By Pearson Mbendera
(New Of The South) – Open up a history book and you will read the fascinating stories of men and women who helped shape the world as we know it. Be it in politics, business, technology or any other area, you will find some people whose lives seemed to have been predestined to be great in what they did. Some dreamt about what they wanted to do (which they ended up doing anyway) from a young age, some just stumbled upon their path and owned it, became great out of circumstances. Now the big question is what’s your purpose?
It’s every person’s dream to one day leave a mark on this earth. Leave a legacy, and be well known for something great. People browse the internet, read all the how-to articles and still find it difficult to make the most out of their lives. The major thing sometimes it’s not about how well you do it, but what it is you actually do.
But it’s not everyone who is doing what he or she is supposed to be doing in life. I have met a lot of people who are successful in what they are doing but still aren’t convinced they are doing what they are supposed to be doing.
It’s not something that comes easy. You are not born already knowing what oath you are supposed to take. I remember back in primary school, when we were asked what we wanted to do in life. One day I wanted to be a doctor, the next a pilot, the other day I wanted to be a teacher and the answers kept on changing depending on what appealed to me that day. But as I grew older, my choices narrowed down, but still that didn’t mean I was on my way to my chosen path. By that I don’t mean the path I chose but the path that chose me, the one that was mine and mine only.
Browsing the internet, sometimes I marvel at how many people who are clueless about what path they are supposed to take and they spend the best part of their lives asking people what’s easy, what is hot at the moment, what is it they can do given their talents and questions like that. It’s all good trying to find help from someone else and make up something out of your talents. But there is no one out there who knows you more than you. Sometimes you don’t know yourself that well but at least you have more information about yourself than any person has.
We are all different in more ways than one and for that reason,
The greatest complication in life is trying to know what to do and what not to. For some people it’s an easy decision because they are good at a few things. But some other people so multi-talented that they find it difficult to choose the path to follow. Bishop T.D Jakes once said, “Just because you are good at something don’t mean you are supposed to be doing that thing.”
Most of the time we take the easy road, choose that path that we are familiar with, just so because we find less obstacles lined up along that road.
Have you found your purpose in life? Are you doing something that you believe was meant for you? We have been so focused on getting rich that we have forgotten about other things like being happy and changing the world for the better. Someone once said, “Do not go where the path leads, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” So what are you doing now? Have you found your purpose yet? Until you can find answers to these questions, your life will never be as amazing as you would have hoped it to be. Find your purpose, find happiness.
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