you are the purpose of your own life.
not to get all deep and serious, but a lot of people spend so much of their lives trying to figure out what the purpose of life is. or, they give up trying to find the purpose and adopt the mentality that "nothing matters because we're just on a floating rock."
as someone who spent way too many years thinking that the purpose of my life was to try and be good enough to get into heaven, i'd like to offer an alternative perspective:
the purpose of life is simply to live. for whatever reason, we are here and we will be here until our time runs out. things matter because we have a conscious. things matter because we are humans with emotions and the ability to feel happy and satisfied or sad and uneasy.
you don't owe your life to anyone, to anything, or to any philosophy. you don't owe your life to religion, or academics, or to parental desires, or to society's view of success.
personally, i never want to lose sight of the simplicity of life. it doesn't have to be difficult.
getting a degree. landing a successful job. having kids, retiring early. dying peacefully. accomplishing a million little things in between. apparently, that's the picture of success that society has pushed since the beginning of time. but i think success is whatever you want it to be. and the purpose of life is whatever resonates with you.
it doesn't matter who or what is out there, and it doesn't matter what comes next. you are only guaranteed the life that you are living right now, the breath that you are breathing right now.
so for god's sake!!! make the absolute most of it because why not try to be as happy and content as possible?! trust your gut, trust your intuition, trust your desires (using discretion of course).
the purpose of life is to live. It's as simple as pie, as clear as day.
-jenica nieto
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This gave me a lot of encouragement and reminded me not to stress out so much with what I do with my life. Like you said to live in the now and make the most of it.
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