Topic: Your purpose in life. (Read 750 times)

Sometimes career we wish for ourselves May not come through the way we imagine. The most important thing is that whatever we found ourselves doing in life as a career we should find happiness in it and know that is one of the purpose life has for us.

If we continue to they predict the purpose of life, it will sounds anyhow because the purpose of life will be known to anyone who is alive and i believe that everybody is good to leave a better live but people who is leaving a good or bad live will give account of their lives and also gives you another definition of purpose of live

Everyone must have a purpose in life, and of course it is different for each person. some want to be doctors, some want to be police officers, some want to be teachers and so on. but in the future some are achieved and some are not.however the purpose of my life for the future is simple? The important thing is that my life is full of happiness in the future. whatever my profession.

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My purpose in life is to learn as many languages as i can, meet a lot of cultures, people and at the end of the day have a lot of funny stories

A purpose is maybe not the best way to define an inclination towards something. A purpose signifies something that you were born to do, would be the happiest, and is something perfectly suited for you. And that just doesn't exist as life itself is much more complex than just one view or just one path. Goals and aspirations change throughout a person's life as we grow as people, take on new experiences, and new horizons open, so having one goal or one purpose usually differs from their childhood inclinations. So switching a person's liking and ''purpose'' is a normal and common part of life.

As for a career, that's a capitalist construct that really doesn't need to be connected to a person's needs, wants and personal goals, and that doesn't mean a person has to choose one or the other, So no, steering a child's life to a career path makes 0 sense as it's interests shift and so doest the economic and career landscape.

Someone who is poor and he thinks because being poor he doesn't have any purpose in life, that is not true.  In life be it poor or rich everyone has a purpose in life, someone who is born poor should know the purpose of existence of life is not to remain poor in life. If I am born into a poor family my purpose of life is to break the chain of poverty and not to remain poor.

you can know your purpose of your life when you are rich, the image of someone who is poor doesn't come out to the society until the person have happened to be rich. A poor person may have budget and plans to do good but the level of poverty in person will not allow it to know he is. So the person that can attest to know who he is whom that feed well and it's a person who can take care of person. People has money and not everybody have Godly mind of help to people who is suffering and it's the reason.

The purpose of my life is just to be able to do something better for the world, especially for the environment. I become sad when news comes that animal hunting, deforestation, global warming, or terrorism I just want to put an end to all these things so that there can be a peaceful environment.

The purpose of life is not just to get married , give birth to kids, build houses , the main purpose of life is to have impact to other people's life , make people to remember you for your good deeds so that after leaving this life I can be remembered for the great things I did in the life of people while I was alive on earth.

Life itself is a purpose. From my perspective, I think it's really hard to discover own's purpose in life. To some people their purpose is to be self-fulfilled, which might be having a family, a well-paying job, kids, money e.t.c  My purpose in life is to b happy,  I choose happiness no matter the situation I am in, also to put a smile to people face.
 I won't dispute the fact that all have listed above too can bring happiness but sometimes it doesn't.

everybody have a live it life that will sustain and what bothered the person much, because i noticed that Bitcoin is something that i know that people looks for white-collar job is sustaining with. The purpose we are been created is the major point. And its known that we don't know our dear assignment on earth but during the time of development in growth our sprime God will start reviewing why we are be created. Some people don't know the purpose why they being created.

Life is the best gift that one can ever have,every one has their purpose on earth,but I know the environment where one comes from has a great influence on the choice people make in life too.People changes their purpose with time,that is to say as the day goes by,people mentality change about the purpose they previously had.

But my purpose in life is to be the bread winner of my family,to be well recognised and to set pace for others to follow in the society.To be wealthy and rich and also very famous.

My purpose in life will be to see my self happy, living a good life and seeing my kids play around my abode, seeing everyone around me comfortable and people of the world get to stop fighting each other and embrace peace. I really wanna see the plans I had when I was growing up come to pass  I think that will be one purpose that I never wanna see fail.

