It's not a mere casualty. I'm not the result of a dream or some hollographic projection.
I'm more valuable than just that. I'm here, but i didn't request to be here.
However, my being in this world has a purpose. I can't just be glad to exist. I need to find the purpose of my being.
I can't be that simplistic.
Ofcourse, I'm grateful for existing and being who I am. I may not be good enough, but I struggle everyday to be better. Not for my benefit but for those who surround me. (My brothers and sisters)
So it's not as simple to just exist. But to find the what for of my existance.

TLW

TLW, You can be that simplistic, becaue you may never see, know or understand your purpose, but I have no doubt that you will fulfill it. Some are destined to meet need on a huge scale, without noticing they did it one single person at a time.

Personally I don't think you should 'look' for your purpose because it may cause you stress, thinking you are far from succeeding when, in fact, you are have been on the right path all along.

Example: When Mother Theresa felt it necessary to follow a path, you don't really think she expected it to lead into all the places she was, do you?

I think you have been and will continue to be a great influence in many lives, and all you need do, is continue to DO what you feel is right to do.

It is that simple and what make you worthy is that every you are are determined all over again to DO what you feel is right to Do that day.

If you don't believe in any greater being or greater truth what is the motivation to do anything? Why do things that benefit your family, why try to better yourself? What is to keep you from being totally selfish or basely instinctual? I'm not judging I'm seriously curious.

BTW- I'm agnostic.

I'm a catholic. So I guess I must believe in a greater being.

Oh I see, I misread you post. Many apologies.

why in the world would you tell someone not to look for their purpose in life or that it would be stressful? do you expect it just to walk up and hit you in the head? faith without works is dead...we all have a purpose and if you want to fufill that purpose then you need to figure out what it is...some people know it as a calling and in christianity a calling is never easy, it's usually quite stressful because of people wanting to condem us for our beliefs...look at Jesus, do you think his purpose as our savior was easy? but if he didn't fufill his purpose none of us would go to heaven...think about that

Redy is a lovely lady. She was very sincere in what she expressed. She may not see the same as I do, but she has a lot of love to give.
You are being to harsh with her.
Sometimes giving love to others is more important than yelling to the world that a person is a christian and going around judging others.

Peace.

wasn't trying to be harsh or judge her personally i don't even know her...i was answering your question and explaining why it's important to look for your purpose and yes she's right it will be stressful and that's why i gave you an example of Jesus and his purpose and how stressful it must have been...i don't claim to have the authority to personally judge someone only God can do that but i believe what's in the bible to be true and with that i used Jesus as an example for your question

If you are not here by choice, then do you think you were sentenced to be here? Like this is some sort of correctional prison or something? LOL Did you tell god "I don't wanna go, please don't make me go!"

How do you know this is not a holographic type reality? Have you read the book "The Holographic Universe?" Have you looked at the evidence?

Don't you see a similarity between your dreams at night and this world? I sure do.




That's what all of us are doing. Looking for our purpose and for our reason for being. We all have that in common.

JB

I think you're onto something here... we put alot of stress on ourselves to perform which is why so many are stressed & probly never live up to their potential.

That was a big deterent to my faith. I know you don't want to hear it but now that I am taking it all to God, when I do what He says everything comes out ok. I don't feel those pressures anymore.

I read somewhere...

...failure is an event, not a person. :)

Such book does not appeal my intellect. Time is precious can't be wasted in any reading, but in edifying reading.
I could see such similarity if I were consuming some kind of allucinogenics.

I agree with that, but it's not complete. Sometimes we view an event as failure but that's becasue we EXPECTED something else. For example we may expect to find our purpose and found failure instead.

That is the stress we need to avoid. Instead we need to rethink the event, perhaps it was a detour on the way to our real purpose, or pehaps in the event another was meant to see their purpose and thus we succeeded in our own, but may never know it.

"...failure is an event, not a person." but how we view any event as JB will contest too, is how we will manifest in our future.

I'll answer for you.

Because it makes me happy. It makes me happy to know I'm doing the right thing and making others happy.

I also tend to feel really anxious and sad if I do anything I shouldn't have. Or if I didn't do something when I should have.

I strive to better myself for the people who believed that I could. I couldn't bare to let them down.

Spoken like a true believer. Reading is a waste of time. Science does not appeal to your intellect. Oh well...

Believe me it does. But when science is well oriented. I'm a tremendous fanatic of Albert Einstein.

Albert Einstein is dead and there have been some amazing new scientific discoveries since then.

can i be a teenager and say "whatever!"

Sure. Whatever.

the meaning of life is what ever you want it to be. You just need to decide. If it's to raise children and continue the human race, you will live as such. If it's to make your mark on the world you will live as such. If its to help others, you will live as such. loss is when one of these reasons ceases to be.