What do you feel your purpose in life is meant to be?

Question

Marriage, love, and career seem to be what most feel that is their life's mission for God. Some are meant to pray, worship, and live their life for God. This does not mean, being a nun, priest, nor reverend but a God fearing person who commits herself/himself to praying, worshiping, and devoting themself daily to Christ/God. It takes a lot of years for most to know they are meant to serve the Lord and not have earthly posessions. What tasks does the Lord want you to do? Be nice.

Answer 1

I Feel my Purpose in life Is to "Serve". >> God has led me to Care for the Sick, Sit with the Dying, and Raise Children that belong to Someone else. >> I Have never Regretted A moment Of my time that I Give to Someone........And God Has Been So Good To Me.....!!
I Have Learned I Cannot Out-give God ! And when He Gives Me another Project to do, He Is Always There to Help Me Do it. > He's a Wonderful Heavenly Father.

Answer 2

To love God with my whole heart, mind and strength, and my neighbor as myself.
How do I do this specifically? Firstly, through marriage; I have a mission to love, to encourage my husband and teach my daughter. Not only about life in general, but how to develop virtues like patience, fortitude, understanding, and respect for oneself and others. To participate in the spiritual life of God (through prayer and communion) and the spiritual lives of those I am entrusted to care for. And to unite any physical pain (medical problems) , emotional and mental pain I endure in my life to Christ/God. All suffering is little compared to what he suffered for us.
You are right. Education, work, accumulation of material things (some necessary to raise a child, others..just.wants-- not needs) take up the early years. I did not fully realize I had a reason for "being" and.had a mission in this world until I was about 25! But it is taking longer than I would like to rid myself of earthly posessions that only weigh down my soul. I should have started cleaning out when I was still in my 40's!

Answer 3

I'm not going to attribute it to any god, but I have always been driven to teach. I was a tutor and peer counselor in high school, a tutor in college, a high school history teacher, a museum docent and now that I run my own business, I'm still teaching people how to do what I do.

That's my draw, I enjoy it and the subjects I teach, and I'll likely be doing it for the rest of my life.

Answer 4

If I really could I want to know the meaning of everything.

I guess what Buddha achieved. Enlightenment

Answer 5

Work hard and pay lots of taxes...anyway, that's been my experience thus far. I sort of wish my purpose would have been to ride on the merry-go-round pony and eat rocky road ice cream, but alas, it was not to be.... :(

Answer 6

To live as best I can.
God has no purpose in my life.
It may be your purpose to serve a god but that is your purpose not mine.

Answer 7

i feel that my purpose in life is to be an instrument for others. i dont see my life being on the spot light and people looking ahead of me. i dont dream of an extravagant life and i dont think that i would fit that kind of life either. just to be an instrument for others is the purpose i see my life is for.

Answer 8

To help someone with expecting a thank you.

Answer 9

The philosophical question "What is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "What is the nature of life (and of the universe in which we live)?", "What is the significance of life?", "What is valuable in life?", and "What is the purpose of, or in, (one's) life?". These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and arguments, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations.

These questions are separate from the scientific issue of the boundary between things with life and inanimate objects.
Popular beliefs
"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives, most in the context "What is the purpose of life?" Here are some of the many potential answers to this perplexing question. The responses are shown to overlap in many ways but may be grouped into the following categories:

Survival and temporal success
...to live every day like it is your last and to do your best at everything that comes before you
...to be always satisfied
...to live, go to school, work, and die
...to participate in natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future of intelligent life
...to compete or co-operate with others
...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
...to gain and exercise power
...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
...to eat
...to prepare for death
...to spend life in the pursuit of happiness, maybe not to obtain it, but to pursue it relentlessly.
...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction (alike to participating in evolution)
...to protect and preserve one's kin, clan, or tribe (akin to participating in evolution)
...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
...to observe the ultimate fate of humanity to the furthest possible extent
...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means
...to attempt to have many sexual conquests (as in Arthur Schopenhauer's will to procreate)
...to find and take over all free space in this "game" called life
...to seek and find beauty
...to kill or be killed
...No point. Since having a point is a condition of living human consciousness. Animals do not need a point to live or exist. It is more of an affliction of consciousness that there are such things as points, a negative side to evolutionary development for lack of better words.

Wisdom and knowledge
...to master and know everything
...to be without questions, or to keep asking questions
...to expand one's perception of the world
...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes
...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
...to understand and be mindful of creation or the cosmos
...to lead the world towards a desired situation
...to satisfy the natural curiosity felt by humans about life

Ethical
...to express compassion
...to follow the "Golden Rule"
...to give and receive love
...to work for justice and freedom
...to live in peace with yourself and each other, and in harmony with our natural environment
...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
...to serve others, or do good deeds

Religious and spiritual
...to find perfect love and a complete expression of one's humanness in a relationship with God
...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
...to become like God, or divine
...to glorify God
...to experience personal justice (i.e. to be rewarded for goodness)
...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. to seek objectivity)
...to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment, and atonement
...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
...to discover who you are
...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced

Philosophical
...to give life meaning
...to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
...to know the meaning of life
...to achieve self-actualisation
...all possible meanings have some validity
...life in itself has no meaning, for its purpose is an opportunity to create that meaning, therefore:
...to die
...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
...nature taking its course (the wheel of time keeps on turning)
...whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception"
...there is no purpose or meaning whatsoever
...life may actually not exist, or may be illusory )
...to contemplate "the meaning of the end of life"

Other
...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general
...to participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe
...to make conformists' lives miserable
...to make life as difficult as possible for others (i.e. to compete)
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