To Love my wife to the fullest and her happy. To earn enough to fulfill needs and desires of my children. To keep parents healthy and safe. To learn the best of the world, be it studies, music or literature, to travel around the globe. To serve needy and poor. To make friends who will love me and cry on my death.

Life is a gift that is so precious,  my purpose is to live this life as a gift to the fulness,  living in the right way that won't be of wastefulness of life. The purpose of life is to make this world a better place by showing love to one another,  help the needy, support people in any way.

Many things comes to one's mind when topics like this pop up,because most people in life do no really know their purpose in life.They came to the life to accompany other person's,but the worst thing that will ever happen to a man is not to know his purpose in life,or live a life that is ambition less, aimless,unfruitful and unyielding.
Life is suppose to be lived in a way that legacy will be created for our offsprings to come.

 My purpose in life is to be good to myself and other people in the world. Anywhere I go to i always be a good man to  people who are in needs at the moment and also create what will eliminate poverty from their life and family. I believe, if i become a president in my country, I will do everything possible within my power to make everybody equal in the country nothing like poor people, everybody will be rich through the industries I will create for the different community. I will also make decentralized currency Lega in the country so that everybody will be doing well and also make the country among the best countries in the whole world.

  Some people who graduated and get their course are had no work and can't find their self on that place. But those people in a moderate status they are some of the  consistent people who had a dignity of their life.

Everybody that is born into this world is supposed to have their purpose of being into the world,the things they wish to achieve,a set goal that will motivate them to work harder,but it is quite unfortunate that some person's do not know what they came into the world for,they are the causes of the problems that are in the world today,because all they constitute is nuisance to the society.When you have nothing doing,what comes into your mind then is evil,crime,wicked act and as such have made the society at large unsafe for humans.

Coming from a family who experiences financial hardship ,life already has an edge over you,you grow up to struggle for daily bread and faced with alot of challenges ,life already teaches you how to survive and be an hustler hoping for the best ,It is left to you to change the story ,only you can re-write your story ,life comes with alot of hardship,challenges thrown at you ,do not be discouraged, be positive and hope for the best,think big ,work hard ,if you believe the story will change with you then hard and work towards it ,life is cruel, live it as it comes and put in your best, never give up .you might feel depressed,tired ,like giving up ,ending it ,think positive ,change is constant, change the situation around you ,it not easy doing tho but keep putting in your best,one day the effort will pay.

It is not bad for parents to try and guide their children to the right path in life, but parents should not be the one to chose what their children should do and become in life.

I have seen someone after graduation gave the certificate to her mum, he said I have done what u asked me, and went back to study what he wanted to, he followed his passion and was successful in life. Know what you are passionate about and it will make you successful one way or another.

To define one's purpose of existence these days is quite difficult. It means one has to come to terms with a particular interests and try to make it work, but where this doesn't happen for either reasons of mounting bills, fear of unknown, other popular opinion and the likes of excuses I failed to include, what then is the option for survival? Hence, why so many  having seen the work involved in making whatever interests become an income stream simply just push it aside and opt to settle for whatever pays the bill, not minding the emotional debacle that comes with it. It's never easy to just ignore that silent voice telling one to go at an idea, but at some point, with factors like age, being a parent, taking care of old parents or younger ones who look up to one, I do understand why so many choose not give a heed to follow after the purpose of interest.
I often ask myself questions so as to be able to keep that silent voice active and under control, all because of economic hardship, a pandemic break, age factor. It's never late however, to live a purposeful life starting now if the fear factor can be ignored like a bad habit.

True that. Most individuals deviate from their passions and dreams/ purpose not deliberately but because there is no financial encouragement. Most people just need a sponsor who can invest in their dreams and help them harness their purpose in life.

My purpose in life is to ensure that everyone that comes in contact with me would be positively impacted. And this purpose is the totality or the summary of my daily actions and inaction. Daily, I want to treat and love people they way I treat myself. I want to ensure daily that however I want to be treated let me treat others the same way. I don't want to be selfish or proud but my purpose daily is to ensure that I am selfless and meek. I don't want to be rich stealing from others and I don't want to live a life of luxury when my neighbors are living in misery. My gifts and talents are not for sale but for the benefit of mankind. My purpose generally is to die empty.   

