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Niall McGivern's avatar

Exploring my values led me to significant self-awareness and later, purpose. Great post.

Peter Petrovich's avatar

Late Fragment, what a great poem! Also, kudos for mentioning the urge to grow, and a dedication to the discomfort of growth, as a potential purpose unto itself :)

Alex's avatar

Loved it.

Ken's avatar

I never really thought of purpose as a unicorn with a purple mane. Evidently, and I don’t doubt this for a moment, your sense of purpose is at variance with mine.

Come to think of it now, I never really considered purpose. I was always too busy. 64” tvs, do they make those? Somewhere I have a tv, not sure where, but it was my father’s so now it’s mine. Never plugged it in. What would be the purpose?

Dee Dee's avatar

Excellent post and love the little pony!

Reena Kapoor's avatar

Sweet and wonderful, my wise friend!

Gary Boivin's avatar

Each day, I get up either with the sun or with the alarm buzz. I stretch, remind self what day it is and what my internal calendar says is important about the day. Then, I get up, get it together, check my white board calendar and go about the day's blessedness-or through its mayhem. Usually, there's a bit of both.

My purpose is to make the world just a bit better, each day, than it was before I woke. Most days, I can look back and say, there is this small tidbit along those lines: Emily Dickinson's saved robin or the starfish on the beach which got thrown back into the ocean.