A life without purpose is pointless.

I love this week's prompt so much because it's something I always think about often. Several times I have thought to myself that if what we come to this life to do is just about growing up, getting married, achieving success, and also giving birth to another child and dying, then this life is useless. There must be more to it.

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We are born, we start crawling, then we begin to walk. After we begin to talk, our parents take us to school, and we start school, and life goes on. Before we know it, adulthood sets in, and we're trying to get things together. We all want the best things in life. After achieving one success, we want to achieve more because we're never satisfied.When someone is poor and sad, the person will think it's because they're poor, but after getting rich, they'll realize something is still missing and still need more. What is missing is that purpose; no matter how rich we can be, we can't be fulfilled if we haven't discovered our purpose.

What is Purpose?
A purpose is the reason for something, the intention behind something. I believe the creator cannot just create someone without a reason. Even we humans don't do things without reason, talk more of the creator.

Sometimes I feel disturbed, sad, and unfulfilled, and I start crying. I don't really know what's wrong with me, but I realized anytime I helped people, I feel happy and fulfilled. I also took a course on purpose, and from that, I realized we're here on earth to make an impact, not just to live and achieve. Everyone has a purpose on earth, and the purpose is to make an impact in the lives of people.
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I heard an interview of Femi Otedola, a Nigerian wealthy businessman. He said, "I am rich, but I still want to make more." I realized I wasn't satisfied. Then I heard about someone in need on the internet and rendered help to that person. That day, I felt happy and fulfilled, and that was what birthed his NGO foundation. A life of purpose is a life of impact. Your own purpose could be to help the orphan, widow, prostituted, helping people that have been addicted to hard drugs find life again, etc. It's not only through NGOs one can make an impact; one can make an impact in different ways.

A life of purpose is a life someone can say, "If not because of you, my life would have been a mess, but because of you, I find life." Because of you, my life has changed; that is a life of purpose.

From what I understand, here are some ways to discover purpose:

1. Seek guidance from the creator through prayer. Only a manufacturer can know the purpose of what they produce. Only a creator can know the purpose of what they created.

2. Identify what you love doing. I have a friend who always visits secondary school to teach students about sexual purity because she loves it.

3. Use your experiences to help others. Maybe you've lived a bad life before, and you don't want others to fall victim too. You can decide to use your story to lead the young people right.

4. Address issues you care about. You just dislike a particular life people are living, e.g., people taking hard drugs, prostitution, etc. You can decide to talk to those people and help them out of it.

If you have another way, you can also share in the comments section.

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@sirjoshua to also participate in this week prompt. The details of the promptlink}