Life's purpose

With all my wrong decisions, failures, fears and regrets in life, I cannot help but to question myself about my true purpose. A few days ago I mentioned to @Firenze on my Quitter article that up to this day I do not know what my purpose in life is. She told me that eventually I will be able to find out about my purpose and that I need to rely on God that He will soon direct me to the plans that He has made for me. But have you also experienced asking yourself even once about your purpose? Have you figured it out or are you still in the process of knowing about it?

Currently I know that I am motivatingly motivated in achieving my goal of having that debt free kind of life. However goals and purpose are not the same as goals are just a fraction of our purpose. Wait, did you think that they are the same? For me they are not. Purpose is something bigger or larger than our goals that describes us for who, what and why we are living. Yes you have achieved your goals but what's next? Set another goal? Where did your goals lead you? Are you happy or satiafied with how your life turn out to be? Do you feel something is lacking? If you will thoroughly reflect about it, you will also say that goals and purposes are different.

Are you familiar with the book, The Purpose Driven Life? Obviously it is about our purpose in life. Honestly I have not read that book yet but according to my friend, it tackles about life, purpose and God's plan. Generally it is like the reason why you exist here on Earth.

When I resigned from my job years ago, one of the reasons why I quit was that I was burned out and all my passion towards the food industry totally just vanished. With all the years of my existence in the world, I felt like I was living a meaningless life because I was only living for myself. It was during my second to the last job when I started to treat my family but majority of my life, I did things for the benefit of my enjoyment and pleasure. My life, my rules. I quit whenever I feel like quitting that I felt like my life was going nowhere. That is when I started to question what my real purpose in life was.

Before I started drafting this, I looked back on my post on Instagram during those times that I was figuring out what my purpose in life was.

I know my passion was in the food industry but somehow I still cannot point out what my purpose was with my passion especially now that I am unemployed. However, being unemployed does not mean that our purpose in life stops. So I deeply pondered on what has been my purpose and then I thought about my articles. I realized that maybe I have a passion for writing. I may not be as good as @Bjorn, as inspiring as @JLoberiza, as detailed as @charmingcherry08 or as poetic like @bbghitte and @Bloghound but I know that there are some readers who have been ispired with my life's experiences. I think that my purpose is to share my knowledge and experiences whether good or bad so that they would be better than me. Better in a good way and not to be better in having more debts, mistakes and failures in life. Yes we needed those mistakes in order for us to learn. We needed those failures for us to succeed.

I think maybe it was God's plan for me blog for me to realize more of my purpose. He wanted me to help other people. He wanted me to inspire them although I know there are times that my articles are not that inspiring. However it is because of this platform that had made me changed my outlook towards life. It was because of this platform that I had helped some people whom I do not know personally. Helping others does not necessarily mean financially but also mentally, emotionally, socially, spiritually and physically. I think God wants me to help more people and to share more with people. I may not be able to help as many people as what the other Youtube influencers have done to some people but few is better than nothing.

For me there was that "spark of joy" when I read comments that they were inspired or that they have learned something from my articles. I also feel satisfied when someone would compliment my work. However I never realized it until now that maybe it was my life's purpose to help and inspire others. My goals have lead me to my purpose. Primarily, I joined this platform because I needed money for my debts. One of my goals is to save and in order for me to do that was to clear first my debts. As I go along, I was slowly paying off my debts and I was also able to motivate other people.

My life had been more meaningful because I know that there is a purpose for me why I share about my life, rants, thoughts and opinions. I am currently fulfilled, contented and satisfied with how my life is doing even if I am unemployed. I remember before whenever I would wake up I would ask myself what something new will happen to me. It was because I was really a total bum wherein I would just eat, watch TV, sleep, repeat. Now everything is different eventhough the routines are still the same because I get to do another thing and that is to blog. Knowing my purpose has changed the way how I looked at life. I may not be of any help with regards to paying our utilities yet but I know someday I would be able to provide for them.

Our life's purpose may differ from person to person. It may or not be because of our passion but eventually we will be able to know what our real purpose are here on Earth. It can also be as simple as being a good mother/father, daughter/son, sister/brother and friend/stranger. I believe with what Firenze said that as long as we put God in the center of our lives, He will guide us according to His plan thus leading us to our life's purpose.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

P.S. lead image was during the time that I have enjoyed too much of my time after I have resigned from my last job. I stipp had time to bond, drink and laugh with my friends even when I was already problematic with how my life has turned out.