what do they mean by finding a purpose?

Question

how do i find it?

Answer 1

Finding a purpose helps give meaning to your life. Some find it in parenthood, some in charity work; they feel they have given back to the world by providing hope for future generations. Some find meaning in their lifework, like Thomas Edisons purpose was to improve the lives of everyday people (and make $$ in the process). Some doctors or scientists find meaning in trying to cure diseases. For some, it involves people, for others animals and for others, nature. Some find it in God, or spiritual expression. It means finding out what is important to you, and working to save it, fix it, improve it or preserve it.

Think about the things you care about. What could YOU do, even in a small way, to have an impact? It may lead you to your lifes purpose, which might be different than what you originally thought it might be. Look at Bill Gates; it would seem that originally, his lifes purpose was to create software applications that made computing easier. This led to him being rich, which may have led to his REAL lifes purpose of helping to cure disease in the Third World by financing research.

You never know what your lifes purpose may be, but start looking for it, and you will find it.

Answer 2

Finding a purpose is equal to finding yourself. Looking for ourselves it is all we do being alive on this planet.Since yourself not somewhere outside of you, so purpose as well. It is there where your "lost" self are.And it is not , actually, lost it still where it always been, within you, not without.Yourself and a purpose is not just equal, but having identical meaning for two terms, unseparate.Being yourself you becoming a purpose itself. So stop bother with purpose, better find yourself.The purpose will manifest along with it. But , first stop place a purpose outside of you, otherwise you will lose yourself over and over again.

Answer 3

When you find a reason to get up in the morning, someone or something that you love. It could be a person, a job, a hobby. Something that makes you feel that its what you were put on this earth 4. hope u find it!

Answer 4

Finding a purpose is kind of like finding something you can do that you can be pasionate about doing.

To find it, try doing things and keep an open mind until you find something you really like doing.

Best of Luck

Answer 5

There are three common questions people ask of philosophy:

1. The meaning of life,
2. The aim or goal of life,
3. The purpose or use of life.

These are not all the same question. What's more, the people who ask them usually neglect to make clear whether they are asking about their or my own personal life, about human life in general, or about all life in general.

So you see that there are nine different things these three questions might be asking. Here are my answers to them:

1. Your own life has only the meaning you give it yourself, there are plenty of alternatives to choose from.
2 & 3. It follows from 1 that there is no meaning common to all human life, nor to life in general.

4. Again, your aims or goals in life are a matter for your own choice. What's the difference between meanings and goals? It is that goals can be reached, but meanings are ideals - they might not be reachable, but their reward is not in being reachable but in being pursuable and worth pursuing.

5. Human life in general might, I suggest, have three main aims: - to defeat death, to maximize knowledge, to maximize happiness.

6. Life in general would have the same ultimate aims as human life (see 5). Naturally, life has to develop human capabilties (or better!!!) to be able to do so.

7. If you want to have a purpose or use in life, that suggests selflessness, and it might be either moral selflessness (being of use to others) or immoral selflessness (self-destructive behaviour is immorally selfless).

8. Is there some use to which some outside power is putting the whole human race? One hopes not, but this is what some religious people claim - that we are all God's instruments, we exist for some inscrutible reason of God's own.

9. Does 8 apply to life in general? Again, one hopes not. And again, some religious beliefs claim so.

Life has only the meaning you give it yourself. You can choose your own goals and values, your own ends and means. Basically, there are three sorts of alternative, and each has both positive and negative 'roads' to take.

One, you can live life selfishly. This, from a moral point of view, is negative - looking out at all times for 'number one'. But it need not be negative - not if you have a special ability or high degree of ability (say, in art) and you concentrate on developing that ability in a way that is 'selfish' in the short term but is likely to make a contribution to human good in the long term.

Two, you can invest yourself in others. This can range from simply concentrating on being a good parent, to being a dedicated contributor to some community or some organization, whether it be a religion, a political party, a commercial company, etc. But the negative side of this is that you might, in the latter part of your life, find that the group you have dedicated yourself to has not appreciated your contribution, or has changed negatively from what it was despite your efforts, and you might, when it is too late, regret not indulging yourself a little more than you did.

Thirdly, you can turn away from both self and others and, negatively, abandon any attempt to be a moral person, letting yourself be ruled by your emotions or appetites, to the cost of both yourself and those around you. Or, positively, become one of those intensely 'practical' people who 'get things done' in the purely physical sense (but are good for little else).

Of course, it is possible to combine elements of each of the three basic alternatives - though it probably isn't advisible, for sanity's sake, to combine both negative and positive roads.

Life is about choices. Your life is about your choices.

Answer 6

you dont need to find a purpose. its a given that your purpose is to get everything you want and becoming everything you want to be.

Answer 7

Bible

We have a divine purpose before we die.

Answer 8

It's your calling. The reason why you're here. What is the best way you can help others?

Answer 9

that's what they say when cleaning out the tuna nets......ooohhh wait a minute... that's finding a porpoise......my bad! Nevermind!