…I do, have done since I was a kid, except when your a young boy growing up you are certain you are going to be a professional footballer. If at one moment you realised how many other kids your age thought the same and you did the math, you’d have done one of two things train harder to make yourself better or you would have focussed more on another way to make it in this world. Like every other kid, I was oblivious to the situation and I was certain I was going to make it.
Now 27 and playing football semi-pro in the Ryman League, I’m asking myself what is my purpose? I know fame is unlikely and frankly not something I would chase, I’d sooner have fortune than fame and I’d sooner have happiness over the two, however I’m not naive enough to think that Money can’t bring you happiness, as anybody who say’s money can’t bring you happiness, hasn’t had enough money yet.
I know everything on this earth has a purpose and has a reason for being, but the question we at the top of the food chain have to ask ourselves more than any other, is what is my purpose? It’s easy to plod through life and get lost in the working cycle, making a wage that is going to see you through, but surely if we want to be happy and we want to be successful we have to better ourselves at every opportunity and strive to make the best and to be the best, not just for ourselves, but for our future.
The question shouldn’t be what is my purpose, my purpose is purely instinctive, my purpose is to reproduce…so that’s not the question, maybe the question should be what is happiness to me or how far will I go to gain my happiness? For me happiness is very Disney with a touch of Will Smith, i’m after a happy ever, or to put it another way in the pursuit of happiness. Happiness to me is me earning a wage that has me living comfortable, me being a great Dad and Husband, providing for my family, that to me is my purpose, my happiness and my goal.
To live as a human is very easy to do, everything is told to us and that which isn’t told is purely instinctive, it’s very easy to stroll through day to day life and live each day as it comes, ‘but to live doesn’t mean that your alive’, so many people will never reach the potential and many more don’t even care about it. That same person beat alot of competition to the egg, so since before they knew it they were not only a survivor but a winner, so within us all are those same instincts, it’s just whether you want to plod along in life or if you want to be the best you can be, ‘everybody dies, but not everybody lives’.
The start of the year shouldn’t have to be a trigger for change, we should always want to better ourselves, however a trigger of any kind is a start, i’m the bullet the finger is set and we’re pointed up, I’m going to go as high as I can, before I fall down. I’ve been wining since before birth and i’m not about to stop at any hurdles or obstacles, failure is not an option and to me not bettering myself/pursuing my happiness is failure. It’s selfish to think I’m living for myself in the here and now, I’m living today for my children and their children after them, the better I do now, the better we do collectively.
