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There are many kinds of desires, desire for success, desire to do one’s duty even at the cost of pleasure, desire for purpose, something worth dying for which gives meaning to life.
A purposeless life is a living death. What is your purpose? Do you have one? Purpose brings passion. Find or create a purpose and then pursue it with passion and perseverance.
Every day we need to ask ourselves, Am I getting any closer to my purpose in life? Am I making this world a better place to live in? If your answer is no, then we have just wasted a day of our life. Life will reward us I proportion to our contribution.
The earlier we find a purpose in life, the better our life will be. The greatest challenge lies in the unending search for the purpose of life, not only as an individual butut also for our family, organization and county. Once our purpose and values are clear, conflicts between self- interest and social obligations find a moral balance amongst themselves. We become aware of when to take a stand. That is when we start making the right decisions for long term gain rather than making the wrong decisions for short term gain.
Wisdom and maturity lead to greater understanding of major issues. We cannot help ourselves without helping others. We cannot enrich our lives without enriching others. We cannot prosper without bringing prosperity to others.
Life is not a spectator sport. We cannot sit back and watch things happen. We need to find a purpose in order to make life meaningful and gather strive to achieve that purpose.
All of us are put on this planet for a purpose. We are part of a big picture. But very few people discover their purpose in life. Most of us just exist and keep counting our days rather than making our days count.
If the universe is an accident, we are accidents. But if there is meaning in the universe, there is meaning in us also.
