My purposeWhat is my purpose, sounds like a philosophical question. For example there could be so many answers to that. I don't think we truly know our purpose till after we have lived most of our lives. A purpose can change so much I think. For instance a little kid's purpose is going to be way different from when they grow up, most likely.
I think that people can have not one but many purposes in life. Me included. I have a religious purpose. My religion purpose is simply to live for God and believe in him and help others to as well. I hope that all my life I will stay true to God. I see myself in the future trying to go to church every Sunday. Right now I am a Russian Orthodox, which really is pretty much like Luthern except Russian. I love going to church unlike a lot of people. Maybe it's because I go to such a different church. We have lots of religious holidays and I love celebrating them with my family and my church friends. There is so many holiday traditions at my church, like every year on Easter we stay the night at the church and have a service all night and then about four in the morning have a huge Easter Feast. I will never forget the drowsy but exciting Easter nights. I hope that I can pass this tradition to my kids. I think that the purpose to be a christian all my life is my most important purpose of all. My family has always been very religious and I plan to be the same. Not to the extreme though.
Another purpose in my life is to help people that are in need. I have always felt the need to help someone who need it out. I mean I am very compassionate about helping people, when those commercials go on about the little kids that are starving and have no one to take care of them It makes me cry every time, doesn’t help that there is always a sad song to go along with the commercial. I have always wondered how I was going to accomplish something so big. I think I found a way to do so though. I always have loved anatomy, in fact my favorite show is Grey's Anatomy and most of my favorite shows are medical related. When people ask me who I want to be when I grow up, without hesitation I answer, a surgeon. Although being a surgeon will take some hard work and effort to become I think it will be worth all the sweat and tears that I will put into it. The reason I want to work as a surgeon is because not only do I love anatomy and medicine, I also want to be a surgeon because it would be exactly what my purpose is. Helping those in need. I think being a surgeon or any kind of a doctor for that matter is the best way to help those in need. The ill and the dying can be saved by just a simple surgery and I want to be a part of that.
My third purpose is to do something to make a change in the world. To be known for something. Not exactly be famous, although that would be really nice too, but make a difference in the world. I want to leave knowing that when Im gone people will remember me long after Im gone. I feel like my life wouldn't be complete if I didn't make my mark in the world, if I somehow didn't make a difference in the world. Im not quite sure how I would make a difference but I think when the oppurtunity presents itself then I would go for it. Maybe help create something that would help thousands of people or invent something. There is soo many possibilities. I hope to take as many as possible.
Overall I am happy with my life purposes. I hope that I never lose sight of whats important and what I want out of life. I really do believe that we won’t truly know our life purpose till our lives are almost done, kind of like a life reflecting thing, but these life purposes are what I hope that I look back on when I am old and know that I was right and that they really were my life purposes.