The creator of universe created everything and give it the way and method of surviving. Hard work doesn't pay to a certain point. But their is a time a hard work is required to defeat a circumstances. From kids aspect of scenario. I'm fully want you to understand that you can't choose a choice to your kids but you can look from the focus of your child and know exactly what it can possesse for the life not to persuade you child for your own interests. Some children has being diverted from the specifications of parents to their heart desires plans of what to be in life

As our faces differ so also does our purpose differ. What interests you may be different from mine. But most times the things we had passion for during childhood are not always accomplished because of some external factors that we don't have control over. However, it's best we engage in things that we have passion for even if we are not earning as much as expected, we get fulfilled and I believe that no matter how successful one is, its important we help others ascend the ladder of progress.

Let's all try to put in our best to win, but if after doing all we can and we couldn't win, lets make sure we help someone to win. Be a part of people's success story.

Makes sense with all of that, you can see for yourself that there will be a basic capital to move all this. but once it happens it can convince people to keep investing in goodness to get rewarded later. Very nice way for everyone and help the underprivileged people with all this stuff.

Creating means of NGO that will support people and most important helpless people is good but the question is that were are you getting your funds to start with? Because creating NGO you most have capital

Society is constantly evolving.

There are so many unknowns to man: You plan for the next day or year yet you cannot for a certainty know where life will swing.


The best proactive parent is one who watches the trends. However, there are basic constants in human living. You must eat. You must be educated. You must work. You must also not neglect worship. All of these will shape the direction of the career options you will place on the face of your children.

You have a very noble dream to be able to make your parents happy, that's something to be proud of but you should have a business or a picture of life ahead by having some good business to do. I hope that I can make my parents happy and make big changes from the fate of my parents for the better for the next 7 generations.

That is true that we have to leave a remarkable things on earth, the thread gave us insight to look at the future because of the way we make plans and also look for the new out come and development of everything we are looking at, you gave nice example Elon musk antagonist for Bitcoin have made him come open for world to know and Satoshi the same thing

My purpose in live is to help the helpless cause of the background I came from, during my childhood I went through a lot so I know how it feels to be helpless, that is why I made up my mind to organize an NGO organization to help the less privilege expecially the orphans that have no body to assist them in life.

Simple,my purpose in life,is living  a simple life.Study,work and share to people ,what you have blessings comes.Fight for your rights,keep yourself busy.Don' t allow people to manipulate yourlode as long you can do it,in your own self.Help peoplw who suffering in poverty and teach them how to live ,to earned money,so can survive everyday there life.

We're currently going through a world that is rapidly changing and advancing, what we think is profitable now, might not be profitable in 5-10-20 years. From my point of view, it's best to follow your passion, if you're good at something, chances are that you might as well end up turning it into a living. There's no way to predict the future, thus, we might as well follow what we like.

One of the greatest things that could happened to man in life is the privilege of birth into this world first, our parents have acted their own part right from childhood to a youthful stage of an adult, it os expected of individual to begin to find means to surviving the life, let's take a look at or lower creatures, once their parent gave birth to them they begin to live independency with time.

This is when the law of growth is required, you were once given a milk as food but now you need to eat meat and source it out all by yourself, our dear parents were once a child and when time comes they yielded to the call of growth and change and they move on with live, it is expected of us to adapt to changes in live as we grow, while you decided on what to become in live all by yourself else they can only advice you, direct and assist you toward fulfilling purpose, but one will totally be held responsible for his if miserable or a purposeful living.

No parents would allow his/her child to embrace to a career that will not be profitable.  I understand we growing up their is this passion we do have for a particular life style but I feel if this life style which the child is mimicking is not a good one ,it is best for the parents to change the child's way from it so that the child won't grow up with it. But if it is a good one that will have impact in the child's life when the child grows up it will be better for the parents to encourage that child to grow up with it.

