What is your purpose on Earth?

This question was asked once of me several decades ago when I was too young to know better and too old not to tell from right and wrong.
Now, I have the answer. It is to live as fully as I possibly can, give in return as much as I can afford and create as much joy as I can generate. And if I could and should do all these without taking my last breath, I can safely conclude that my life has been well lived and the angels are smiling as they welcome me in heaven.
Everybody's life must be for something. For one life to be meaningful, it must touch a thousand lives in a positive way. Who but us can do this and do it wilfully and joyously?
For is it not our pleasure to wait upon others? Has it not been said that it is in giving that we receive. So decrees the dictates of the laws of heaven.
Too many people harbour the notion that in hoarding as much as they can under the cover of the night, are they fulfilled. Countless others have fallen by the wayside, labouring under the illusion that to be frightfully rich in materialistic terms is to be successful. Is it not wiser to return as much as you can what you have received that you actually multiply your riches?
The spoils of the earth are as perishable as the food on your plate. It is in sharing that we partake in the joy of others. What profits a man who indulges in his own riches and not know the happiness he can create by offering his nuggets of happiness to others who may need them more than him.
The feelings of happiness cannot be erased by anyone. Once given, the joy stays. It becomes part of you and it eventually becomes you. If you have 10 million dollars, in real terms, the wealth accumulated is just paper. So long as the government of the day recognises its monetary value, you are deemed rich.
But then what is the definition of wealth? Wealth as compared to what? How do we label the very rich with the heavy security that they imposed upon their own physical lives as well as those who are close to them?
When material prosperity is equated with the shrinkiing of personal freedom, then where is the joy? If a rich man fears losing what he has already amassed in his lifetime and accumulated, then he has an equal proportion of fear to the volume of riches stored in the bank.
This naturallly leads back to the question: what is your purpose on earth?
If you are now 20 years old, you are apt to give a different answer to the above question as to when you are aged 60. A man at 60 has probably seen more, experienced more and lived more than a man of 20.
If at 60, you are still groping for answers to the eternal question, then it may be concluded that you have been trudging up the wrong avenue of life for a long time. If you gladly answered that your life has been well served by bringing joy and happiness to others, then others shall learn from you.
In our limited time on earth, the number of years lived is not important, even though many may diagreed. It is a life well lived, that others have benefited enormously that indicates a good life. How many of us can lay claim to this statement of life? How shall we account for our years on earth so far?
Life must surely be more than holidays overseas, cars, houses, money, family and loved ones. Many of us have all those mentioned and more but how many look beyond the obvious and see the light that shines from beyond our existence.
We are the walking lessons on this planet. We are the walking answers on this globe and we shall be the light that brighten up the world so created so that all is good will be fulfilled.
We must, we will and we can create the greatest version of the grandest vision of ourselves everyday of our lives on earth.





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