I believe that in life everyone needs to find a purpose. Life is a long, painful and dark road and without a purpose it is practically meaningless. All we are as humans are walking flesh with brains, basically zombies. As humans, we have set responsibilities to go through when on this road through life. As humans work through these responsibilities at some point you find out what your purpose is, whether it 's getting your dream job or becoming famous. Unfortunately there will be some that struggle to find a purpose and some that do not find one at all.
My whole sophomore year I just wasn 't myself, I was always just down doing my own and really didn 't care about anything including my grades. I was just in the mindset of not caring about
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I walked around for a few hours still feeling frustrated for some odd reason. I found a bench outside of a park that I decided to stop and sit at. I sat for a while and eventually a man came and sat next to me. I didn 't care just like I didn 't care about anything else at the time. He sat silently for a few minutes and then roughly said “why are you here”?
I was quite offended as if I thought he was trying to kick me out. I wanted to say something to him and maybe even yell at him, but I looked at him and for the first time in at least a year, I cared. He had a bandage covering his eyes and had old baggy clothes on, I could only assume he was homeless. But the way I felt was unexplainable, I felt as if he wanted to be homeless and he sat down to specifically talk to me. I told him I was there because I wanted to walk around for a little. He didn 't move a muscle and said “No, Why are you here and why are you here tomorrow” then he got up and walked away.
I will never forget those words. I live by those words and I really wish everyone else did. That is when I found my purpose. I found my belief in everyone, no matter who you are, must find a purpose. I decided my purpose was to make everyone’s life better in any way I could. Whether that is to motivate them to ask someone out for a date or save their life in trade of mine. That is my