There are so many things a man really needs in life,and those are his purposes. Some might be to change the condition of their family,while some might be to be  great in life.
But my purpose has always been to have a positive impact on my society and influence the people around me towards living a better life that is free of crime.

Making your family better and look good is from the achievement you Merit so far, i want you to know that money is the highest thing that will make family to recognize you and also be happy, no family that will be proud of the members when their is no money to face the challenges of others, we need to have multiple purpose of being alive but I don't know for you

You define "purpose" only by any self interest that someone might have and it brings into question the "nature v. nurture" argument. If it's someone's dream to be an engineer in life, but they are limited by their IQ (or their physical circumstances), their purpose is limited by factors out of their control. And children aren't meant to think of these limiting factors, they're children. No matter how hard they might try, no matter how hard their parents might set him/her up for success, it will end up in failure.

So the answer is, nothing. Sometimes accepting things are out of your control is the only option, as pessimistic as it may sound.

I quite believe the opposite, don't get me wrong, I do support what you're mentioning, but not exactly. Our presence is quite meaningless, we're nothing but a microscopical dot on a huge map, while our existence's time is severely limited. From my point of view, we should make those years count, try as many things as possible and not live a repressed life. Our dreams and ambitions, for the most of us, may never be accomplished, however, we should at least attempt to make a difference in the world.

I believe everyone that has come to this life has a purpose in life.They have an ambition or a dream of where they want to be,or the level they want to attain in the nearest future.
A man without a dream is a man that won't amount to anything in life. The dream I have can be different to another mans'.
My main purpose in life is to influence people around me positively and help people that I can help.

I don't have any specific purpose in life.

I enjoy helping people around me.  I enjoy learning new things.

I seek things that make me feel good and avoid things that do not.

I enjoy being alive.  No purpose, I just am.

This question is too broad to be answered in a simple way. I learned the lesson from my parents’ mistakes not to force my children to choose the things that I want, but to leave the choice to them to choose the things that they want. It is very important for the children to choose the things that they like and that fit with their nature. If children are forced to choose things they do not like to be their way of life in the future, they will certainly fail, you have to leave them the choice according to their preferences because every child has different tendencies and you as a father have to guide the children correctly, sometimes children choose wrong things due to their lack of experience In life and you know that this will affect their future greatly, so in this case you have to find a suitable way to make the children give up these wrong choices and choose other right things that suit them and give them a good future.

You know, I kind of think differently about the topic of this thread. I feel someone's purpose in life doesn't have to revolve around one's career choices alone. It goes beyond that for me.

Back in my locality, I see some people living in some of fhe best houses while those around them don't have some means to some good livelihood. Infact, there houses is inaccessible due to bad road network. How does that works so well for such person?
I'm quite sure you can't help everyone in life but one can always try, always try to ensure you do the best you can not just for yourself but for your neighbours.

It's very easy for a candle to shine and displace the shadows in a room to some extent, but having more candles lit in a room and there might be no chance for darkness to strive. I have a zeal to see what good I can do in others and I do my best to give that helping hand when I can.

It must not always be finance but some insight that could uplift someone could do the whole trick. Let someone be enlightened because of you and you might be much happier in life aside from archiving your career objectives. In the end, it all comes to nothing after archiving all the wealth in the world. Little wonder why some of the wealthiest persons run has and run a charity organisations. Let's align our purpose with creating happiness for not just ourselves but our neighbours or humanity.

When parents try to choose a career for their kids it really affects them, what the parents maybe introducing to them may look strange to them and they will find it so hard to align with. When kids are allow to go with their dreams they better in the real life because they enjoy what they are doing.

My purpose in life has been since my youth to live on my own terms.

I know now, late in life, that I will never achieve my purpose.

You know, the biggest question we've heard since childhood is
What is the purpose of your life?
What do you want to be when you grow up?

We would answer the question of whether we understood the meaning or not. We want to be a doctor, we want to be an engineer bla ba bla...

But slowly as age begins to increase This question makes us think when it comes to maturity
What do I want to be in life?
What is the purpose of my life?

