The Path That Leads Me Through

The purpose in life that you think you are leading might not be your real purpose you want to be.

What do you want to be when you grow up? Why? These are the questions we often heard from our parents when we were kids. Often in school, our teachers also asked these questions along with our ambitions in life.

There are also kids that were told what they should do in their life by their parents when they grow up. For example, my classmates back in high school. Sometimes when we meet in the university campus during college we ask each other what career we are going to pursue.

Their answers were remarkable when I heard them say, I am taking up law because my parents told me to become a lawyer. Or I am taking up criminology because my father is a police officer and he wanted me to become one.

What do you want to be?

In Asia or in other countries If not all, sons and daughters are still controlled by their parents while they are living with them. Parents will only let them go if they have found their significant other to start their own family.

For example me and my siblings when we were kids, we were sometimes asked by our parents what we want to be when we grow up. When I was 5 or 6 I guess, I used to tell them that I wanted to be a lawyer but I don’t know what a lawyer is or what it does to the people.

Our parents never told us what to become or what we should become. But of course we were always reminded of the things that shaped us to become a good citizen. I was a hard headed kid and when my mother was reprimanding me, she always reiterated to me that I should change my bad behavior because I might end up in trouble when I grow up. I remember my mother said that she didn't want to have a son because she was afraid that maybe when all things fail her son would be in jail. I guess that was the reason why she was very strict in disciplining us.

Anyway, today's topic is about our purpose in life. I know some of you are asking about your real purpose in life. Even I myself am still searching for my true purpose in life. I remember @bbyblacksheep posted something about her purpose in life. I just can’t find it in her posts. I think it was posted last month.

The search is on

In searching for my true purpose in life, I found an article about personality development. The link will be posted below as my resource. The title is “How to find your life purpose.” The article is free to download in PDF format from the owners website. This was written by Celes. 

Upon downloading the ebook, I opened it and scrolled down to the table of contents. Surprisingly, part 3 opened up my mind. It was like a wake up call.  So I jumped right to part 3 with the title, “Why earning money is not your real purpose (And how to know what is)”

All my life I thought my purpose was to become a parent too when I grow up. To have my own family, raise kids, send them to school and give them a bright future. In a sense it was like repeating the cycle as what our parents do and our great grandparents did too. Along with that purpose, earning money is also an integral part of raising our own family. Thus these purposes that we think are true are all false or imposed purposes according to Celes.

So are we saying that we should not marry and or not earn money because this is a false purpose? These are norms in every culture and yet we still have our own personal choices in life. These might have a real purpose to others and there is no need to debate. Like me for example, I am still figuring out my real purpose in life and so far the path of living a life with my own family without worrying about finances is one purpose for me.

However these purposes, which seems to be the standard reality of life, is accepted in almost any society. Often these are the things that make us happy. Having a harmonious relationship with our relatives between each family and earning a decent amount of income for a living makes it more like a purpose in life. But there is more to life than this.

When I was young I always dreamt of being a successful person financially. I always see myself as a wealthy man with big houses and cars. So by merely thinking about those things it appears to me that it was kind of  purpose while I am living. It was like my ambition, my goal. But years have passed and still I am living a life with no purpose. Still clueless of what I really want to be.

Before I got married, I made a deal with myself. It was something like, I will marry a girl at age 26 and whoever comes in my way who can love me for what I am, I will not let her go and marry her before I turn 27. It doesn’t matter if I am not financially stable. All I wanted was to marry a girl and have children so that when I reached 40 I already had a 14-year old kid. Somehow it was like living a life with purpose but what’s next after that. You are still in search of your real purpose in life.

I know that it was more like a silly goal, a nonsense goal perhaps. My goals during those times are pretty much simple. But I always fantasized of being a rich guy and traveling around the world, going to places I have never been. But at least I have traveled once. You know working overseas was one of my goals too and I was given the opportunity to do so.

But those are just short term goals and searching for my purpose in life doesn't stop there. I tried to look back at things that I have done and accomplished ten years ago. It was surprising that writing has always been a part of every journey I took. In 2010 I already started blogging with blogger.com. It was about free internet using a simple trick with the Opera Mini browser. Those are the times when phones were just Symbian and Java operating system aside from iOS. However, when I went to work overseas in 2013, I neglected the blog I created and my followers became clueless because I no longer post an update.

During two years of working abroad I created another blog again and tried affiliate marketing as my niche. Unfortunately I failed because I was scammed.

I switched careers sometime in 2016 and am still writing/blogging. I went to a different blogging platform but unfortunately I couldn't make it better and ended up with nothing. Until I found read.cash and gave it a try again. I never stop. I never quit. I just realized that maybe this is what I really want. My real purpose. That is to write. 

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