Thursday, July 3, 2008

What Motivates Us

What makes us do what we do? In a similar vein, what is our purpose in life?

Woah. Heavy, dude. I suppose this is my own exploration into my mind, just delving into my own views and seeing if i can extract anything worthwhile. It is pretty deep, but I think that makes us (humanity, I suppose) shy away from it too often. Though it's a daunting question, if we don't broach the topic, then do we know what we're living for?

I never can decide what I'm living for. At times I feel like I can nail down my textbook, blogged out response. You know, I'm here to glorify God (thanks Children's Catechism) and to impact people positively in this world. Most of the things I do I am trying to have some positive influence on people. In my future career, the way I try my best to consider others...some of those things. I do strive to live that out in my life. However, glorifying God is a nice afterthought in my life. I can use that philosophy to make myself feel warm inside. But, most of the time, I'm not actually doing my best to glorify God at all. I need to reconsider this, do some soul searching. I try to, but it's so hard to break away from this world. I can understand the culture and shun parts of it, but not completely. I really need to work on this, but it's so hard at times. It's so easy for me to say here, but impossibly hard to make an actual change in my life.

I notice that I use lots of passive voice verbs in my blogging.


"I'm just a bastard, but at least I admit it."

-Slipknot

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