| Ultimate purpose comes from relationships. What am I? A collection of organs. Each of the organs serves no useful purpose by themselves. So what if one pumps blood? So what if one flexes and relaxes? But then see it as part of the body and through that relationship the purpose becomes clear. Each organ is a collection of cells. All the cells do is get chemicals, make reactions, build protiens, etc. What good is that? But when you look at their relationship to the organ their purpose becomes clear.
So the little things we do: go to work, buy a house, eat a hamburger, are all meaningless in the context of mortality. It's all for nothing. But try looking at what each of us is part of and a greater purpose becomes clear.
Find identity in what you are made of and what experiences you came through. Find purpose in that you are part of and what effects your actions will make. |