The Living Accidentally series has been about finding your own path to life. It’s been about living with purpose instead of waking up everyday being part of someone else’s journey. To find satisfaction with life, you will need to wake with purpose.

Purpose can be defined by anything you want. That’s the beauty of living with your own purpose, walking your own path. It can be driven by anything you want.

I’ve been writing about this because these articles are directed at me, more then anyone else. I’m finding that looking for purpose, trying to enjoy life, searching for life meaning, trying to be happy, etc. has all been very elusive.

The irony in searching for purpose is that the more you search for it, the harder it’ll be to grasp. It’s like trying to love and squeeze a cat or dog. The harder you try to love it, the more it seems to want to squirm away (for many pets anyways…). But when you ignore it and wait for it to come to you, it’ll come by and allow you to pet him/her.

Purpose seems like that. The more you try to find it, the harder it seems to be.

This isn’t to say that you should sit and do nothing and eventually purpose will come up to you. The journey we should be going down is to begin to know yourself. Find out what your priorities are. Find out what your values are. And the only way to do that is to start doing things.

I’m definitely stuck in a loop, because as I write this, I’m realizing that I have written some version of this in an earlier article. I’m really pushing myself today to get this article written. And as shitty as it is, I’m going to post it anyways, because this is part of my path to learn more about myself.