by the best teacher?
3 Purposes in your life.
Though the purpose of life differs from person to person, they meet the same point at the end.
Here I will discuss three major purposes of this life including mine. These are the three purposes that we harbour in our minds which give us life and energy to proceed in life.
There are no hard and fast rules to choosing your purpose in life. A purpose is a combination of ‘wants’ and ‘don’t want.
Purpose 1: Happiness
When I was a kid I wished to be a rich person as we belong to a middle-class family. I thought money is the only thing that gives happiness and prosperity in life. I was proved wrong when one day I met one of my well-off cousins. She had everything which a kid could think of; toys, good food, great outings during vacation and so on.
But she was not happy. Because she did not have any friends to play with and he did not have permission to play with anyone.
Later I understood money is not success. We want to be successful to live a happy life with our acquiantances. But there is no happiness in acquiring enormous wealth as it intensifies our concern towards money.
With time, I understand happiness and calmness is the only desired emotion we all want.
After that, I choose my career without compromising my happiness and health. It may be hard to understand and cope but if you could once do this you will be grateful to yourself for good.
There are many ways to live a happy life. Happiness is not a destination but a journey.
If you could make happiness your purpose, it will save you from toxic relationships and dishonesty. Your health is the primary reason for your happiness. Happiness is the most priceless feeling that we all want in our life.
“Your true inner happiness does not come from the material things of this world. Whether you’re flying first class, or economy class– if the plane crashes, you crash with it.”
Steve Jobs.
Summary:
Happiness is the main purpose of this life. If I get a chance to do something which will offer me a handful of riches but mental restlessness, I am ready to cast that away. Happiness is the most priceless feeling in this world.
Purpose 2: Knowledge or Learning
Knowledge is power. Knowledge distinguishes one from another. We always respect the men of letters. Developing a learning attitude in every field makes you highly knowledgeable.
The person who has a learning attitude treats the failures and success alike. He is not depressed about his failure and not overjoyed in his ultimate success. Joy is the common expression of achieving something great in life.
If you have a learning attitude, you will learn in every moment of your life.
In your extreme failures, you are learning what I should not do to be successful?
In your breakup, you understand the reasons behind a breakup and the forming of relationships.
In the death of your love once, you are trying to realize what death is?
Learning should be the primary goal of your life. If your purpose is learning from new experiences rather than repeating the old ones, you would become a self-conscious person.
A well-educated person is a self-educated and self-known person. Learning develops your questioning power and questioning is the beginning of intelligence.
The greatest successful persons are not the persons who knew the answers to all questions but are those who had good questions to ask and dared to make them a reality.
You should be powerful and intelligent not dominate others but not allow others to dominate and underestimate yourself.
Summary:
Learning is the most useful weapon to defeat anyone. If you could learn something in every moment and harbour the learning attitude in you, you will always cope with any situation easily. You are not afraid of change but rather eager to learn something new. A student could do anything in life. A student has a deeper connection with learning.
Purpose 3: Be Immortal
We do not like death. We are afraid of death but the reality is that Death is the only truth of this life. Death is nothing but change. The human being is afraid of change.
Living forever on this planet as a human being is the hidden desire of all of us. You try to achieve the highest success in life just to be remembered widely.
Our life is short but there are many things to be achieved. You can achieve everything you want to achieve if you set your purpose correctly. Life is really easy for those who have understood the game of life.
What if your purpose is to live your life to the fullest, achieving the highest possibilities of this human being?
If you set your purpose like this you will live every moment happily and energetically. Now you are not afraid of change but rather eagerly waiting to experience the new experience.
You start living every day. It seems every day is a new day and it is the last day of your life.
If your purpose is to discover the highest possibilities of this human being, you would do something extraordinary in life. Your great deeds would be remembered, you will be immortal.
The human being lives in deeds, not in years.
Steve Jobs is remembered for his unique and life-changing deeds though he is no more with us.
Elon Musk always nurtures the purpose of converting complex things into simple, easy and affordable for human beings. If he had only aim or goal to achieve something great, he would have stopped himself from exploring after he has successfully created the Paypal company.
If he had stopped his gaol at that point, we would not have era-changing inventions like Tesla, SpaceX and so on.
Elon Musk’s purpose is the invent as many things as could be achieved in this life. He is a burning example of who is achieving the highest possibilities as this human being.
The result is that he is the world’s richest person and the most successful person. Earthly riches are just fuel to pursue his purpose.
Summary:
The purpose should be something that gives you life every moment and makes you conscious of what is going on in you. The Purpose of achieving the highest possibilities of this human being revive you every day and anew your everyday. Live a purposeful life, you will fall in love with your life.
‘Amor Vincit Omnia’ (Love Conquers All). If there is love there is everything.
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