life purpose or life theme?

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Mon, 10-23-2006 - 1:27pm

How do you go about finding out what your life purpose is? or your life theme? Why is it that some people know what it is from early childhood, and that some people never find out in their life span?

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Fri, 12-08-2006 - 2:35pm

You all give food for thought. Its interesting to me. Is our purpose to be happy, to be joyful? I mean obviously I would want to choose joy, but thre are times in my life when I have done what I knew was right- and it was very difficult, and far from joyful at the time. I have always felt that life was not just to be lived for me, for my joy or my pleasure, or even just for feelings.

It reminds me something my mom used to say. You know how some parents say they just want their kids to be happy. My mom always said she just wanted me to be good- the happiness would come as a natural consequence of that.

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Mon, 12-11-2006 - 6:09am
I kind of think we are living our purpose right now. It is just about making choices to learn lessons, I am still learning to come from love and not sure if I am always doing it the best but keep trying anyways. Maybe life is just the vehicle to learn. The beggar on the street could have been queen Tutu in her last life. Maybe she is living her purpose. I made her up. Love, leila
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Wed, 12-13-2006 - 1:32pm

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I couldn't agree more! I've always thought to myself that I was lucky to have a job, and lucky to have this, and lucky to have that, but it didn't really hit home until literally just a few weeks ago. We had a bad rainstorm here, and the local water supply was contaminated with runoff caused by mudslides. The entire city and surrounding municipalities were put under a boil water advisory. Suddenly people panicked - and I mean panicked - running out to the stores to buy bottled water. You'd think the Apocalypse had arrived. But I sat at home, calmly drinking my boiled water, and all I could think was "jeez - it's not like we don't have water at all". Do you know how many people in this world would be eternally grateful just to have water - any water - readily available from a functioning tap in their very own kitchen??? I have a kitchen, I have water available at the flick of my wrist, I have a kettle to purify that water - for godsakes, I even have ELECTRICITY to power that damn kettle. That's a heck of a lot more than what many people in this world have. Yet this wasn't enough for many people in my city - they were used to having clean water right away, and suddenly that luxury was gone - rather than be grateful for the luxuries they still HAD, they could only complain about the one they lost. "Oh what a pain in the ass this is", "why isn't the city fixing this faster", "this is so ridiculous"...... and on and on it went.

Talk about an eye opener. I went from a lifetime of thinking, "I know I should be grateful for what I have, but I still want more", to thinking, "I am so grateful for what I have - why did I ever think I needed more?" It's like my entire life has changed. Nothing is the same.

Life becomes a lot less stressful once you start appreciating what you have, and stop focusing on what you want.




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Wed, 12-13-2006 - 6:58pm
Excellent Karen. Leila
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Wed, 12-13-2006 - 11:26pm
You know I realised how lucky I was to have water coming out of a tap in Chennai (madras) this city has a serious shortage of water and even in my home there were days where NO water would come out. And yet some people 2-3 streets away from my home were living in a slum and had to plan their water need very carefully as first they had no tap in their home, and then because the well was filled once a day only and was to fullfil the need of a few hundreds people, the women were queuing with empty water jars to get some, and then probably had to boild it AND filter it over their gas stove or coal fire! And I was getting a 20 litres bottle of drinking water...I never made a fuss about late delivery of it, and would do just like you "boil and filter before drinking" when I had no other choice...hey at least I had water out of my tap and didn't had to walk a mile or so to get some :-)











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