who here on WP has a sense of purpose in life?

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I have had the great fortune to make a career of one of my special interests. I feel very purposeful lately.

Life is what you make of it with what you have.

My purpose, however, seems to be serving as an example against those who want to abdicate personal responsibility.

I'm okay with that. I would rather be called a jerk than a loser.

What about the option I do, but people think I can't do it based on my past and the sensitivities?

Others' opinion have no effect on your purpose, but may affect your pursuit of it.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw

I dont think everyone has that sense of clear purpose, or that we need a long term sense of purpose.

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I can't say that I do, really.
There are a few things that I've felt compelled to do almost my entire life, and I continue to pursue them, despite the odds being stacked against me. But those things are more for me than for anyone else.
There are some things that I feel compelled to do for others that seem way out of reach. And almost seem pretentious and delusional to think I've got any business at all to be thinking about. I think about it all the time, though, to the point that it distracts me from reality sometimes. And sometimes I see what I'm thinking about reflected back from the world (one way or another) and I feel like I'm basically on the right page.
Sometimes just not sure what to do, or how to do it, or if I should do it. And it all involves a huge amount of interaction with people, which I don't even know how to start.

I'm sure that's all as clear as mud...

No need to say that out "aloud"...
We all know that...

My main purpose in life is to finish Albert Einstein’s goal of relating gravity force to magnetism. In the process to do this, I have corrected some missing pieces of string theory to make it closer to reality. I actually have an equation that may relate the two forces, but it will need to be experimentally tested. Unfortunately current technology is not capable of doing the precise level of measurements needed for this test yet, so I may never know if I have the right relationship equation or not.

I feel like I have a purpose yes.

could you describe to me the nature of your purpose?

so far, the WPers with a purpose seem to be outnumbering the rest by far. at least on this thread.

My first ambition was to be a light house keeper. I didn't realize that one sometimes had to deal with a ship in distress anyway. My only continuing goal I got from my mother - she wanted to see the end of nuclear weapons, so the Air Force could feel good again, but I took it to mean ending war - generally learning a new way to be human. My talents are not in organizing, though, so I show up at protests, write letters, and vote with my dollars, etc.
I got into house renovations, and tried to build everything to last for a second hundred years, but noticed my work getting torn out for fashion changes. I tried craft work, but the customers seldom wanted practical things, and there was always the problem of competing with machines, and what kind of plunder people had to perform to afford my "luxury goods."
I helped out with a group giving free meditation lessons until they stopped growing. Then, at 27 I took stock of my interests and talents, and began to study a few topics in engineering to prepare for designing velomobiles. My prototype was very successful, but the field was only growing slowly, and I didn't do well with business partners. There followed years when I just tried to preserve my talents and stave off depression. Now, I'm fairly busy trying to get the seeds of what I've learned planted in younger minds to save them from making some of the same detours.

^^^i'm interested in learning more about your velomobiles

https://www.compositesworld.com/columns ... le-history

I was just eating breakfast with my hubby. I reached over and softly scratched his back, without being asked. He said "You make life worth living."

I told him he did the same thing for me.

I have a sense of purpose in my life. I am lucky in that -- in the 2nd half of my life -- I was finally able to figure a way to make a career out of one of my special interests, which is designing, installing and maintaining outdoor/garden landscapes, mostly those with flowering plants. The maintenance part includes pulling weeds, picking up trash and debris, controlling weeds, deadheading flowers, trimming bushes and trees, and watering plants either by hand or through in-ground irrigation and sprinkler systems. I'm more or less an outdoor property manager, where I take care of every single piece of a building's outdoor landscape. I've always loved doing that at my small home, and was able to get a first job doing those things, gained experience doing it for 5 years, and two weeks ago, started a new job doing those same things, but having greater responsibilities than those in my previous job, in that I now have many opportunities to design gardens and flowerpots across a large property, instead of just maintaining the grounds with only the rare and occasional design opportunity.

My sense of purpose is to make the world around me more beautiful to look at.