CONSCIENCE

When Having a Purpose Does Not Make Your Life Any Better

Here is what you need to ask yourself: is my purpose self-serving or does it go beyond me?

Myriam Ben Salem🦋
Know Thyself, Heal Thyself
3 min readApr 11, 2021

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I believe in a meaningful life and its direct contribution to our satisfaction! It’s part of our human nature and one of our four dimensions — To live (Body), to love (Heart), to learn (Mind), and to leave a principled legacy (Spirit).

We all crave leaving our blueprint deep inside even when we can’t put it into words. Nonetheless, we rarely take a chance on ourselves.

Our lifetime of conditioning discriminated against our intrinsic value. Our caregivers asked us to fit in and prove our worth, daily, by aligning with the status quo.

Consequently and as a natural result, most of us go for a financially secure choice that could guarantee to provide for ourselves and our families in adulthood.

What we are unfortunately not paying attention to is that, by suppressing even a part of our needs, we are slowly killing ourselves from the inside.

In addition to the satisfactory attribute for the person having a purpose, why is it important as well? Because purpose drives change. One may ask a legitimate question at this point:

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Myriam Ben Salem🦋
Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

A fur Momma, animal lover & advocate, lifelong learner, storyteller, edutainer, and published author. I write personal stories and essays.