For me, I have started enjoying my life as it unfolds everyday. I have stopped bothering about issues. I realised that both happiness and sadness are temporary state. I strongly believe that no one can be eternally happy or sad. Staying close to reality and living the moment is what we could do best. Somewhere i have read “life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what is there until you open and taste it” how true. Happiness , sadness, regret, success are all over rated virtue. I think we should learn from kids, They cry, they play, they move on… Some say happiness comes when your content with what you have, some say it comes when we win and win big, for some it is family. All seems to be true. For it is a mix of all. Just make sure the moments are lived, lived to the fullest Celebrate life.

This is a great question. I started questioning myself that when I was 16, and I still do not have an answer for that - I'm 63 now. For this post, I will go over an explanation of why I think the question "How do I find purpose in my life?" is an unhelpful question and then I will give you some practical tips that has helped me overcome the feeling of meaninglessness. From what I have experienced and from what I have tried, I've come to the conclusion that you cannot "find" a purpose. You "create" it. When I first heard that, it didn't really make sense to me so I'll try to do my best and explain. As I was trying to 'find' my purpose, I adopted an idea that if I was able to articulate this purpose then I would finally be motivated to accomplish goals in my life and become a driven individual. If I found this purpose, then I would be more valuable as a human being. If I found this purpose, I would find joy in life. If I found this purpose, I would finally have a reason other than "going to school" for getting up in the morning. If I found this purpose. life would make sense. It would be my magic pill - just take one dose and everything will be okay. And sometimes, I still wish that this magic pill existed and I wish I could find it by just answering some questions or doing some exercise. If it exists, I would go to great lengths to find it. One idea that helped me came from Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents. He questioned why we do not ask about the purpose of dogs, yet we ask about the purpose of humans. Dogs are just alive, and they live. Humans are the same. We are alive, and we live. What does this mean? It means you don't have to be chained to this idea that there's a predetermined purpose for you and that you have to go out and find it. It means that you are free to createmeaning, you are free to create your purpose! You are free to create anything, how exciting is that?! So now we've changed the question from "how do I find my purpose?" to "how can I create my purpose?".

For me it’s all about coming into personal relationship with God. It’s belief. I believe wholly that God wants to have a personal relationship with us or He would not have created us at all. He didn’t want robots so He gave us free will and sadly we don’t even consider God in our day to day life. He formed us out of the dust from the earth He created. He molded us and after giving us our amazing body with all its works He bent down and breathed life into us. Talk about personal. Like a kiss this was. We became alive from His breath. i think true salvation is knowing and wanting to live here and still love God not for what He can do for us but for Him Himself. I strive to seek His face not His hands. in my opinion that is true salvation. It’s knowing that God loves us no matter the situation down here on earth and that we love Him and believe and do what we think He thinks we should and do it because we love Him not to receive anything at all.

The purpose of life is to live it working as long and hard as you can, throwing your wife and kids to the wayside in order that you can accomplish your career and monetary dreams. If they express their disappointment, respond by telling them you’re the leader of the house and what you say is the law. Period. Remember, by age 30 you must live in a mansion, have a Tahoe to drive around, a closet full of designer clothes, and a head full of the newest “crap” from modern age gurus. The above can be switched out equally with those who think a masters degree, MBA, JD, etc are the answers to their happiness and monetary problems. Yeahhhhhh right! The purpose of life is simple and takes only one sentence to explain: the purpose of life is to live everyday doing good. Help others. Be nice to others. Love your family. Love your friends. Love your neighbor as you love yourself.

FOR ME… Faith is a choice. It is a willingness to believe that something might be true, and then acting on that belief. Often by living our faith we will find evidence that strengthens our belief. Faith is not thinking that what you believe is a fact, quite the opposite. Faith is a choice to believe in something with no concern for proof. When that faith is applied to a belief in God, believers will often experience events and emotions that reinforce that belief. Some unfaithful people will say it's just the placebo effect, or self fulfilling, wishful thinking. They may even refer to it as delusional. A person of faith isn't usually detered by such dismissal if they understand their faith. But often times an insecure person of faith can be shamed by such irrelevant arguments into abandoning their faith, which seems to be the goal of those making the argument. For myself I understand the difference between my faith and my knowledge, and I often find it amazing that so many people are either unwilling, or perhaps unable to make the distinction. It seems to frustrate them in the extreme that I'm fully aware that there is no proof of God, and choose to remain faithful none the less.