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In The Search Of Purpose
What is it that you love doing? Find it, and pursue it at all cause. Success stories would always resonate with a message: “Never give up, never surrender.“
But how accurate is that?
Those stories that motivate a lot of people to follow their passion and aspiration, to follow what they love, can be flawed from a realism standpoint.
When we talk about love, we talk about subjectivity. Facing a life or death situation with a stranger, is very different than facing a life or death situation with your loved ones. A caring mother would give her life away for her child just out of sheer love. Rationality doesn’t exist, logic doesn’t exist, and objectivity doesn’t exist.
We can always argue the subjectivity or objectivity of those situations, however, we can never deny that emotionally charged situations we might face with loved ones will be highly influenced by our subjective senses.
So the question is, should we find what we love?
If we follow and pursue what we love, there is a huge complication. If you are coming from a subjective standpoint, thinking that you can follow those success stories, that you can achieve the impossible… Would you be able to think rationally and logically about it? Don’t get me wrong, you can pursue what you love and find your purpose in life, but…