What is the purpose of life?

What is the purpose of my life?

Do you sometimes get an uneasy feeling that you are supposed to be pursuing a higher purpose in this life but somehow it remains a mystery? Some people seem to be born knowing what their purpose in this life is. Somehow the planets conspired to arrange things in their lives to bring about a brilliant “AHA, I have found it!” moment and that was it – a brilliant violinist, a humanitarian, a philosopher. 

I never really considered the question of purpose until recently. I was too much in the moment to think those thoughts as a child, my early adult years found me preoccupied with fundamental questions like how will I pay the rent? It’s only lately I have had the space and time to contemplate purpose in life and I have no answers other than the insight that it is a question mostly asked by those either higher up on the food chain or those who have chosen a non-materialistic, more spiritual way of being.

I find it fascinating that there is no generic answer to the question of purpose it’s very much something we each have to come to individually. As this is a fundamental question for many, perhaps there is an easier approach to finding its answer. What if we asked instead; “what gives my life meaning?” 

 I found this statement by Mark Manson:

Here’s the truth. We exist on this earth for some undetermined period of time. During that time, we do things. Some of these things are important. Some of them are unimportant. And those important things give our lives meaning and happiness. The unimportant ones basically just kill time.

Through pursuing the things that give me a sense of meaning to my life, my purpose becomes clear. . So simple!