As I said in my childhood, I will be a doctor and an engineer
Do you really want that to happen?

Is earning money the only purpose of life?
No, it's not The purpose of our life should be what makes our life imaginative Which gives us peace of mind through good deeds.

Chasing what you have a natural flare for, passion help shapes the future of an individual.
Focus is another, challenges and tough times will come, dream killers, one who successfully succeeds over this stage tend to be the best at what they do.
God's plan for us are of good, this goes to the sinner's also, but then if you don't sit down, take good plans, make moves and take actions, you'll end up giving advice to the younger ones without them asking from you.

My purpose in life is to make it to heaven. Human being and jinn  are created to this world to worship God. And we are taught that our purpose in this world is an examination from God.

As Franky said, at least for me too, the most vital of all, is to find what truly fulfills you, otherwise, you're likely to live a regretful life, no matter how much money you might earn. Studies have also shown, that from a certain amount of money and upwards, it doesn't affect your happiness. On the other hand, I don't truly believe that there's such a thing as "finding purpose". Our purpose should focus towards finding what truly interests us, something which not all of us have gone through yet (I haven't), if that's about being an entrepreneur, an investor or a first responder, it doesn't matter, as long as it's fulfilling for us.

My purpose in life is to be a pace setters,
A change agent.
A problem solver.
A leader.
There are several things that we can do to prove to the society that we are really change agents.I am a problem solver,some one has to make sure that there is changes in the society he or she lives.

For me personally my purpose in life is to guide and encourage people that are beside me and that i love to enjoy their lives because life is a dream from which we wake up only ONCE . MAke no mistakes and live your life as you planned it but do no harm to others!

My purpose in life is to force government to prove EVERYTHING that they order average people to do.

My goal is to have a lot of knowledge, have a passion in life, have a high-income job, have many good friends, be able to help my family and others in society.
Before I can do any of the above, I have to take care of myself before I can do anything useful for my family and society.

I am very fortunate to have parents who support my choice...

no matter how smart and genius a child is, the role of parents is very important for their future. but the fact is in my country there are still many parents who don't care about the feelings of their children, this is the reason why many young people in my country experience stress and depression.

My life goal is space exploration. I have always been interested in this topic. Guys, if you're interested, advise you to read the latest space news. Believe that each of us should leave a mark on the earth. And I also admire the work of Elon Musk. He's really cool.

My life has been good,i have a job and family

Self discovery is one thing people try so hard to maintain. Most people loose their true identify because of societal influence. Financial benefits has made people deviate from their passions thereby going for what the feel is more lucrative and most time this ends up making loose their drive for what gives them true excitement.

I believe if there could be a means whereby peoples dreams are been sponsored from scratch their energy and time also channeled to there passion the will make tremendous success. Encouragements through help build confidence in people.

Helping others grow too plays a role in this as well.

I would advise my daughter which I think is good for her but I can't stop her from pursuing other things that she might want in the future. Whichever is in the best interest of her, I'll show full support for her as long as I can see that she's on the right path.

I won't stop her from doing things that she loved as a parent, I'll teach her that she should be happy in her chosen field or job.

I think that if we have no destination in this universe then we also have no destination as an active part of this universe that is very insignificant and integral to nature. We are nothing different rather it is just a very temporary special situation in the ongoing events here. The human heart is the main tool to find the purpose and goal of life. The purpose of life must be honest we have to think positively about the desires of our minds no matter what we do To be fixed. Careers are not the right solution for everything.

Sometimes i think that we do not think beyond our career, our business and the most important thing money. The purpose of our life revolves around money. We spend our whole life to become wealthy and fulfil our needs. That's perfectly fine but there are few who think beyond this. There are very few whom purpose of life is to make the mankind happy, to help the mankind , to help those who are ill, who are in hospitals , who need money to survive.
Its easy to think about ourselves but those who think about others are the ones who will be remembered always.

