Purpose

It’s hard to put your mind into something you are not created for. You will often make mistakes, thus having poor results. Having poor results leads to angry bosses and unfulfilled life, especially if you’re going to do it for fifty years. Retirement is a long way off, and it should be the journey that’s important not just the destination.

If you ask the maker of a mug what is it for, he would tell you it’s for coffee. Obviously, it’s not for cleaning the floor right? Only the maker of the mug knows what it is created for, its purpose. It’s pointless for the mug to be forced into doing work for cleaning the floor, and it’s ridiculous! Why would you use something that is not supposed to do?

For people, the same is true. It is imperative to know our purpose before pouring your whole life to it, or else we became angry and frustrated. So, to know our purpose the earlier the better. We can invest our precious time on things we really enjoy and have a fulfilling life.

No one else can say what our purpose is except for the Maker. Only the maker of things knows exactly what it is for and no one else. Just like the mug, the maker of that mug knows only that it is created for coffee, and thus doing as it supposed to do will, therefore, fulfill its own purpose.