Let Your Life Passion Determine The Purpose of Life
What is the Purpose of Life? This is probably the oldest and most asked question to ever plague the human mind. We might have been asking this of ourselves and the sky above even before we had the words to express this query. It is this question that makes our species so curious about everything around us, because somewhere deep down we feel that the more we understand the parts and mechanics of the universe, the closer we get to answering our ultimate question: What is the Purpose of Life?
Religions, philosophies, dogmas and theories have come into being to explain the purpose of existence, but ultimately it remains a very personal question. While you can look at life as a large amorphous system that needs to have some disembodied purpose, it might be more within our limited human ability to fathom a part of this purpose rather than the whole - in a similar spirit to how scientific and philosophical enquiry began. Thus the true measure of purpose can only be of your own life, and it can only come from within.
Each of us choose to define our purpose in different ways. Some choose the biological while others choose the metaphysical, while yet others choose the status quo. Some decide early in their life what they want to accomplish, while others realise much later in life that even purpose is not written in stone, and it is never too late to rethink your priorities. But the majority of us haven’t even reached that level, because we simply have no idea what our purpose in life is.
When you are searching for meaning in your life, turn to your life’s passions for answers. If human beings are mere creatures of emotion, then our passions are our crowning achievement. Undirected and unfocussed passion might be destructive, but to have passion for something is the most creative force we have at our disposal. Dig deep and find that one thing or collection of things which make you happy. And by that I don’t mean some pedestrian smile inducing act but rather something that makes your very soul sing with satisfaction and pleasure. We all have such a passion, although some of us aren’t consciously aware of it yet.
Find your passion. Do a little soul searching and ask of yourself the ultimate human questions: What in life makes me truly happy? and What activity or “work” can I not imagine myself separated from? There in lies your passion. Finding a way to channel this passion in a way that might be of service to others is the first leap towards finding out your life purpose and in ultimately gleaning a sliver of what the purpose of life itself is.
Answer the call of your life passion and you answer the call of life to deliver it to its purpose. Be passionate about something, give that passion a greater calling, and you have found your purpose in the mechanics of the universe. Answers can only be yours when you ask of yourself the right questions, so ask away and live free.
This post was guest blogged by Samir Bharadwaj. He is a freelance writer and design generalist who blogs about his ideas, and ideas in general at Samir Bharadwaj dot Com.
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