In the purpose of life, of course you want your own pleasure and satisfaction, therefore you don't want to worry when night falls as well as in life, we all want the same thing, but still in life there are definitely difficulties in family problems, friends in finances too.
I just want to be fulfilled needs and my family is quite at ease in many problems but I still work hard to achieve my life goals for the better by knowing crypto I am sure it will change my economy financially

And I want that sense of peace to remain and not be lost in the night.

Later in our lives, we truly aspire for peace and contentment in life. To get rich is not our mission anymore. We prefer to have a simple living, maybe tending your own garden, be self-sufficient and not relying with somebody. And if possible on my part, help my family and relatives to ease their burden even getting their own food for the table and education of their kids. Education for me is the key to achieve their dreams and realize what's most important in life.

My purpose in life is to live peacefully with satisfaction and security in a place where I don't have any enemy. I just wanted to sleep peacefully without worrying who's gonna knock on my door the next morning. I mean, to live a worry-free life is amazing and it will be most people wanted because no one wants to have a problem. Unfortunately, we cannot have all of that without going through the hard times and create our own rainbow after the storms.

There's an inevitable discrepancy between the stuff that people enjoy doing, and the stuff that needs doing. This is why it is difficult for many people to find jobs that match their perfect desires. Fortunately a career is not the only source of meaning in life, and for many people is not even the major source of meaning. We are defined through our actions, and our interactions with others... this is not limited to work.

Ultimately from a genetic perspective the purpose of life is the continuation of life... which suggests another source of purpose: family and children.

The latter part of what you said, that's right. If someone is to find his/her purpose or success in life, he/she must find it or make it himself/herself and not to be made by his parents or other people around him/her. And purpose in life doesn't necessarily mean career. It could also be passion. And what's more fortunate is that if your passion is your career. But whatever it is, what's important is that you're happy doing it. Not just because somebody told you to do so.

^^^ That's easy. Join ISIS.     

It's a very tricky question really, as others have said - your life will consist of many phases. Your purpose might be apparent when you are very young and manage to fall into the right path. I'd like to buy a large plot of land and maintain it as a forest for future generations, however it will cost quite a bit of money to be able to afford that sort of project. In the meantime you have to live, survive and even spend money on the occasional luxury to get through life. Who knows what will happen in the future, so you have to be quite flexible with the possibilities out there and be sure to grab every opportunity that goes past.

The real purpose of life i feel is to make a way of survival in life making life meaningful rewarding why even have been established as a soul during this world within the universe the aim of life is to enjoy enjoy and waste life there's no real purpose to life. You and that were born not by our will not by the selection of our parents but by the laws of random nature so you i don't plow ahead with any mission or purpose in life feel trying to seek out the important purpose are often how to make a purpose rather than being useless.

Maybe the mistake we make is trying to find purpose where there is none.
Whenever I think about the future or have a goal or purpose and devise plans to attain these things I feel less happy.

Planning long term and putting pressure on yourself is a big mistake.
Also I find when I'm not trying to attain something vigorously then it seems to happen a lot easier.


Base pleasures like girls and food and even drugs are great in moderation. I like scotch.

Maybe the only purpose is to enjoy ourselves whilst not harming or taking directly from others and helping as far as we reasonably can.
Let's not over estimate our importance or the impact we can have on the flow of things.

Some super intelligent and super gifted people are outside of this but that is the 0.0001% so since I'm not included in that perhaps and I don't have to worry about purpose.

It's like writing a book. I write books for fun and my best exciting and fun stories are the ones that just happen , I make them up as I go along. They don't start with a purpose or framework or goal or even genre. I just enjoy them as I go along and things just happen. bit like real life.

Agent Smith was wrong.

I do think one should have certain responsibilities like helping those that have helped you or those you think deserve help that you can give. If you lay on your death bed having satisfied only those that's cool.

I like to believe this is a simulation because perhaps if their is a path or purpose then you get it more on the later levels
Maybe we are part of some experiment. I cant even consider purpose until I know what this is all about. I mean how can I have some purpose if I don't even know what this is all part of. Putting all that effort and then it was counter productive to the larger goal or direction we're all meant to be headed.

