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 means to an end.
Everyone has a job.
Functions are a standard set of actions that any and all life can 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.
A woodpecker pecks.
A dog barks.
A fish swims.
These actions are not a purpose.
Do you have a purpose?
To qualify as an additional type of function, you can or could be paid for your function.
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, having a purpose is not that attractive.
There is no recognized glory.
However, there is an irony to having a purpose.
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 and 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.
Caring is a purpose.
Love is the greatest 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.
Purpose.
How are you doing with your purpose?
Peace
Daniel J Frey aka Toby