Purpose Was Never About Me: A conversation that changed the way I see everything.
Yesterday I sat down with someone and we started talking , the kind of talking that starts casual and ends up going somewhere you didn't expect. We were talking about purpose. And somewhere in the middle of that conversation, something quietly shifted for me. We've all asked ourselves the question at some point. What is my purpose? We frame it as a deeply personal search, something to discover alone, like a treasure buried somewhere inside us, waiting to be uncovered. I've spent time with that question myself. Turned it over. Examined it from different angles. And for a long time, I thought the answer had to do with me. My passions. My fulfillment. My happiness. But yesterday, my friend said something that stopped me: "Purpose isn't something you find inside yourself. It's something that happens between you and other people." "We think we're doing things for ourselves. But we're always, always, doing them for someone else." ...