Purpose is weird.
A dog can devote its entire afternoon to a stick.
Meanwhile, you're trying to work out what your life is for.
Let's start with a smaller question.
What matters to you?
Something you do.
Follow your reasons. See where they take you.
Something you want.
Change the conditions. See what makes a difference.
What you write stays in this tab.
What have you been putting your time into?
Something big or something ordinary.
You got somewhere.
Look at the distance between your first answer and your last.
You can care about that last thing without having one more explanation ready.
What do you want to do?
Would you still want to?
Hang on.
Why only two?
This page offered two ways to look for a purpose. You picked from the ones it gave you.
There could have been a third. Spend an afternoon making something. Help someone. See what you miss when you stop doing it.
Try it on a choice you're facing.
Perhaps the options are “stay” and “quit.” Could you change the hours? Learn something alongside it? Ask for something you haven't asked for yet?
I thought I had to choose between
I could also
I'll begin by
A few minutes ago, this wasn't on the page.
Now it's a possibility you can try.
Your next afternoon could look different.
Worth Building