Have you ever seriously considered what life's purpose is? I mean seriously considered your purpose in life. I figured that there's one purpose in life that is to be better today than you were yesterday..but what does it mean?
It means your life must consist of the folowing..
1. You must explore
2. You must discover
3. You must learn
4. You must teach
5. You must Grow
To explore means unravelling mysteries, asking questions, diversifying in terms of the material you read, watch, listen to and the company you keep.
To discover means to weigh all lessons learnt and pick the relevant one that you are going to live by and pass on to others. A lot of people explore but never discover. Their search for answers always return void or they make a discovery but they are not knowledgeable enough to recognise it for what it is. Hence the constant search
To learn means to dissect the discovery into tiny bits of information pieces in order to discover the truth behind the answer. Just making a discovery is not good enough, you need to be wise enough to be able to apply the lessons learnt in your life. Learning means reflection, introspection and change. No learning can take place without a real interrogation and meditative examination into self and making a commitment thereon to change for the better.
To teach means to share your knowledge with others that will help them to grow in their journey of discovery. To teach is not to dictate, to teach is to show direction in an unthreatening way. As a teacher your role is to point towards the right direction and to encourage the student to follow through of their own volition. The student must be adult enough to make that step without necessarily being pushed.
Growth happens when step 1, 2, 3 and 4 has been achieved. The unfolding of your life will determine whether growth is taking place or not. Some people's lives unfold forward while some other people's lives unfold backwards. Forward unfolding means your life is progressing, significant milestones have been reached whilst a backward unfolding means you are worse off than you were 5 or 10 years ago or your exploration was a circular movement that took you nowhere.
Lots of people lead unhappy lives because they lack the courage and bravery that is needed to make that one bold step into the world of discovery. God does not make things happen for people, God points towards the action and man has to make it happen. In Setwana, there is a saying that goes..kgomo go tsoswa e e itsosang which means that the universe has no time for victim mentality...If you want to see things happen, you must learn to rely less on God, fate and destiny and more on your abilities to start actioning the belief and faith that you so dearly hold in your heart. No point in having hope if the mind is not up to explore. Hope means that the only time that you are going to see the light at the end of the tunnel is if you created it. The only time you are going to experience a miracle in your life, is if you create it as God has given you the intelligence and wisdom to make your own glory and not steal it from others. Victory can never truly be yours, if you have never worked for it. There are no ready made answers, effortless dreams and concidental achievements. If you haven't worked for it, you cannot claim it. If you falsely make a claim over someone's victory, it will soon be reclaimed because if you don't have the wisdom to find it, chances are you lack the wisdom to keep it.
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