Fulbright Commission Level 1

Andreina Japn Ortega

Topic: Life's purpose
Controlling Idea: thoughts
A. Childhood ideas
1. Childhood wishes/ Dream about a profession
B. Values
2. Good values=Good Life/Lost values=make mistakes
C. Self-esteem
3. To know oneself/ Relationship with God
Conclusion: Summary/Solution

What is the life purpose?

In one word the lifes purpose for me is the happiness, to get this thought I had to

remember my childhood's ideas, know my values and my self-esteem. Since we were children

all adult people asked us: What will you want to be when you grow up? The answer was: I

want to be a teacher, a doctor, a policeman, and all kinds of professions, but now that I grew

up I can understand that I only want to be happy, and currently I am very happy. The way to

happiness implicates, to be honest, to be sincere, to be friendly, to be helpful, to be

responsible, to be humble and a simple person. All of these values are essentials to have a

good life in which you can be quiet with yourself. Although the society sometimes changes

our values and our good performance, and we make a lot of mistakes. With each mistake, we

forget about us, and we can lose our self-esteem and with this loss, we could lose our values. I

think that each person in the world is unique and each one has a different history, and a

different way to see the life; in my case I lost my self-esteem by different situations, but

currently I know the beautiful person that I am. To discovered the wonderful things in myself,

I had to get closer to God because I had distanced myself from him. When I got closer to God

I understood that the real happiness was inside of me, my happiness was in all of my values

and in the personality that my parents educated throughout my life. In conclusion, there are

two things really important in the life, the first is the family and the second is can to do the

things that we love. If we have these two things in our life, we can to be happy. Some people

maybe think different, but it is ok because each one has a way to see the lifes purpose.