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Existence and purpose are two things that are inseparable. Though, one come before the other, but even at that, both are together and one cannot exist at the expense of the other.
One thing is to live first and another thing is to be purposeful with our existence. And like I said earlier, we for exist to live after which we now live for purpose.
Living a purposeful life is the main definition of human and there's no one that would not live with purpose, it's just that, our purpose in life might be different. Some might live a good purposeful life that's worth emulation and some might live it the other way round. Those living it the other way round too has those people that admire their existence and the purpose of their existence.
With my little analysis of existence and living a life of purpose, I would like to divide a purposeful life into two broad group which are the meaningful purposeful life and the meaningless purposeful life.
In life everybody that has breath is existing as there are those that has come and gone also. These sets of people had existed in the past and are no more, it's left to them if they lived a meaningful life of purpose where they achieved what had been designed for them by God to achieve or not.
But as for those of us that are still existing, the purpose of our existence varies from one person to another, to some, there purpose of existence is to live large, build houses, ride the latest cars, marry wives and give birth to good children.
All these are good and to me everyone wants to live such a glorious life. I would even say, all human can be found in this category, it's just that when things get wrong along the line, people now find themselves on the other side of the coin of living a meaningless life like I have earlier stated.
So, all those achievements that can linked to being successful and living a purposeful life listed above is all I also crave for. I love them so much and i believe for me to crown my existence with a purposeful life, i too must achieve all those things.
But beyond that, there's two things I would love to add to my own personal definition of a purposeful life. Though those aforementioned things are good as definitions of what a purposeful life should be, to me, they are not enough to define my own personal existence and because of this, I would say that serving God, our creation is one of those purposes we are existing.
Our God created us to serve him and it's His purpose of creating us to exist. So, aside from living large, serving God is another way to exist and live a purposeful life.
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Aside from this, the impact we have on others is another way of existence on purpose. If we actually want to live a purposeful life, we must live to leave a very good impact on the lives of people and this would be a very lasting legacy we would all remember. Though, there's no way we will not impact the lives of others, maybe in a good or bad way. But for it to be purposeful, we must make sure we do good to others by having a very good impact on their lives.
So, for us to live a purposeful life while we exist, we must know very well that serving God, our maker is very important and not only that, we must also make sure we impact the lives of those that are around us positively.
Though, building houses, having good jobs, marrying wives, giving birth to children, riding latest cars and the likes might be a good definition of living a very good purposeful life, but to me, to live a purposeful life is far far beyond all of these. While all these achievements are good, serving God and humanity in truth is of great importance to living a purposeful life.
Thanks for reading.
This is my entry to the Hivereachout weekly prompt.
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I'm inviting @KING.DOMZY, @Busted and @Modesty to come and particular in this weekly prompt.