The battle for your purpose: Breaking free from family, society, and religion

Discovering your purpose often invites conflict. You will face three circles of influence: Family, Society, and Organized Religion. To walk your own path, you must often fight against these three walls.

Why Discovering Your Purpose Comes with Conflict

Men like Malcolm X faced immense external pressure. He lived in a society of white supremacists, and later joined the Nation of Islam. He faced hostility from both society and his religious group, eventually leading to his assassination at age 39.

He was shot 21 times while preparing to speak at the Audubon Ballroom.

However, his purpose, his message of black liberty, lived on long after his death. You can kill a man, but you cannot kill his sense of purpose.

The Price of Walking Your Own Path in Life

Walking the path of purpose is not for cowards. You may be ostracized, or ridiculed. If you are offended by opposition, or people discussing your issues, your journey has not yet begun.

Some people assume that value is a function of age, which is why you see young Africans not being valued.

They have no problem with a young fetish priest, but they question a young doctor, or teacher.

Who made it a universal law that you should study 4 years to be an accountant, yet hairdressing can be learned in one year?

Nature has no law saying wisdom comes only at a certain age.

In some parts of the world, a woman's views are not accepted unless she is married, you see the game?

Why Most People Never Find Their Purpose

You live each passing day as a dead man.

But modern men love themselves, they cannot think of dying without experiencing sex. They say, "I cannot die without meeting my future wife."

Their minds are limited, they cannot reason beyond the scope of sexual desire.