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Finding Your Purpose in Life
Date Published: 2015-10-18 05:39:26
OK. So you know how sometimes you’re driving home from work and you have to pull into the nearest parking lot so that you can punch the steering wheel a bunch of times and scream things about your work being meaningless, your job sucking wind, the utter hopelessness of facing 20 more years in that place, and maybe something about how such a bunch of idiots ended up in management positions? Oh…yeah. Me neither. No, Twisted Sister fans, the answer isn’t “I wanna rock!” (although I did show that video to my two older kids while I was writing this). The topic for the day is figuring out the riddle of living with purpose and how exactly to know what you are supposed to do with your life. I guess the short version of that would be, what is my calling? I figure I should be able to get that wrapped up in 400 words or so. Right? Seriously, this is something I personally have struggled with for about as long as I can remember. I think it all starts when you’re a kid and grown ups start asking you about a future you can’t even imagine yet. There you are, just 7 or 8 years old, and some well meaning adult plants “the question” in your brain… What do I want to do when I grow up? Hmmm. I’d love to go back in time and just flatly say, “Hey, I’m 8. How am I supposed to know what I want to be when I grow up when I don’t even know how to cook mac and cheese yet?” Seriously. But its too late for that now. The seed was planted long ago and it has grown over the years. I guess some people get a good answer for this question at some point. I kept waiting for it during my teens and twenties. It never came. I started actively looking for it in my late twenties and thirties. Still, it never came. I guess that might be part of why I never felt comfortable with any major in college and why I went through about ten years of having all sorts of different jobs. Too bad I didn’t have the idea for the show Dirty Jobs back in the nineties. I might have ended up on TV making car commercials like Mike Rowe. Now I’m in my forties, I’ve had the same respectable job for 11 years, but honestly, I still often feel like I’m looking for that special purpose in life. I think I’m probably trying too hard. This morning I stumbled across a video that I’d like to share here. It may be a little bit “new agey” for some people reading this, but I think some of the advice is really solid. The thing that really caught my attention was the approach used to figure out what it is that you want in life. It makes so much sense, but I had never heard it suggested before.
Anonymous Miguel Buo Jr.