Have you tried to ask yourself, why is this happening to me? Why me?. All of us have experienced or will experience to ask themselves what is the purpose of everything? Things are created, people are created meaning everything are created because all things that are created are created with the purpose, but what is the purpose of everything?
This is my question to myself as I tried to find the meaning of life and the purpose of my life. How my past experiences connected to my present and how it will affect my future.
I am Joey Sison, 28 years old this coming April 11. Raised up by my mother and father through the hardship of life. I want to give credits to my parents for all the achievements that I have now, they are my wings. I am also married to my lovely and ever patient wife @lalasison for 5 years.
I grew in a place where criminals are every where, place full of poverty, place where you need to fight for every battle of life just to live and win your life. I started selling something just to finance my study, and because of difficulty my father need to go abroad to support our studies. I asked myself during those times that why you need to leave your family and live alone, isn't the purpose of life is to live WITH your love ones and enjoy the life with them? But life is very uncontrollable, destiny are so challenging. The presence of my father is more than anything.
I pursue to finish my study with the help of my family and the people around me. I was built by the combination of surroundings and experiences in life. I try to collaborate with new friends to learn new things. I understand that I cannot do thing alone, I need other people to compliment my weaknesses. My life is just a piece of chess, I need other pieces to make my life useful and enjoyable.
As I go to my next level (college) I enjoy having new sets of friends, people with different stories, struggles and challenges in life. I have my excuses not go to college but as I looked at other people, their situation is much worst than mine so why stop? Their situations are inspiration to me to keep moving forward. Different story, different roads but fulfilling one purpose in life - to search for the purpose and meaning of life. During my college life, there is space in my heart, I don't know that feeling but it seems that I am seeking something, I am looking for something. I give my best to be a top student and I did it but there is still space, loneliness, emptiness that no one could satisfy.
One day I was invited to attend a bible study, I don't typically attend bible study because for me it's look like a corny stuff. But my friend is so persistent she invited me so I responded. During the bible study I feel that there is joy every time the pastor speak about God. The pastor is so funny and realized that bible is not boring, it is full of life and very timely topics. I decided to accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior during those time. As I walk going back to our house, I realized that the emptiness and loneliness are gone. Life is so simple yet meaningful.
As I grew with the Lord I started to invite people to feel the joy that I felt during bible study. I grew everyday, and started to speak in different places and different groups of people, students, churches, and that is the birth of a dream to become a life coach, a public speaker and motivational speaker. Every time I speak in front of many people and see them being inspired, I feel satisfied. I saw that people are hungry and thirsty for the truth, encouragement and hope. It is more than money, the joy and the peace that money cannot buy are the things that are unseen to the eyes. What seems to be invisible are more important than the visible.
I worked for many companies, thinking where to land a job, I prayed and fast to ask the perfect job for me. Because I know God is all knowing, He knows what company is looking for an applicant so I consulted Him. To my amazement, God sent me to the best work (so far). I became a reports analyst in our company and happy doing some analytic stuff. But as time goes by my life become a routine thing, a rat race!. I found myself stagnant, there is desire inside of me telling, " I can do more than this". But I am trapped with what I have, I am looking for someone who could help me leave the comfort zone. I tried to search things that could help me learn new things. I know lots of people, different people with correct and wrong motive. I learn from them and those experiences are my footstool to reach my next level.
I tried to observe other people, people that is so good, gifted people but they are trapped to their situation and don't know how they are going to achieve their freedom. Today employment is like a modern slavery. Focusing on the work that gives us means for living and forgetting that we have something inside of us that could give us breakthrough, a chance to fly not to walk, a chance to become an owner of a company not an employee.
I tried to learn and explore new things, though it is hard but I need to persevere for my wife and for my future baby and for the people around me, life is like a survival of the fittest, if you don't fight (work) you'll die. Fighting to live is like preserving your next generation. Life is all about taking care of your next generation. I need to work because I want to preserve my family, my future babies because my children will fight for their generation to preserve themselves.
Sometimes, our battle is not with other people but with ourselves. There was a time that I am so impatient and straight forward until such time people are leaving me. I asked all my friend if I am boastful and they said "YES YOU ARE". That was my broken moment, so I tried to stop for awhile and back off. During those time I remember my father because he always says to me, "always keep your relationship with other people healthy". I failed on this part and with all humility I ask for forgiveness to all my friends and start again. Handling my words with care, treating them like an important thing in my life. I conquered it and continuously conquering it. I want to value them as a precious gem that is very hard to find.
