Do you have a purpose? I purposefully came here of course; to get a job. But I have not prepared my Oscar speech, like all the other students in my acting class. Every one says you need to manifest and feel that want you want is here. But I am here and I kind of like being here. Very excited and getting here was also amazing. On the way here, I met this lady at the bus stop and she happens to be homeless, but she is an amazing poet. She told me how she is living off the grid and has hardly any carbon footprint. You don't just meet people like that when you take the car. It is soooo inspiring to see all there different people get up in the morning and have a purpose.
It actually made me realize that - beside coming here and meeting you - that, I do not really have a purpose. I actually had to look up the definition in the OED. You know what I mean right. The Oxford English Dictionary. The best things out there are not free; not even the dictionaries. Although, when I read Chaucer I stumbled across a word I did not find in the OED. I mean I found later versions, but the earliest version that the OED registered was a couple of centuries later. I wrote a letter to them pointing them to this great missing piece of information and they thanked me.
Do you think I need a purpose in life? The way I look at everyone else, is that everyone else wants things and wants to get somewhere and do something. I kind of just do it. You know I feel it and it reaches deep deep into my core. And then I feel feel it so deeply that I just breathe it all in. My surroundings, life, the feelings I have blended in with everything around. I just do things. I also think about doing things on occasion but that is only when I am hungry or not doing anything, because if you do not do anything. Then the thinking starts, but maybe thinking about doing things could that be a purpose? Once you think long about it and hard enough and then you chose one of the thoughts. Of doing and thinking about it and hold on to that thought as long as possible. That could be a purpose, right?
Just thinking about taking action? Or thinking about having a purpose, a reason to wake up each morning. There is courage in living, in getting up each day. At least a famous stoic once claimed.
