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I Am I Here?

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Do you ever have those moments where you lay in bed late at night and all these deep thoughts come into your mind? One of those late nights thought could be what is my purpose in life? Why am I here? Sometimes we struggle to find the answer to those questions, sometimes we know the answer but as we keep pondering on the answer we start to doubt ourselves. So what is our purpose in life? Some would say my purpose in life is to be happy or to help others. There is an endless possibility of answers. But for me I would not be able to give them one simple answer because there isn’t just one purpose, there is multiple purposes. We are not put on Earth for just one purpose just like how we don’t play one role in life. That is why I believe that, …show more content…

Usually the first thing we think of when we hear hammer is something that is used to bang a nail but that hammer acquires a different purpose depending on its role. Just like us if we look at each of our roles we get a different purpose. For example, I am not just a daughter; I am an older sister, a friend, a girlfriend, a student, down the line a mother and many more. As a daughter, my purpose may be to make my parents proud, to someday give back as much as I can for the things they have done for me. As an older sister my purpose is to set an example for my younger brother and lead a path that will be easier for him. As a student, my purpose is to do well in my classes to earn my diploma so I can have a good career. And when I take on a role as a mother my purpose is to provide the best for my child. Our sense of purpose is from each of our roles that we take on. That sense of purpose is shape by influences around us and our own mentality.
Not everyone has the same purpose and that is due to the fact that we all have different background, different people around us, different desires and different mentality. In a Korean drama called, Seonam Girls High school Investigators, one of the girls is adopted by a fairly poor family. She knows her family won’t be able to put her through school on their own, so she takes on all these volunteer work, join every club, volunteer to be class president and study to be the best in all her classes. Her classmate hated her because of

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