Treating other people around me as gems of stone, as I contemplate there is another thing that I need to cultivate and taking care of, and that is the gift that God has given me. Because this gift is the only thing that I can offer to the world and that is the purpose of my existence. To discover the God given gift, to develop it and distribute or share it to other people. We have something to offer, we just need someone to help us discover it and if all people are already discover their gift I know the world will never be the same again.
Speaking of gift, honestly, I came to a point that I ask God why is it that He still not giving us the baby that we are asking. I prayed, I serve Him and He knows it but why He still not telling us the answer to our why? What is His purpose, but I know all things work together for good to those who love God and to those who are called according to His purpose. Right now I am still on my way asking God the purpose of what happened to me, what is happening to me and what will happen to me. Sometimes I want to quit and stop in everything I am doing and let things happen as it desire. But life is simple I don't want to make it complicated.
I have life outside steemit and life inside of steemit. Steemit really help me to discover and develop my gift. I learn how to write poems, stories, blog post, make some video post and interact with other people with different story in life. Through steemit I tried to touch other people via posting a bible verse, painting and other stuff. This is a wonderful ecosystem. I thank God for using steemit to search my purpose, to know other's purpose. Beyond those post that we can see in steemit I know it represent different lives and challenges. Different reason why people are posting in steemit, but regardless of those purpose and reasons I see that it contributes to the totality of life.
I do understand now that the purpose of everything because of His word.
Romans 8:28 "28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
By the way I want to thank my wife @lalasison because she always encourages me to move forward to persevere and reach my goal for our family. I want to thank also @ankarlie, @maverickinvictus and @jon24jon24 because they are the one God used to bring the best inside of me in steemit. My steemit journey is useless without this mentors as long as @ankarlie, @maverickinvictus, @jon24jon24are still in the steemit I will still do steemit.
Because every time I have my concern or question in steemit they are the available and willing person to teach me. I consider them as my mentor.
If there is another post that I will write about, that is no other than @surpassinggoogle because through his vision people perceived their sight, talking about the unseen things. When I started in steemit, I really don't know what to do, it is so hard to attract readers, you need to give everything and yet you gain nothing. But when I heard about @surpassinggoogle, @steemsecrets and @teardrops there is a new hope as a plankton, because whales tends to forget their origin (small creature) but Terry is different. He tries to bring out the wings of each minnow specially people of Philippines and Nigeria. Sleepless night and restless day are on his shoulder but keep on doing something that could help people to find their purpose in life. He is offering a net not a fish, offering bakeshop not only a bread. It is hard to understand that people who are willing to help are sometimes misinterpreted by other people. He doesn't do things to earn, he do things to give, if his intention is to earn we will not take care of other minnows out there.
Thanks for letting me know the purpose of life inside and outside steemit. You are creating a world believing that everyone has something to offer. Salute for your dedication, I don't know you, you don't know me, we lived in different places with different timezone and yet you take care of me. You are concern about my journey. Thank you Terry Ajayi. You have personal battle yet you chose to fight with us, you want us to see our giftedness even the blessings that we have in the Philippines. Yes, indeed, Philippines is so blessed country, we just need to open our eyes and see the goodness of the Lord in the Land of the PH. Thank you for pushing me to believe to myself and keep on steeming and pursuing my dreams. Even you yourself need an encouragement to your family, you have your own battle in life and you keep being strong for us.
I dedicate this post to you my big bro, thank you for letting me know the purpose of everything. I know there are lots of people out there who could attest my words about you. If there is a chance to gather those people in steemit I know you'll be shocked because there are lots of people coming to say that you inspire them.
Side note: To all readers of this post, if you read this post and you are grateful to the life of Terry Ajayi can you please comment "I got your back Terry Ajayi" (no need to upvote it is not an SBD earning post). Let us just show him our support, let us tell the world that there are people who got his back. Commenting "I got your back Terry Ajayi" is one way to show that we are supporting him to his vision. Please do comment or resteemit so that many people will know that there is a campaign running to let Terry know that people got his back.
Terry, this is for you!
Feel free to vote "steemgigs" as witness, it won't affect your life but it will give a tremendous impact to steemit if you vote for it as witness. The leader behind it is no other than @surpassinggoogle by the name of Terry Ajayi.
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