What You Were Made For vs. The Purpose of Life.
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There’s a common misunderstanding about the purpose of life and what you were made for.
Many people treat these ideas as if they were one and the same — but they’re not. If we were made to feel, then of course we naturally seek to feel good. But what makes us feel good differs for each of us. That’s where the distinction begins.
Your purpose in life is something else entirely. It is either something that happens to you — or something you choose. But in both cases, the engine behind it is still the same: feeling.
Imagine this: You’re born into a prestigious family of lawyers. From the moment you arrive, everyone expects that you’ll one day follow in their footsteps — that you’ll take over the firm and continue the legacy of one of the most respected names in law. But as you grow, something else awakens in you: a deep, undeniable joy in playing football.
Your coaches encourage you, recognizing something rare — a spark, a talent that could make history if you choose to pursue it. You feel alive when you play. You feel connected, complete. It feels like your purpose. And then, one day, you’re forced to choose. Follow the family path, or follow your own.
The pressure is immense. You retreat into yourself. You think. You feel. And eventually, one feeling becomes stronger than the other. You choose law school.
You give up the sport you love, not because you stopped loving it, but because another feeling outweighed it — the feeling of honoring your family, of meeting expectations, of choosing security and belonging over uncertainty and passion. Becoming a respected lawyer becomes your life’s purpose. Not because it’s right or wrong, but because it’s what you felt you had to do.
A Constant Reminder and a Note on Responsibility.
Feeling is not a choice. Action is. Between feeling and acting, there is a space — and in that space lives responsibility.
Nothing in this text invites impulsive action. Every action assumes care — for yourself, for others, and for the world we all inhabit.
We are what we feel.
It’s never only about logic, duty, or reason — it’s always about which feeling becomes strongest in the moment. There is no moral judgment here, only the master line of code that governs everything: How we feel → toward how we would like to feel. That is what you were made for. Purpose comes and goes. But feeling — feeling is the constant. It’s what makes every purpose possible.
Notice that this kind of choice happens all the time, in every situation. Which university should you attend? Which profession offers the most benefits? Should you become a freelancer and live as a digital nomad? Marry and build a family, or travel the world free and unburdened, discovering new cultures? Have children or keep living for yourself? Buy a house or rent an apartment? Emigrate to another country?
You will make crucial decisions throughout your life. No matter how logical your reasoning sounds, it is always because you feel. The root is always the same.
And you may ask: What about free will? Doesn’t it exist? Am I just a slave to this master line of code?
Pause and look closely, and you’ll see: free will does exist — but only up to a point.
Your freedom narrows when it comes to how you feel; you cannot simply switch your feelings off. You cannot take a day off from feeling, nor put your emotions on vacation. What you are free to choose is how you respond to those feelings. You cannot choose the initial feeling, but you can choose the action that follows.
That choice — the decision about what to do in response to your feeling — is your free will.
In other words: feelings set the stage; your will directs the play. You didn’t choose the opening act, but you can write the next scene — and see how it makes you feel.
So the purpose in life is something deeply personal — it belongs to you, and to you alone. But the purpose of life, the reason why we are blessed — or perhaps condemned — to feel everything, all the time… that remains unknown. To answer that, we would have to understand the reason behind the code itself.
If you look at life as we know it — human, animal, or even plant-based — and compare the time we’re allowed to exist with the lifespan of the universe, our entire existence amounts to nothing more than a blink. The saying “life is short” might simply be a reflection of how brief we are, compared to the celestial bodies that outlive us by billions of years.
So, what is life then? Is it a checkpoint of some sort? A lesson? A ride we chose to take — a thrilling, terrifying, beautiful experience meant to be felt from beginning to end? Or maybe it’s a process — a long sequence of upgrades until we reach a state where we can feel life without needing a body at all? No one knows.
All we have are clues — fragments of understanding about how it works, but not why. We know that we were made to feel, and that we exist in a place that is always changing, evolving, constantly reshaping the way we feel. We also know that, compared to the vastness of the universe, this existence of ours is painfully brief.
It makes sense not to know the future — but isn’t it strange that we also don’t remember our past? I mean, we don’t know who we were, or where we came from, before being here, in this human form. One might believe it’s our right to know that. But maybe — just maybe — there’s a reason for this amnesia.
What do you think?
Any answer beyond this point drifts into speculation, of course.
So instead, I invite you to stay grounded — to understand why being aware of everything you’ve read so far truly matters. Why it matters now, in this reality, in this world.
