Are You Living On Purpose?
Fate, Faith and Destiny
The Will to Fulfill
Do you have a sense that you are living to fulfil your destiny?
There is a long-standing argument about free-will versus destiny, or if both ideas are true.
Fate as a Tool to Lower Stress
Having a sense of destiny can have a calming effect on common anxieties and obsessive compulsions.
If you want to reduce the chaos of your world, fate can be a handy tool for calming your mind.
If you stop to think about all the things that could go wrong in the coming moment, you might feel overcome with anxiety.
A meteor could hit the earth, and on, and on.
However, if you have a sense of fate, you trust that you are here on purpose. If something terrible were to happen, then so be it.
Faith Keeps you Pushing On.
Suppose the great characters and figures we now credit for many of our most significant breakthroughs like Einstein, and Leonardi DaVinci did not live. Would the world as we know it today be a radically different place?
What was it that motivated them to pursue the lofty goals of discovering the nature of the known universe through mathematics and science?
Maybe they loved the pursuit. Perhaps these historical figures were naturally gifted, maybe their parents were very pushy and gave them specific psychological tools that allowed them to achieve such great results…
It is easy to look at the great scientists and imagine a logically smooth trajectory of upbringing, career, works and death and view a linear pattern from beginning to end.
Simplytry?
Not only did they have to struggle to get their work recognised and received, but if you think about it, there must have been trying times during the lives of these people.
Life events would have indeed occurred that may have stopped them in their tracks. Disputes and feuds may have interrupted their focus as they succumbed to all the psychological laws of human of nature that we all do.
What kept them pushing through the tough times when they wanted to give up and no-one believed in their work?
Faith as Fuel
They all had some faith.
Faith interpreted as a sense of greater intention or destiny to fulfil our ultimate purpose.
If you are working on what you believe to be your life's purpose, you feel fulfilled. When you go against your life purpose, you do not feel fulfilled.
This feeling of being on-purpose is what can help you get through the hard times and welcome challenges as they inevitably come.
Driving Destiny
At any moment on the road, you could die, but you have a belief in the system of driving (and laws) that keeps you calm and level headed while cars are racing towards you at breakneck speeds.
Pedestrians are at risk, but this does not stop people from walking next to roads and crossing streets.
The only thing that keeps the pedestrian safe is painted lines and a set of driving rules.
You must trust that the people on the road will obey lines on a suitable path with purpose.
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it - The Alchemist
Life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you - Jim Carrey