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My Aim In Life
A couple years ago I was severely depressed.
My life seemed to have had no purpose up until that point and I had no one there to share my feelings with.
For a week I walked outside, looking at people and seeing frowns and stress plastered on their faces. I looked at my friends and family and saw them doing what they should rather than what they want.
I saw people that weren’t happy with their lives but were too comfortable to make a change. I saw a world where everyone was getting by but no one was living.
And neither was I.
I had been searching for meaning, value and my passion for years, never seeming to find it. And, in the end, I felt all alone in a world I didn’t feel I belonged.
Actually… it was worse than that… I felt as though I was there but no one could see me. Out of 7 billion people not one would miss me. Not one would remember me.
It was that moment in my life where I really asked myself what would make my life worth living. What could I do that would make me feel like I mattered?
The only thing I wanted in that moment was to make sure that no one would ever have to feel as alone and powerless as I did back then.
I wanted to show people that there is a better way. I wanted to show them that they…
