by Annette Bromley

Created on: October 16, 2009   Last Updated: October 18, 2009

How to discover your mission in life

When I was a kid my two favorite past-times were playing school and I always wanted to be the teacher or play Adventurer and the adventurer was always a seeker of great secrets, secrets of the Earth and Sea, learning all the skills and wiles and ways of nature. I sought out the treasures of the earth and the bones of her being and then I wrote it all down, made up tales of my great adventures and I had a very vivid imagination.

I remember as a child saying so many times; When I grow up I'm going to be and that going to be kept changing up until I was about ten or twelve and then suddenly I knew exactly what I was meant to be, my mission in life and I determined someday, someway I would accomplish my dream, my reality. It took me nearly another 50 years to really succeed but I did and I never gave up. The path was not easy but the way was sure. I took a few too many detours, got off on the wrong path but the desire, the hope never left me and it always came back to I want to teach and I want to write. I want to be a writer who also teaches. My mission became my passion. By the time was sixteen I had refined it a little, started to shape the idea of what sort of writer I wanted to be and what interest I had that I wanted to teach.

I think we are all born with an innate desire to be and/or do something special with our lives, that something that is uniquely assigned to our being like a predestined plan, life mapped out and it is up to each of us to chose or not to chose to follow the map. Sometimes life gets in the way. We make decisions that end up taking us down a different path. Our parents, teachers, other family members try to discourage our aspirations and goals and even though deep down we know differently we listen and believe them. It is a foolish notion, just a foolish dream. Forget it. This is what you should do and you listen and you try to follow someone else's dream. You may end up being reasonably content but it is not your dream and your dream keeps coming back and coming back and never really leaves you. It nudges you awake in the middle of the night. It rattles your cage when you are having a lousy day at work and when you are alone and beside yourself you think again about your dream and you know, you know it is the path you must follow for your life to truly have meaning and purpose. That dream is without doubt the mission in life you were born to. Whatever it was that truly captured your hope and desire

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