Dad, What Is the Purpose of Life?

My 17 year old eldest daughter had recently asked me a question. It sounded so simple, so basic. "Dad, what is the purpose of life?". Have ever had that kind of question from your kids? Did you ever asked the same question to your dad, not others? I did, when I was 7. I knew the answer that my dad gave me was very simple. Yet, it brought me to heights that my dad never been too. I am surely glad to have asked that question. To what ever the creature was that tickled it out of me, I want to say thanks. I haven't quite achieve all my dreams, but I am surely heading on.

The answer my dad gave had managed me to break the poverty line....

I gave my kid some answers. I sort of took it from the grounds my dad offered me and expanded per my experience and my readings. I thought the way she looked, she was kind of 'filled' with the answer, satisfied.

Above all, I was thankful for her to have asked the question. It showed that she was in the right direction. She is in the midst of discovering her true self, perhaps at this instant she may have caught a glimpse of her true self. She is not a great 'grade' achiever, due to my negligence, yet she has the right characterisitics to be a survivor like me. She has the right attitudes as far I am concerned. She had never gotten an A in any subject when she was in lower secondary, but with her mom and my attention, she got 8 A's. We just took her on a crash course over 3 months.

I had even tested her, putting her to a job and watched from far to see how she would perform. I even planted an inside person from whom I managed to get feedbacks. She worked for her uncle in a petrol station right after PMR. Well, of course wrong, child labour, but the experience was too good to let go, plus she was equally excited.

Well, have your kids asked you the question yet? If not, all you can do is just wait. If it started from you, it carries very little impact. Yet, it is very good if you can start preparing your answers. I mean we can give an answer as sophicated as we could, but the point is we want ensure the recipient understands it all.