Purpose

  What Is Your Purpose?
 
Each of us is the summation of all our experiences plus our genetic makeup plus our actions.
None of our past acts can be diminished. None should be enhanced beyond fact.
We can never undo damage we have caused. We can only attempt to diminish further damage that might be caused by repeating our mistakes.
We often have the opportunity to identify, delineate, and attempt to achieve a new purpose. Few people ever do. Most people simply pause their way through life settling for little achievement and rationalizing why they compromise themselves so often. And that describes the best of people, those who actually consider achievement. Most people do not actually contemplate purposeful achievement.
Of course, most people believe -- no, they know -- they deserve better than they are receiving. If only they stopped waiting to receive and applied themselves toward achieving what they know they deserve, mankind would be achieving more than it is.
Pathetically for mankind, little is literally as much as most people care about achieving.

Most people see the opportunity to achieve a purpose approaching and consider it to be too much effort. They step aside purposefully in order to avoid the opportunity to achieve. In doing so, they fail in another -- and meaningful -- way to achieve a purpose.

What do most people's purposes consist of? Do they apply themselves toward achieving their purpose? How do they apply themselves toward achieving that purpose? Are they concerned that they may not achieve their purpose?
Do they even have a purpose?
If they do identify and work toward a purpose, is it something that will in the long-term contribute to mankind's purposes?
No, watching their favorite team win the Super Bowl is not a purpose. Nor is watching their children grow, a purpose.
Too many people's identified purpose seems to be working to diminish other people's efforts in order to elevate themselves on a relative basis.
Imagine how much some people could achieve if only everyone else stopped meddling and minded their own business.