My Purpose, Why I Live and Breath
"Having a rough morning? Place your hand over your heart, feel that? That's called purpose. You're alive for a reason." This quote is by an unknown author and I believe it accurately states that we are all alive to fulfill our purpose. But, what is
my purpose in life? What was I made to
do? Many people have searched far and
wide trying to find their purpose in life.
At this moment in time I find myself being asked two questions that are
focused on helping me find my purpose after high school. These two questions are: “So, do you know
what college you are going to” and “What are you going to study in college.” Both of these questions are common questions
that I have begun to be asked by almost every adult that I come in contact with
since becoming a senior in high school.
Both of these questions focus on my purpose after school and really the
purpose of my life. After all, what I
study in college and where I study will determine my career and will have an
immeasurable impact on the direction of my life. These questions tend to stress me out due to
the fact that I really don’t know the answer to any of these questions! I know that I am under no pressure or impending
deadlines to find the answers to these questions but I still feel like I should
know the answers so that I can begin to plan my future. That’s right, plan my future. Planning is what I do, I’m a planner! It has
almost become an addiction because I have to plan out everything that I do and
if I don’t have a plan, I feel very uneasy.
I blame my dad because he is a planner too! We both should probably go to planners
anonymous! Also, I feel stressed by
these questions because I don’t want to make the wrong decision. But, even though I am scared to make the
wrong decision, by answering these questions I will be able to find my purpose easier. And as Jiminy Cricket once told Pinocchio “If
your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.” So as long as I put all of my heart into my
life’s purposes, then I will be able to achieve my purposes in life.
What is
my purpose in life? One part of my
purpose in life is my future career. And
in order to chose the correct career for me that will enable me to fulfill my
life purpose I believe I need to start with the basics that will lead me to
being able to start my career. The
foundation of doing so is first gaining an education. This is done in various different methods by
many people but how I am going to gain an education is through a four-year
university. But which university am I
going to attend you may ask? Well to
start off answering this question I will just come out and say it, I don’t know! I could not tell you for certain where I am
going to be attending college. But, I do
have my choices narrowed down to two universities: the University of Nebraska
at Lincoln and Wayne State College. At
the moment I would say that I am eighty percent sure that I am going to become
a Husker, but I still have college visits to both campuses so that I will make
the best informed decision.
The next step to gaining the
knowledge to start my future career is choosing what I am going to study in
college. So what am I going to study in
college? Once again, I cannot give you an
exact answer but I do feel more confident in my response to this question. Right now I plan to double major in
Psychology and Nutrition, Health, and Exercise Science with a minor in business
administration. After gaining these
degrees and minor I plan to attend either nursing or physical therapy
school. The choice between nursing and
physical therapy is where I am torn. I
feel that my purpose in life is to help others, I have always believed this,
and now I am unsure of which career completes my purpose. When trying to decide between these two
careers I first begin by thinking about the positives and negatives of
both. Many times while doing this I
decide one option is definitely what I want to do for the rest of my life but
then I start to think about the other career and I second guess my decision and
I am soon back to square one. I keep
flip-flopping between both options and this is one of the main reasons I chose
the majors above. By completely these
majors I will be able to have a solid foundation that will allow me to do
either nursing or physical therapy after college. Also, by earning these majors I will be able
to decide during my studying in college which career is right for me instead of
finding out the hard way after graduating college and discovering that I made
the wrong decision.
All of these steps help
determine the purpose of my career in life, but my life is not just based on work,
my life has many purposes, goals, and dreams.
As Mary Poppins says, “Go and chase your dreams, you won’t regret it.
Anything can happen if you let it.” One of
my goals in life is to find and marry my “prince charming”. Another of my goals in life is to become a
parent. Both of these goals lead
directly to my belief that becoming a mother is one of my purposes in life! A different purpose I feel compelled to
complete is helping others through volunteer work such as mission trips. My past mission trips have been accompanied
with the desire to do more to help and to give back to others. And as a result I am attracted to completing
more service and volunteer work in my future.
One more purpose I feel that I have deals with my grandfather. And I know that I talk about my grandpa a
lot, but that is just because he was such an instrumental part of my life! My grandpa Cerveny was a man that lived life
to its fullest, loved with his whole heart, and gave everything his all, never
quit and worked hard, and somehow made whoever he was talking to feel like the
only person in the world. I feel like it
is my purpose in life to try and live in such a way that I make such a positive
impact on another’s life, like my grandpa did to mine. Christopher Robin has said “That’s what
friends are for. They help you to be
more of who you are.” I’m not saying
that I am motivated to do this so that everyone will like me and I can be best
friends with everyone, I am saying that I believe one of my purposes in life is
to live in such a way that I make the world around me a better, positive place than
contributing the world in a toxic manner.
The
Merriam-Webster dictionary defines purpose as “Something set up as an object or
end to be attained” but I believe that the word purpose holds many diverse
meanings across the globe. And,
consequently, people’s purposes in life differ as well. I am not one hundred percent sure of what my
purpose is but I have hopefully just described, in my blog above, I do have
areas where I feel drawn to pursue. And
I have recently learned life doesn’t always go as planned and my purposes are
bound to change many times before I leave this earth. But, as Zayn Malik, a member of One Direction,
has said “Life is funny, things change, people change, but you will always be
you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.” As long as I remain true to my values and
beliefs my purpose will be clear to me.
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