PURPOSE OF LIFE

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

Consider a hammer. It's designed to hit nails. That's what it was created to do. Now imagine that the hammer never gets used. It just sits in the toolbox. The hammer doesn't care.

But now imagine that same hammer with a soul, a self-consciousness. Days and days go by with him remaining in the toolbox. He feels funny inside, but he's not sure exactly why. Something is missing, but he doesn't know what it is.

Then one day someone pulls him out of the toolbox and uses him to break some branches for the fireplace. The hammer is exhilarated. Being held, being wielded, hitting the branches and the hammer loves it. At the end of the day, though, he is still unfulfilled. Hitting the branches was fun, but it wasn't enough. Something is still missing.

So he longs for more action. He wants to be used as much as possible to knock things around, to break things, to blast things, to dent things. He figures that he just hasn't had enough of these events to satisfy him. More of the same, he believes, is the solution to his lack of fulfillment. 

Then one day someone uses him on a nail. Suddenly, the lights come on in his hammer soul. He now understands what he was truly designed for. He was meant to hit nails. All the other things he hit pale in comparison. Now he knows what his hammer soul was searching for all along.

We are like the hammer. We don't realize what will end the emptiness, the lack of fulfillment, in our lives. When we understand our purpose of life, it will fuel our drive. Once we know why we are here, we can get busy fulfilling the purpose of our life, as we understand it at the moment.

 

Everyone will have a different definition based on their experiences in life and their own set of values. When we do something that we believe is meaningful, we achieve a sense of our own worth and place in life.

Today is the day for us to determine, what does purpose of life mean to us?