It’s a question that’s troubled us since we were young: why are we here? For some the purpose of living means finding success or happiness. While for others there is no purpose because it’s all random and nothing exists after life. Our idea of “purpose” tends to be based on our own moral, religious, and political beliefs. Which, as we know, differs extensively from person to person and culture to culture. This question has been asked, presumably, since the beginning of humankind and we’ve yet to uncover an answer.
As much as we wish and hope for clarity to this answer, we’ve realized there’s no one on Earth past, present, or future that can definitively say what our individual or collective purpose is. So we end up creating and following our own definition of purpose. There are those that know early on that they were born to sing, be a comedian, or save lives. They can sense their calling. But unfortunately not everyone figures out what their purpose is. So some decide that they have no purpose, thus there is no purpose.
Whether we find it or not, it’s logical to conclude that if a significant number of people claim they found their purpose -sometimes later in life- then individual purpose does exist. This leads us to question, if we each possess an individual purpose is there also a collective purpose for humanity?