The Purpose-Driven Life

[mousme]

Okay, inquiring minds want to know. Inspired by a post by bodhifox, I have been thinking about what my role is in life, what my "title" would be. I can't think of one for myself. I am not Writer or Artist or Engineer or Mother or anything like that. I've never asked anyone else who or what they think I am (I think I'm a little afraid of what they might

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[tx_cronopio]

I am a complete mess and therefore no one that anyone would ever take as a model, but I'm pretty sure that the point is to be kind.

I try to, anyway.

[ai731]

Mine is something along the lines of "Make my little patch of the world a better place. Or at least try very hard not to make it worse. Sort of. I think.

[swestrup]

Yeah, mine too. "Leave the world a better place than you found it." is one pillar of it, and "Ideas last longer than physical things" is another. So, I try to come up with good ideas whose existence makes the world better. So far, so-so results.

[striped]

I said other, because my answer would be both "Uh, maybe? Sort of?f", in that I have a pretty clear idea by now of what are the most important and meaningful things I can be doing in my life (loving, writing, making music, science educating), at least for now, and "I don't believe that each person has a single purpose", because these things are not one single thing but rather a combination that makes a full life.

Also, "purpose" in my opinion implies a subject who has meant my life to be a certain way, and I don't believe there is any such subject, not even myself.

This is really interesting! I might develop my answer here into a real entry.

[irishyogini]

I think a person's title changes from time to time. I know what makes me happy and I have things I want to do, but things change.

[crowgirl13]

I think that titles change, shift or are lost over time.

And purposes generally have a lot of play to 'em, allowing for all sorts of soul-growth and unexpected opportunities.

:)