Purpose
Do you have a purpose?
Do you care if you have a purpose or not?
If you don’t have a purpose or believe in having a purpose, you are in the majority.
The majority of us do not have a purpose.
What is a purpose?
Your job is not a purpose.
In fact, anything that is a function by its very nature is not a purpose.
Function does not have a purpose, and consequently, a purpose has no function.
Many of us mistake their function for a purpose.
As I said, your job is not a purpose; it’s a function.
Everyone has a job.
Functions are a common set of actions that any and all life can do does do.
Having children and raising them is a function.
Taking care of the sick and old is a function.
Teaching is a function.
Eating, traveling, entertaining, preaching, fighting, sex, and more are all functions.
If any living creature can do it in their fashion, then it's a function.
Not a purpose.
Do you have a purpose?
You can add another fact that to qualify as a function, you can or could be paid for it.
Dentists, farmers, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, and politicians are all functions.
To have a purpose means, by its very nature, you won’t be paid for it.
As you can see, so far, having a purpose is not that attractive, is it?
Yet having a purpose is the reason, the goal of being alive.
Having no purpose is akin to being the walking dead.
Wandering through life feeding on the brains, the thoughts of others without regard to who will be harmed.
Never ever think that having a purpose means it has to be grand.
Important.
No.
That would be against everything that having a purpose means.
The smallest of purposes can also be the most important.
Being kind is a purpose.
Compassion is a purpose.
Empathy is a purpose.
These purposes are expressed through the language of love.
These purposes are executed through the administration of justice.
These purposes are held through the application of freedom.
It is through our purpose, our corner of life, that we have the privilege to make the world better.
Not for ourselves; that is a function.
The purpose of life is to make the world better for all.
How are you doing with your purpose?
Peace
Toby aka Daniel J. Frey