Life's Purpose

There is no greater purpose in life than to serve others with the natural abilities that we were given at birth. I firmly believe that we all have a perception that can change, not just one person, but many around us that we come into contact with. In my opinion, there is nothing more fulfilling to me than creating something that changes someone else for the better in a split second. I stopped creating things for people because I doubted my ability to do so and the importance of my work:

Why does what I think matter?

What does my work do for others that can’t be done by someone else?

I completely threw away my belief system during the last four years. Why? Because as we grow, life will test us with catastrophe, negative encounters, throw curve balls at us that we can’t fathom to explain the reasoning for, but, it is in these instances that life is showing us who we truly are. Each time we “fail” during these instances, we see ourselves in a much different light than previously held before. Unfortunately, this light is a bit more dim now.

Every single time this happens, the light gets a bit dimmer until we become lost over time. Our perception of who we truly becomes skewed. Unable to see the path in front of us that was so clearly laid out beforehand when we were younger, we begin to drift. This drifting becomes a way of life that we despise yet cannot illuminate.

How? How does one undo the light going out when no new light comes in?

The drift became a gradual decline in light, but, there cannot be a gradual illumination when we cannot see!

What do we do?

This is where most of us will become lost forever and cease to exist one day with regrets, contempt for ourselves, and holding the knowledge that we did not do all that WE could.

However, there are some who create a spark in this ebony abyss that surrounds and drowns them. There is this spark that happens for a split second in their line of vision and they can either keep it alight in their minds and hope to create that same spark again or they can brush it off as their eyes playing tricks on them in the dark.

This is a test.

Life is seeing you flounder in circles blindly so it casts a light to get your attention. Will you follow it? Will you doubt it’s existence? Will you allow yourself to believe once more? Believe that you can once again be on the path you were supposed to be on, but newly illuminated with fresh eyes absorbing everything in it.

If you can’t believe that this little spark that lived for a split second in your line of sight was real, then life will no longer help you get on the path you were once meant to be on.

I believed, a long, long, long time ago, that we were born for a specific reason. This reason was to impact people in a way no one else can on this planet. How? Because the way we articulate, the way we speak, the way we show our love, talent, and knowledge, is totally different than the person sitting next to us. We get lost in this abyss but we allow it to drown us instead of learning how to swim. If we learned how to swim, couldn’t we follow that spec of light that shows up for that split second? What if we swam toward that spec until eventually it showed up more and more and then we began to see a dim light through the waves that didn’t go away? What if that light became stronger through the skewed vision that the water gives us and we eventually got to the point where all we saw was this magnificent golden white light encompassing our vision right beneath the surface until one second goes by and we break through?

Now all we see is fresh light above us, our bodies underneath the abyss but our heads above water and we can see, we can feel, we can almost taste the light that illuminated our paths once more!

The freedom of swimming in any direction we want can be daunting because there is no clear path anymore but we have surfaced with the ability of creating our own path. The courage of CHOOSING where we want to go with our new learned abilities in conjunction with our naturally born talents.

The trial isn’t over yet just because we the light, however. We can just as easily drown again if we stop swimming.

Now, the challenge is keeping our heads above water and using the newfound strength in our bodies to swim, constantly swim, to a shore we have fought so hard and long for. We will get tired. We will want to give up despite the light beaming on our faces. We will want to fail again just because we allow doubt to filter in our minds again.

Are we really supposed to be here? Swimming? Was it a joke life made at our expense? Are we really worthy of this chance? Can I even get there in time…?

Once we allow doubt to seep into our minds is when our bodies weigh heavy once more and we begin to feel our chins dip below the surface.

This test life gives us, is not meant to torment us, but to build us into the character we hoped to be when we first saw the world around us.

When you step foot on that sandy shoreline for the first time, in you couldn’t say how long, you will see a path through a new lens that you could not before and when you come across the people on this newfound path you will touch them more deeply than what you could have before you sank so far down because you have been to the depths yourself.

You might not know it when you speak to these people, but they could have been in the depths as well and felt isolated once they found shore. They may be on their way to the depths in that moment you see them. They may not even be close but the fact you speak with so much wisdom inspires them to pursue their light that much more and, who knows, they may never meet the abyss at all because of you.

In the abyss, we saw nothing but darkness, whereas before, we only saw light, but in the eyes of every soul we meet once we find land once more, we now have the ability to see our own reflection inside. This is the purpose.