The Purpose of Life
What is my purpose? What is the purpose of life? It is this constant question that is inseparable from being human. An age-old question that has been contemplated, philosophized, and hypothisized throughout the cycles of humankind. An expansive question that can be answered and made specific depending on who you ask. This is the sort of question that can be answered at many levels, from the big picture collective to the individual. Where there can be one answer, and there can be many.
When we ask this question, what we are really asking is, why am I here? Why have I come into this life, and what am I here to do? Intuitively, humans can feel deep down that there must be some reason. Some focus for their energy. Something that they’re supposed to be working towards. Otherwise, what is the point of this existence?
The pursuit of purpose is a choice and an action. Every individual has a choice to believe in pursuing purpose. As well as a choice to act upon purpose. One can choose to believe in and pursue purpose, or choose to live life without purpose, or even a false sense of purpose. Purpose is not necessarily something that you’re told to do, or given by another, or expected of you in society. Purpose is not necessarily a role, or a job, or a career. Purpose is natural and soulful. Purpose is a calling. Purpose is collective with an individual expression. Purpose can be known early on or cultivated over a lifetime. Purpose can be an unfolding process, evolving with various outputs and expressions as one develops through life. Purpose can be experimental. Purpose can be what you make it to be. Purpose is ultimately the fulfillment of one’s soul. It is nature’s promise that is embedded deep in the soul of your energetic being. It’s the seed of Truth that awaits to be cultivated and expressed into the world.
Ultimately, there is indeed a point to our existence. Collectively, we come here with a purpose, and we come here with an individual expression of that purpose. In the most basic, simple, all-encompassing words, the purpose of life is to live it. Teased out: to have new experiences, to learn, to partner, to create, to experiment, to grow and evolve. ‘Living life’ can be lived on so many levels, from the lowest, basic level of living to survive and having the same routine experiences till death, to the higher levels of living to learn and evolve. We all come here into existence to live life, to have new experiences, to create, and ideally to learn and grow. That is our collective purpose, and it is our reason for being. It is simply why we are all here. However, the level in which we do that will vary depending on the level of consciousness. And the ways in which we pursue and express that purpose will also be specific to the individual. Specific to the lessons one is here to learn, specific to the abilities one is here to exercise, specific to the unique experiences one is meant to grow through.
The souls who are looking for more, are the ones who are bored with many of life’s known, defined, or conventional experiences. What they are really looking for is the unknown. To expand their sphere and venture out into the other possibilities of life. Purpose and spirituality may become a natural focus for those individuals because it will give them what they are looking for. The need to reconnect with the higher Truth and energy of their own existence and being, so they may discover how to live life in a higher purpose and intention. It is shifting the perspective of what purpose is. That it is not necessarily purpose as a thing or a job or a talent itself. But rather, purpose as a way of life and a way of being, And letting that lead and give way to the natural outputs and expressions of that way of being.