your purpose in life
The best way to answer this question is not to look into what you want. It is to take a macro scale and look at the universe and its’ ways. Let me explain. Many of us like to look at our lives from a ‘singular’ view. We look at our life. We rarely look at our lives.
What do I mean by our lives? We will find greater purpose when we understand that our lives are part of a deeper ecosystem. We are in fact, not just a life, but our life is part of a group of lives, and it is your goal to find out where it is you fit, what you can do to serve, and how to work cooperatively in this group.
Let me dive deeper into how this works – by using Nature as an example. Our physical bodies, one of the most complex organisms in the natural world, function as a series of systems. Without getting too deep into anatomy, the heart is connected to the lungs because the heart must pump deoxygenated blood to the lungs, and the lungs will ‘supply gas’ to the blood, for it then to be pumped back to the heart, to be spread around the body.
This is called the cardiorespiratory system. The heart and lung must serve each other so we don’t die. Now, let’s go deeper.
Within the heart, there is a the left atrium, left ventricle, right atrium and right ventricle. These all must function properly for the heart to pump effectively. If we go deeper into the left ventricle itself, you will find smaller and smaller cells that must work together for that small piece of fibre to function.
The same goes for every other organ in the human body. Every organ can be broken down into smaller cells that must function correctly on its own AND with others so the system doesn’t break down.
This is Nature’s Law. These cells don’t ‘wonder’ what their ‘goal in life’ is, they simply perform in cohesion with their other cells to make the ‘system’ work.
But how does this ‘Law’ also apply outside of the body? For a business to thrive, you must hire a team that all work well together. This creates synergy that is more than the sum of its’ parts. If one part falters, the whole system begins to crumble. Like the human body, a business will die if all the cells stop working well, and by extension, working well together.
One more example I can give is natural ecosystems in wilderness. Let’s use something like the bushfires in Australia. Bushfires routinely ravage the mountains causing death and destruction in the animal wild life, and even the humans around. However, after the ground is burnt, new seedlings begin to sprout. The ‘dead’ trees have a process called ‘germination’, where they drop their seeds into the ground in response to the fire – which causes new growth.
The dead animals decay, re-fertilising the ground. The surviving animals begin to thrive with the ‘lesser’ competition on food and decrease in predators. The ‘fire’ although destructive, is a ‘part’ of a process that provides rebirth and renewal, a part in a system that is self-governing. For what purpose?
We don’t know, but it is nevertheless part of the team.
So where does that leave us?
You are a cell. A cell part of a system. Find the system that you can best contribute to. That you can help thrive. That is your purpose in life. And in that purpose, you will understand what your life is for.