It was a sunny morning, a glorious one,
The Sky is blue and the winds blew gently.
He stepped out of the house smiling,
Ready for a new day,
Ready for new adventures and new explorations,
New opportunities and new fun.
He stretches out his hands and smells the morning aroma,
And he opens his eyes...

Something changes the moment he does,
He didn't have anything to do today...
He fumbles into his pocket and took out his planner...
The funny thing is its filled with chores...
However he felt there was no reason to...

To do all those things he had written down....
For in front of him there was everything...
A whole landscape of nature and beauty...
A whole landscape of everything...
Everything which there is to own...
But missing one thing that makes it all complete...

Why did he feel this way he thought,
What is it that was missing?
WHAT MORE IS THERE!!!
He shouted out loud,

then in the slience came the reply...

With all that he has,
With All the beauty,
With All the riches,
With All the things on the landscape,
He realized...
There was no one there to share it with....

He was poor after all...

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What do this story mean? More importantly what do this story want to tell you?

The purpose of Life is a Life of purpose..

"The Purpose of life is a life of purpose..."
-From The Monk who sold his ferari-

I've read this quote a few months ago and something about it really inspired how i wanted to live my life since i read it. It is from an awesome book given to me by one of my close mentors, Celine Chew. There was a time in my life last year that i felt really lost and depressed about things that i understood happening around me but i couldn't do anything about them. I see and understand things and situations differently from what people usually see and that made me frustrated because i couldn't express or communicate them very well. Don't get me wrong, i'm a very people's person however there are times it is just hard for me to explain what i know to the people around me; even my family.

I finally, understood what had made me frustrated and depressed. Other than just seeing and knowing things from a different perspective, i cared too much about what is happening around me and i allowed them to affect my mood. The thing is, i allowed myself to sway from the path that i was walking on and look at other paths. This might sound a little philosophical but (now) i really think that one should never stop to climb hills when one is trying to get to the other side of the mountain. You see, i was trying to do all this things in my life and at the same time do other things in order to satisfy things that i do not need to do. I lost sight of my purpose, my goal and what i was suppose to be doing. I ended up doing all those things that i should not be doing and worst, i did all those things that i didn't like to do.

I found out that purpose was such an important thing in life. And that it is so very true that "the purpose of life is a life of purpose". What is life without purpose? Keeping it short i found out two other things about purpose. 1)Your purpose inspires you to take action. And 2)Your purpose is much larger than what you do. What do you think?