How To Turn What Your Have Into Purpose by Mandela Philip Thomas
No matter where in history or in our own lives we look to answer the question of who we want to be, there is a part of us that already holds the answer. Often, however, that part is ignored, hidden by our own confusion and the distracted nature of our personal journeys, only to return much later. We must remain open-minded and explore different aspects of life. By testing various experiences, we will surely find the one area where we shine brighter than all the rest. That is where we must seek to fulfill our being.
I have lived through many chapters of this journey, only to discover a strange inconsistency; the more I achieved, the less fulfilled I felt; yet the less I achieved, the more I felt a desperate need to do more. This cycle was a relentless phase of my life, fed by the fact that an important part of my soul remained disconnected from my destined reality.
I sooner or later realized that my achievements were deep because they were isolated. The missing piece was a transition from the personnel to the collective. I was disconnected because I was seeking to satisfy my own desires, while my true purpose was calling me to serve society.
I felt the need to define hope across every aspect of my life, my society, and the generations I represent. This calling was my greatest fight to accept because I felt so far from what it takes to stand for that purpose.
There came a specific weight to the need to define hope, not just for myself, but across every aspect of my life, my society, and the generations I represent. For a long time, this was my greatest fight. I resisted this call because I felt I was too far from what it takes to represent such a purpose. I looked at the person I was “achieving” to be and the person I was “destined” to be, and the gap between them felt impossible to bridge.
Accepting who I truly came with a heavy price. It cost me almost everything I had built in the “wrong” life. When we hold too tightly to a position outside our true purpose, we create a resistance that pressures every movement we make. We move through life under a heavy weight of our own making, only to face regret when we realize we have been refusing to be who we truly are.
But life has a way of redirecting us through this very resistance. The pain of being in the wrong place in time exceeds the fear of moving to the right one. This redirection is not a punishment; it is a structure to our true selves.
When we finally align with the right path, the resistance pressure dissipates. In its place, we find something far more sustainable than achievement; we find fulfillment, true accomplishment, and a renewed sense of hope for the world and the society we serve.
This is where purpose finds its true meaning. The objective of purpose is not to boast of what we can define in history or society. Rather, it is an aspect of our being that we have a responsibility to define. It is our duty to act with meaning, providing hope and a destination for ourselves and others. In the end, it is this purpose—and the change we bring to the whole that truly defines us.
Experiences are not designed to make us rush into decisions; rather, discovering what we are truly good at is what sets us apart in history.
Experiences are great to have and diversify but experiences are not designed to force us into a race or decisions but to add to our true values at what we are good at. Also, they are meant to help us discover what we are truly good at. Finding our own place in history, it is not the speed at which we move that sets us apart, but the unique aspect of our lives we bring to our chosen field or choices we make in life and our society.
Experiences are designed to give us an understanding of the different systems within a process. However, we must contribute our own unique qualities to define the value of that understanding, using it to fulfill the greatest aspect of life.
However, whatever point of our lives our experience is again from whether through education or an event in our lives, it is the belief we set our lives to become. The purpose of education or learning is to make us functional members of society with the ability to comprehend, not to define success for us.
It is our sense of responsibility that dictates how we define ourselves and the world we stand to change or live with in designing our own path and collaborate with them. However, functionality is not the same as success. While society defines our “function,” only we can define our success.
Experience is designed to give us an understanding of the various systems within a process. But understanding a system is only the baseline. To define the future, we must bring a unique part of ourselves to those systems. We must find the connection between how the world works and who we are. It is our ability to use our true strengths during these periods of “delay” while we are observing and learning that gives us leverage in the end.
When we finally set out to fulfill the greatest aspects of our lives, we must make known what we intend to achieve, but never how we intend to achieve it.
There is power in being unpredictable. By keeping our methods private, we protect the integrity of our steps and the sanctity of our strategy. When we reveal the “how,” we invite interference, doubt, and competition. When we only reveal the “what,” we command respect while keeping the method of our success safely under our own control.
To stand out, we must first understand the process and then we must protect our unique way of mastering it.
Delaying the realization of our purpose is not about falling behind the progress of others; it is about preparing to stand out in everything we do. We are taught to view any deviation from the standard timeline as a failure, but true delay is not a refusal to follow the process, it is a refusal to be ordinary.
On this journey, if we find ourselves held back from something we desperately want to achieve, it may be life redirecting us toward our true strengths. Sometimes we are forced into our rightful place through difficult circumstances whether it is divorce, injury, or an unexpected event. It is often only through being held back that we finally realize our true purpose and the meaning of life.
To truly shine or stand out in everything we do, we must resist the urge to rush toward decisions based on our surrounding pressure and instead accept the path that reveals who we are meant to be.
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