Then again tomorrow I could have an amazing idea and have a micro purpose that I will pursue for a while but it would never be classed by me as my purpose in life. Just some long term goal by my standards.

Keep in mind I post from my phone from wherever I am and it is Friday early evening:)

I think if I were to have kids in later life it would be understandable to adopt a view similar to the prior post.
I've heard kids can really alter your perspective and you are not worried as much about trying to maintain a view of a larger picture and are drawn to focus more on your smaller world. This is probably hardwired in.

For the sake of being happy perhaps zooming in is better than trying to zoom out. Maybe being happy and content is the purpose.

It is us who defines what is success in life really talks about. It can vary from career, love, relation to different persons, and such. So if I would be a parent, in the future, redefining these things for them to know what success really is, is what I envision my purpose for them. Leading them to a track where they and only they can define what really matters to them. Financial assistance will be satisfied by mine, as I can give them all my treasure, and prosperity from my entire journey in this what we called life. Giving life lessons and such, to provide wisdom, and guide them as they follow what they want.

So as a parent, I would love to see them satisfied, and success at the same time. I want them to fulfill their own journey, struggle from the path they chose, and earn the benefits of having risk, gives and takes, and failure. As this happening is part of being successful in my definition.

Finding one's purpose is a phase in life and almost everybody experienced it in their life. Actually, I'm currently in that phase but I'm just lucky to have my purpose and career path already. It maybe easy for others to know what they want in life but some of them can't follow it because they are not in the position to do so, maybe they need to be financially stable, or maybe their parents wanted to carve a path for them. So when I become a parent, I want my kids to follow their own path, I would not create it for them, but I would help them evaluate what do they wanted to do. I would not dictate  and will just be supportive on what do they really want in life.

  No one can succeed in life, without finding his or her career or passion, no matter how hard working the individual is. That's why all parents should assist there kids in making the right choice, not making it for them. To ensure a happy future.

a successful and happy life is about finding the career that meets your interest. where your interest has evolved from childhood. this helps you to want to be more involved. to actually grow within that career and expand the business and make the business a better success aswell as bring more success to you.

the problem is not everyone gets the oppertunity to live their inspirations. many towns are limited to certain industries so those town colleges lean towards those industries so a empassioned singer with very few oppertunities to sing, end up going to college to learn engineering or business and spend most of their working life in engineering/business.. where singing is just a hobby/weekend thing

yep its true. toilet cleaners in mcdonalds dont dream of having that job when they are kids

the % of people that actually get to live their inspirations and interest is not even 20%

however with he internet. certain things can turn their weekend hobby into a income stream that can allow them to spend more time in their interest and less time in the 'norm'

artists can use things like 'fiver' to sell their art or get commissions for $20-$1000.
singers can use youtube to promote their voice. more artists these days just need to spam links to their videos which is more easy than trying to audition the old way.

but even with fiver/youtube being around for over a decade now. the amount of people where their day job is their interest/inspiration is still not above 20%

Careful analysis of the transitional stages in the life a human (i.e Childhood, Adolescence, Early Adulthood & Adulthood), One would come to see that at the primal stages of life, Our individual purpose was very clear to us and we were drawn each to it in the form of activities each distinct to every child. For example, a child choosing to play with color pencils (paint) because of the excitement that it gives to him/her when other children his age are doing the norm or  the example of a child that always sings and mimic the music stars he or she has seen on television e.t.c But as we transited from one stage in life to another and became more conscious and aware of life’s realities, this clarity becomes dampened from Societal happenings, pressure from peers and parents on what is proper and glaringly lucrative & our educational system. As a result of this many distractions and influence, many are pushed into careers that they have little or no interest for and this leads to massive failure in such career options because of the lack of love, commitment & dedication to it. At late adolescence & early Adulthood (ages 17- 25) One is usually thrown into constant depression and confusion on ones Purpose in life. How does one get back in touch with those childhood inclinations? As a prospective parent or a parent, will you guide your children to a career option best suited to the inclinations they exhibit at a primal stage even though the inclination seems unprofitable??