Some people are so caught up in finding their path or purpose. I really don't think that people have this single great path or purpose for being on this earth. We are all essentially meant to be here to experience all that life has to offer.
People have many purposes each day impacting others or working on self-growth. Each day people have the chance to be the one to make another's day or convey necessary knowledge or help solve a problem. I am very against this illusion of a valiant hero (any possible person) that completes his single life mission to defeat evil. Though this story is so elemental and comforting, life is far more intricate and subtle. People are far too complex to be used in such a linear way.
Purposes can range from simply being a positive light in someone's life or helping someone in a small and unexpected way. It's all like dominoes. Our actions create reactions which create new actions. Our purpose could be to be the first domino or last domino or any of the ones in between. This is the point. Our individual purposes may be small yet collectively change so much.
In a sense, this is far more comforting to me. I've never seen myself as a valiant hero anyway.
So don't seek one sole purpose. There should not be all of this value in purpose or path, but in our impacts. Through impact there is worth and since the world's collection of individual purposes can create large impacts we are all worthy.
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Open-Ended: Letters to Myself and the World
PoetryThese are simply scribbles of thoughts or ideas that just bubble up. Much is unedited and meant to allow for the words to set in as they are meant to for each reader.
