What's your purpose?

[alaa atif]

6.773 billions.
That's the number of people on earth suggested by the United States Census Bureau.
Think of this number, try to guess the percentage of people who would come to this world, feed, grow, reproduce and eventually hit six feet under, people who might have no serious problems but boredom and void. A life of obsolete, perhaps just adding to the troubles of this world.
What's your purpose in life? nothing is too big or too small, just has to qualify as reason to you.
whom do you look up to?
what do you want to leave behind?
did you ever think about it?

[Jane Doe]

I honestly don't know, I never get close enough to anyone to make a positive impact on them or vice versa because even though I think that everyone's got at least one big thing about them that puts a chip on their shoulder or may be hard to swallow (I've got probably 6, 5 can be changed), I just don't think I can trust people with the things

I don't really know who I look up to, I try not to look up to anyone because they're only human and they'll do something to let me down

I don't know, I'm only 14 (11 days from 15) so I guess I just don't have anything worth leaving behind

too much thinking makes people go crazy

[alaa atif]

Well, Miss Doe...
to make a positive impact, i doubt it always requires a personal approach. you can post something somewhere and someone would read it and it might just contain the perfect answer for a question that might have irked him. it can be an artwork. it can be an anonymous act of good. it can be any thing...on the other hand-and i'm not saying that this is a general fact- but sometime when you get too close to a person you might just wreck unexpected havoc...some people are just aflame, we need to witness their light and their warmth from a safe distance.
not looking up to anyone, as much as i respect the fact of being your own idol or at least having your own uninfluenced saga of struggle...yet we are humans too, and at some point we might prove ourselves to be the hardest disappointment...think about it, we know ourselves-supposed to know ourselves-more than any one else...it's fine if people let us down, it's fine if we let ourselves down. as long as the bright side is strong enough to make up for flaws, as long as it leaves them redeeming options.
well, you're still 14-almost 15-happy birthday in advance. what do you want to leave behind? what sort of legacy? doesn't have to be material.
too much thinking does make people go crazy i agree, I've been talking to a friend-some one i look up to in a specific way-who's taken his major in psychology, and he told me about the ward where he fulfills his shift in. that was the only thought i had in mind
"they were just too sane"
we need illusions.

[Craig Turner]

Long story short; I'm here to serve others. Two and a half years ago I started working as a caregiver for a not for profit hospice and it's like I found my calling at the age of 38. It's so humbling because the smallest things can mean the most to others. I was changing a light bulb for one of my patient's wife the other day and noticed one of her other bulbs was out. I offered to change that one too and the wife said, "Oh that's OK, you've done so much all ready.". I told her, "Mrs. So-and-so, I look at it this way; if I am coming to your house it means your family is going through the toughest time of your life. There's not enough I can do for you.". I know it may sound contrived but I really do live my life by the principle of....

"Become the change you want to see in the world."

[alaa atif]

Greetings, Mr Turner.
You know when you have your dark days when you entirely lose your faith in the mankind including yourself, and you just see something that breaks that circle of disbelief?.

A life of granting second options, smiles, servitude. I wouldn't assume the perfection of such life, but i believe in it's utter beauty.

No need to speak of the legacy you'd leave behind, tens of lips praying for your peace in your six feet under cradle. A stranger in the other side of the world who'd mark your words forever, become the change you want to see in the world.

I do acknowledge that you don't need to hear this, but my absolute respect to you, sir.

My apologies for my English, ladies and gentlemen.

[Craig Turner]

Well thank you very much and your English is fine.

Ya know after reading Jo's post below it becomes clear that even if we don't know what our purpose is or if we thing we have no purpose we really do. Sometimes just living, surviving and getting through the day is all purpose we have, or need.

[alaa atif]

no doubt, i mean...it's not as easy as it sounds for many people

[Jo]

My purpose? I wish to spread the awareness of suicide. A few months ago I learned that every two seconds, someone in the world attempts suicide, and that every twenty seconds, someone succeeds. That realization made a big impact on me, and I wrote about it in a school speech (insignificant, but that's where we start.) I calculated it out, and after my four minute speech was over about 120 people had attempted suicide and 12 of them had succeded.

But who I thought about the most were the 100 npeople who had not successfully killed themselves. Think about it...what happens to THEM? There is one case where a man tried to shoot himself, missed his brain entirely but blew his face off.

Spreading that awareness is my purpose. I realize that there is no way to end suicide entirely but if I could save just one person's life --or empower someone to save a person's life-- that would be just amazing.

[alaa atif]

and those who fail without a debilitating injury are most likely to try again, and they've learn their lesson...so there's a bigger chance of success...
i've once heard a definition concerning suicide-or the attempt of it-as a momentarily insanity...i've never swallowed it, i mean...insanity doesn't seem to be the correct word
yeah i've seen that man in some show...what do you think it takes for someone to change his mind about suicide? support? more strength? a better reason? i mean...let's say there is a complete stranger who's considering suicide seriously, what would you exactly do?