How do you find a purpose in life?

Question

I don't want to work for anybody or god. I just want to go to a far away place from everyone and live with animals or something.

Answer 1

Work with your strengths, and things that interest you, and you will find a purpose in life.

Answer 2

Blissie,

I offer an excerpt from the "Bashar" website for your consideration. Although I cannot plagiarize what is said, the idea is basically to follow your own excitement, because that's how you know you're on to something important to pay attention to, especially if you are seeking a purpose for your life, or anything else.

Check the URL listing I've provided. Then click on "About", then click on the portion called, "The Fundamentals".

I hope you allow a sense of excitement, rather than despair, to help you find your purpose in life. On your journey you may discover that the "road less travelled" is the place within yourself whereupon you become what you already are. And that the place you think is so far away has always been your own very near, dear Self.....


Orin

Answer 3

I've long held the suspicion that life doesn't come with a pre-packaged purpose/meaning any more than it comes with an instruction manual or a warranty.

However, rather than drift aimlessly through existence (which gets old VERY quickly), I try to give my life some meaning. My actions affect those around me, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately and overtly. I help those around me in simple ways, and always try to make sure the people around me feel as though I feel that they're important.

As you know, sometimes people doubt their importance... but an unsought confirmation of individual value can be a wonderful thing.

At least the way I see it, I'm not working for God or anyone else. This is my own soul I'm developing here, and for my own gratification. Anything beyond that is still just speculation.

Answer 4

Purpose requires God. Sounds like you just want to find something to do that makes you feel good. Feeling good is very subjective so just try things and see how they work out for you.

Answer 5

Most people are looking for "a" purpose in life, just like you say. Why do you want to find "a" purpose. I'd prefer to have no purpose than just any old purpose. "A" purpose, would be just me fooling myself into thinking I'm important. If I am important, then I want "The" purpose in life.

Answer 6

Sounds to me like you are depressed. A bit different than what your question asks.

But, to answer the actual question, to find your purpose in life find your gift. If you don't know what it is, ask those close around you what your gift is, they probably already see it.

Cultivate that gift and you will find purpose :)

Answer 7

By living to the dictates of your conscience. The rest is left to your choice.

May I add one more observation of mine on this question. You have a confused outlook on life. If you think I am correct find out a remedy. No offence is meant.

Answer 8

God has given us all a purpose and regardless of free will, we should follow what is in our hearts to do what we know is right and just.

Answer 9

What are you RUNNING from? and do you think what your trying to Run to is going to provide you peace?

Read the Qur'an and find out about Islam you don't have to except it just have a look.that's why Islam is the fastest growing religion because people are are having a look,read what Allah Say's in the Qur'an.

May Allah guide you to peace and prosperity.Amen

Answer 10

we have to ask ourselves a further question. When you see a bridge, a building or an automobile, you automatically consider the person or company that constructed it. When you see a large ship, an airplane, a rocket, a satellite; you also think about how incredible it is. [You know by its design who the maker is.] When you see a super international airport, nuclear plant or an orbiting space station you have to be thoroughly impressed with the engineering dynamics that are involved. Yet, these are just things that are manufactured by human beings. So what about the human body with its massive and intricate control systems? Think about it.

Think about the brain: how it thinks, functions, analyzes, retrieves and stores information, as well as distinguishes and categorizes information in a millionth of a second, all of this constantly.

Think about the brain for a moment. (And don't forget the fact that you are using your brain to consider itself!) This is the brain that made the automobile, the rocket ships, the boats, and so on. Think about the brain and who made that!

Think about the heart. Think about how it pumps continuously for sixty or seventy years [taking in and discharging blood throughout the body] maintaining steady precision throughout the life of the person.

Think about the kidneys and the liver and the various functions they perform. The purifying instruments of the body that perform hundreds of chemical analyses simultaneously and also controls the level of toxicity in the content of the body. All of these are done automatically.

Think about your eyes, the human cameras, that adjust, focus, interpret, evaluate, discern color automatically, naturally receiving and adjusting to light and distance.

Think about it-Who created them? Who has mastered their design and function? Who plans and regulates their function? Human beings do this? No, of course not. What about this universe?

Think about this. This earth is one planet in our solar system, and our solar system is one [of possible many] solar systems. Our galaxy, The Milky Way, is one of the galaxies. There are ONE HUNDRED MILLION GALAXIES in the universe. They are all in order and they are all precise. They are not colliding with each other. They are not conflicting with on another. They are swimming along in an orbit that has been set for them. Did human beings set that into motion and are human beings maintaining that precision? No, of course not.

Think about the oceans, the fish, the insects, the birds, the plants, bacteria, and chemical elements that have not yet been discovered and cannot be detected even with the most sophisticated instruments. Yet each of them has a law that they follow. Did all of this synchronization, balance, harmony, variation, design, maintenance, operation and infinite numeration happen all by chance? Do these things function perfectly and perpetually also by chance? No, of course not. That would be totally illogical and foolish. In the least, it indicates that however it came to exist-it exists beyond the realm of human capability. We will all agree to that. The Being, The Almighty Power, God, The Creator who has the knowledge to design and proportion created all of this and is responsible for maintaining it. HE is the only one that deserves praise and gratitude.

If I were to give each one of you one hundred dollars for no reason, just for being here, you would at least say thank you. What about your eyes, your kidneys, your brain, your children, and your life: Who gave you all of that? Is He not worthy of praise and thanks? Is He not worthy of your worship and recognition?

My brothers and sisters, that in a nutshell, is the goal and purpose of this life. Allah said to us in the Holy Quran: "And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me." [Surah 51: Ayah 56] this is what the Almighty said.

Our purpose in this life is to recognize The Creator, to be grateful to Him, to worship Him, to surrender ourselves to Him and to obey the laws that He has determined for us. It means worship is our purpose in life. Whatever we do in the course of that worship, [i.e., the eating, the sleeping, the dressing, the working, the enjoying,] between birth and death is consequential and subject to His orders. But the main reason for our creation is worship. I don't think anyone who is analytical or scientific will have much of an argument with that purpose. They may have some other reason with themselves-but that is something they have to deal with between themselves and Almighty God.