Defining My Lefe Purpose

Defining My Life Purpose

( 2009.02.07)

For years, there were couple of questions haunted me:" why am I here?  where do I want to go? and how can I get there?", when I ate, breathed , shopped--without knowing why--those question sprung up in my mind unconsciously, I am afraid to say, the answer, always eluded me in my college life, and sometimes, it made me unhappy, even in a time, I addicted myself into the video game.

Deep down in heart, I know clearly that even God cannot help me if I abandon myself, every day ,every hour, every minute, is precious, which I have wasted so much before. In the journey of finding the answer. I read lots of successful people's biography, from businessman to astronaut, from scientist to artist. I do not care what a large scale of wealth they have earned, how famous they are, but the way how they conquered the obstacle they faced, I envisioned one day I too would become a person as successful as them.

Since each person is unique, from DNA to fingerprint, from tone to the color of eyes, it is reason to believe that each of us also has a purpose, a reason for being. Just like a philosopher wrote in his book:”the thing is to understand myself, to see what God really want me to be,  to find truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live or die”.

As to me, I want to be the one to who has achieved what I set out to do when I am old.

A turning point came when I realized that the purpose do not necessarily involved grand ideas or revolutionary inventions. Instead, it is often spring from a commitment to be faithful in even the most undervalued tasks. And the most important part, and yet the most difficult of fulfilling a life purpose is actually doing it.

Also, I come to the realization that the greatest of lives made all in the same way: One challenge...One hurdle...One step...and One samll victory at a time.

So today, I set my dreams and goals in words as a reminder to prevent me from getting lost in the journey.

  

Every morning, when I wake up , without knowing what to do today, just have a look at here.  

1.          I want to be a software architect with the ability to finish a medium-scale project, from high-level design to low-level implementation.

2.          As American is the most prosperous and powerful nation on the earth, and its unique culture has attracted the most brilliant minds, and many significant inventions are hatched there. I want to live in American at least three years.

3.          The relationship between China and Japan is playing a more and more important role in the world, especially in economic aspect. And Japan has renew itself in an amazing speed from ruins after the second world war. There must be something important we need to learn from it. So when I settle down, I will learn Japanese and its culture and find out how they made the miracle happen.

The road ahead will be long, the climb will be steep. But those values upon which the great things are made--hard work and courage, tolerance and curiosity, initiative and passion--these thing are true, they are the quiet force of progress in my mimd, and they are the source of my confidence. Let's be told by my children's children that when I was tested I refused to let this journey end, that I did not turn back, nor did I falter. And with eyes fixed on the horizon and those faith in mind(to be continued)