Three Life Experiences That Are Either Helping or Hindering Your From Your Life Purpose
Life is full of experiences. Some experiences are good, and some are bad. We take from those experiences determine if the experiences will help or hinder us from finding our life purpose. We all have two choices. Which choice would will you make?
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Let’s talk about the first experience:
Adversity is one experience that we all face at one time or another.
You may ask how adversity can help you find your life purpose. Well, the answer is simple.
Adversity can make you strong enough to overcome the challenges you face and create enough determination never to want to meet that type of trouble again. Sometimes the adversity we face is not because of our choices but the choices of others.
Here is an example of how a person can overcome an adverse situation.
There is a child who is in a homeless situation because of the choices made by their parents. The child goes to all the hardships associated with being homeless, but they never give up hope.
This child goes to school, gets good grades, and continues to preserve despite their circumstances.
During this situation, the child realizes that no one should have to go through anything like this. Although they are young, the child learns their purpose in life is to help other children facing a similar situation to overcome their circumstances.
Another more infamous example would be the story of how Alex’s Lemonade Stand started.
Alex was diagnosed with cancer. Instead of her being down and hopeless in her situation, she decided to start a lemonade stand to help other children like herself.
At the time, she may not have thought about this being her life purpose. But it shows how much our decisions in adverse can not only help us individually but others.
The Second Life Experience:
Conflict is another life experience that can lead some people to find your life purpose.
Going through conflict teaches people several things about themselves.
Some of the things conflict can teach you is how to interact with other people and how far you will go to fix things between those involved in the battle.
Some individuals fold under the pressure of conflict, while others excel.
Think about a parent and child in constant conflict because the parent feels the child should do one thing, and of course, the child feels they should do something else.
Yes, indeed, parents and children often do not see eye to eye, for no other reason than the difference in a generation. However, sometimes children know what they want out of life and have taken the time to figure things out independently.
A child who is sure what they want out of life will move heaven and earth to ensure they succeed to show their parents that they can achieve everything they put their minds.
The child doesn’t internalize the things the parent says and use those things not to follow their life’s dreams.
Children who deal with this type of experience develop the sink or swim mentality comes into play. Those who allow life experiences to push them more challenging to find their life purpose choose to swim above all obstacles.
The Third Life Experience:
Exposure to diverse activities is a life experience; I wish more of us used to our advantage.
Exposing our children and ourselves to diverse activities allows us to expand our world. This life experience can teach us what we like outside of our norm and the things we do not like.
Living life inside a proverbial box places a subconscious limit on us.
An individual that lives in the inner city may not know there is a world outside of the inner-city. Exposure to this different world can open the individual’s eyes to other things they find interesting.
Exposure offers us so many different options than the ones we see daily.
Think about people who leave their hometowns to go to college. Often when they come back home, people tell them that they have changed.
The reality is that they have broadened their horizon and have seen the world from a different perspective.
People evolve, and that is the best part of learning about yourself and life in general.
There is no set time or set method for evolving/growing, so do not let anyone, including me, tells you otherwise.
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