Is It My Life Purpose or Me Being Crybaby?

[SimpleGuy]

Hello. I`m figuring my life purpose in life (I`ve gone through Leo`s course.) and when I think of when animals suffers it makes me cry and I want to change it.

But I doubt a bit that it is just my feminine side (I`m man) acting out and that`s it. Maybe this is my purpose and I`m just overthinking? Who feels the same towards animals?

Thank you for reading. 

[Ramasta9]

Your purpose is to be you, fundamentally.

Every moment is a new moment, you'll never have a fixed purpose, because there is not such thing. Rather you are always shifting - intuitive to each moment, and through this living purposefully  Everyone with an open heart feels for all beings, not just animals.

 

 

[Human Mint]

Nothing bad about it, except it doesn't help animals .

Something as simple as building cat corridors for houses can be a life purpose. You're enhancing their otherwise depressing lives inside apartments.

[Sincerity]

You can start doing something and see where it leads.

Decide on a preferred channel for the expression of this energy/purpose. For example, volunteering somewhere or creating quality content raising awareness of animal suffering. Then, in your spare time, start actually acting on your idea.

Just try. Take some action. You might find it's not that appealing after all, which is alright. And if it is, then go further with that.

Edited 23 hours ago by Sincerity

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

Going down the path of a veterinarian might not be a bad idea, especially if you really enjoy spending time with and taking care of pets or animals in general, you can only really find that put by direct experience. Might be a better idea to become a doctor if you got the stomach for it, as they are surely decently paid in any economy (in proportion to that particuliar economy ofc) and you might avoid getting picked for direct action in case things go south, you know what I'm saying

[ryoko]

We need to properly define life purpose in this context. If we take it verbatim it makes no sense because life has no purpose. 

LP here is an attempt to align your social self with your true self. Social self will always be compromised in many ways and these two selves will always have some conflict.

We need to understand social self is a construct we keep for survival. It's easier to survive when this construct exists. You have to contribute to society to survive without too much trouble and it's in no way efficient, many people struggle to survive regardless of this society's existence, hierarchies exist, so many disgusting dynamics all around, it's simply an efficiency problem, it's best you don't take this personally or get too identified with survival process and calling it "life". We have little control over how the society will turn out. You're just one in 10 billion. No matter how much power or money you amass, all of it is simply a dynamics within the social sphere. A planet getting nuked by the will of a single person, everyone on the planet is equally responsible, because social implies collective, material. Meaning no amount of control will truly amount to anything. 

Life is a heavily misused word("that's life", "life's hard", "life purpose"), I don't like to use it for some activity you do while alive. Life's what's within, and life has no purpose. It simply exists. (and do not confuse my usage of "true self" with life, it's just your internal reality)

I'm trying to find a more clear word for this concept: Societal Directive may be more accurate.

But now we've entered the territory of how much people are disconnected from their true self. And societal directive can become a misnomer easily. It gets solved if you are integrous. "Integrity is the measure of alignment between being and function." Maintaining integrity doesn’t mean achieving perfection or escaping compromise — it means continually recalibrating the social self to remain coherent with the true self.

Another term is Human Function: almost clinical in tone, detached, suggesting it's what you do as a species. 

Whatever we do, we can enjoy it, feel annoyed at times, but ultimately it's not required. Life doesn't require some function, survival does. 

So “life purpose,” properly understood, is not about achieving something external but maintaining integrity — keeping your function coherent with your being. In this sense, “life purpose” is not something to achieve but something to maintain: an ongoing coherence between inner truth and outer expression.

Edited 12 hours ago by ryoko

[ryoko]

"Life purpose" is a luxury in that sense. Human Function will turn into mass slavery which is called jobs in the capitalist society. 

The frame that your function has to align with being will cause massive conflicts because most can't afford it simply. Now I understand why most people discourage you from pursuing what you love.  

This is not a universal mandate. It's a class privelage: the degree to which you can maintain integrity between being and function depends on how much structural freedom you have.

Edited 11 hours ago by ryoko