It’s probably one of the most important questions you’ll ever ask.
What’s my purpose?
Books, blogs, podcasts, and videos line up in a queue waiting to answer it for you.
Libraries have been filled with tomes that try to answer it for you.
Speakers take to stages to help you tease out the reason you’re here, hoping they’ll answer it for you.
Faith provides an answer, albeit with broader brushstrokes, encouraging us to be kind and honest and loving.
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can”. (John Wesley)
And yet, we still ask the question.
Keep on asking, because the answers we find somehow don’t find their mark.
The truth is, no one can tell you what your purpose is. Not me, not your mom, not even the best Ted talk ever given.
Having said that, however, I will tell you what I think about your purpose. It’s not super-heavily researched. It’s not based on years of studying and interviewing people who have found their purpose. It’s not based on any one faith, or really on faith at all.
And yeah, it might seem just a little too simple. But sometimes the simplest answers are the most true, even for the difficult questions.
Maybe especially for the difficult questions.
There’s something that happens to you when you’re immersed in your life’s purpose, whatever that pursuit is and whether or not you actually get paid for it. So yeah, let’s stop demanding that our passion take on the responsibility of supporting us. It could very well be that we should be supporting our passion and not the other way around.
What happens is, you lose stuff.
You lose track of time.
You lose your sense of insecurity or inferiority or superiority or whatever-ity.
You lose yourself.
When you lose yourself because you’re so consumed by whatever it is you are doing, you’re probably on the right track.
You’re closer to being who you’re meant to be.
You’re becoming real.
That thing you love so much that you lose yourself in it?
That’s probably what you should be doing.
~xo,
LuAnne
