Have you ever thought to yourself, "what am I going to do in my life?" It's a question that comes to all of us, but we don't necessarily have an answer. It's one of those things that we expect to just come to us in our later years. But what if I told you, that you could find your purpose now. So many times we just push aside trying to find out what we actually want to do in our life because we find the normal everyday life we lead to be comfortable. I agree, change can be scary, and unsettling, but would you really want to live a life where you're constantly wondering what would have happened if you went out on a limb and reached out for your dream?
Let me tell you the people who you see being successful aren't the ones who played it safe, they took a chance and it paid off.
But before you start going out and trying to live out your dream, you need to know what it is first. A lot of people think it's hard and takes a long time to figure out, but to be quite honest it's really not. All you have to do is think about what you keep coming back to, what's the one thing that is always on your mind (and I'm not talking about that crush you've been longing to talk to), your purpose is that one dream, that one desire that has never left you. God made you with a purpose in mind, if you ever have trouble understanding what you are supposed to do in life seek God. Remember he had a plan for you before you ever came into this world.
Your purpose should never feel like work to you, it should feel like it's something that completes your life. So many times we think it takes hard work to feel like we're doing something valuable in our life, that it doesn't matter what we're doing as long as others think we do it well and that it brings a good pay check. Well, your purpose isn't going to be any of that to you. It's not going to matter if it brings in a good salary, nor will it matter if people think what you're doing is important or not. It's going to be the very thing you wake up in the morning for.
Now with that said, I also want to urge you to look in yourself and ask if there is anything holding you back. Everyone understands having a tiny little fear that makes you push off something that you have been wanting to do. It's like when you start going to a high school youth group - new place, new people, and it's going to be your life for the next four years. Now on your first day you might say to yourself "I'm going to be sociable and meet tons of people." But after that you might start thinking, " Well what if I come off as too needy or I say something stupid?" If you let yourself continue to ponder on that thought there is a very good chance you would keep to yourself throughout the whole event. Even though you wanted to go out and meet new people, one little fear held you back.
As a teenager, I know the fear of having a plan for the future and people not taking it seriously, or more over, they don't take me seriously. I've been told by many people, "Stop trying to grow up so fast and take time being a kid." I won't lie, hearing that always hits hard. It's like they are saying, "stop being who you want to be and play dumb for a little while." There's this thought out there that kids should just go to school, do their homework, and hangout with friends on the weekends. That is your job through age 1 to 17, but then comes 18 and people expect you to have your life planned out. You should have a job, know what university you're going to, what you're going to major in, all in about a year. Now if you ask me that seems a little counter intuitive. You tell people throughout their life that they just need to chill out and just be kid, and then all of a sudden you tell them that they need to have a life plan because they hit a certain age. How is a person supposed to develop a quality life plan, when all of their life they have been told that their talents and abilities are practically useless simply because of some numbers on a birth certificate. In all reality if people encouraged them to find out what they wanted to do in life at an early age, they could have already known what they were going to do in life before they ever reached 18.
my reason for saying this is because I think a lot of teenagers or younger, people of any age really, can feel this way sometimes. If you're in this position right now I encourage you to forget what all these people are saying to you and reach out for your dream. It doesn't matter what your age is, if you know what you want to do with your life, if you have found your purpose don't wait to start acting upon it, start now. Take a chance, you'll be amazed at what God can do through you.
- Rian
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