Find Your Purpose

Not as easy as you think

Ben Shelley
4 min readSep 22, 2023
Photo by Ian Schneider on Unsplash

We are all here on this earth for a limited time. That could either be for a year, ten years, a hundred years or simply hours. It is something that defines our mortality in a unique manner as we are all born with this knowledge.

We all understand that we have but one life to live, yet whilst some acknowledge this, others fight to the death in order to try to deny it. To place their fingers over their ears and deny it until the end and some simply cling to religion as a crutch to lean on.

We feel as though a year takes forever when we are young, yet as we get older we understand that a year can disappear in the blink of an eye.

We start by feeling happy to lie in front of the television for days on end, watching absolute rubbish, then, when we are older we feel as though we need to justify the investment in time. There needs to be a return in the action and our level of critique increases.

Having a Purpose

Purpose is subjective much like which football team you support. Some stand steadfastly behind teams who are destined for failure as they have done across their entire lifetime, yet they continue.

It is mystifying for some whilst others have faith and believe that this level of support provides purpose to…

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Ben Shelley

Someone who has no idea about where their place is in this world, yet enjoys writing about books, education, entertainment and videogames