Hey Guys,
I would like to have your opinion on the matter because I know what my life purpose is, but I find myself procrastinating all the time so it makes me even question myself it really is my life purpose, but it is really what I feel and I would literally die for it, let me explain. Over three years ago, I was vegetarian and a colleague of mine showed me a video of Gary Yourofsky who was talking about veganism. I always thought that it was really extreme even when I was vegetarian. It was the first time that I felt bad for being vegetarian. At first, I resisted his speech a lot but I also felt like there was something there, so I just was watching it in loop again and again. After watching a couple time it just clicked that veganism was the right thing for me so I researched a lot and I went vegan and it is the best decision that I ever made.
From that moment, I knew that my purpose in life was to contribute to this cause, helping helpless animals that have done nothing to deserve it and help educate people, and changing the world little by little. I always feel like I am not doing enough and even though the world might not go vegan or stop killing animals in my lifetime, I feel like I can contribute a lot. I've contacted a lot of Presidents of awesome nonprofits organizations to ask them what they thought was the best way to contribute and to help animals stop being killed as fast as possible. They all came up with different answers, but a lot of them were the same which was donating money to existing charities that you believe in. That's how I felt as well that it could be really useful after reading a book on the subject called "How to be great at doing good?" Last year, I volunteered in California for three months in a Farm Sanctuary and I totally loved it, it was one of the greatest experience of my life. People that worked there were totally passionate about animals and dedicated. They worked for really low salary as well so it made me consider that I could bring more value if I can start a successful business and give money to those charities instead of working there myself.
I thought, what if I go the speaker way, could it be more useful? It is the route that is the closest to my heart because I like public speaking, I've done some talks on veganism in colleges and these are the moments where I felt the most fulfilled ever. The thing though, is that what I feel, and the contribution I bring for animals is different. Ultimately, I feel like it is less efficient to go for a speaking perspective because you can only influence so many people at a time, while you could make videos on youtube and bring more people to see them and maybe influence more people.
So what came to mind was still, what if I start a software company and while serving tons of people, I would use this money to give to animal charities that do awesome work already for the cause that I support, it might actually be the best way to help animals even though I like it, but software development is not a big passion for me or I could even invest in lab meat so we figure a way to stop killing animals. So now, I catch myself procrastinating a lot and not putting in the work that I should be doing because it seems like it is so disconnected.
The same goes for my job, as I am trying to build my business on the side, I work full time at a job that I honestly don't like that much and always thought, that I could go do software development for Mercy For Animals, an organization that I like, but the pay is less, so technically it feels like I could not invest as much money in my business and it would prevent it from growing as fast as it could and over time reduce the contribution that I could actually put for animals.
I know that deep down my life purpose is to contribute to this cause that is so dear to my heart, I would die for the world to be vegan, but the thing is that I find myself pondering what is the best way to contribute and then it leads to procrastination that ultimately doesn't help animals at all. I know that I am 100% responsible for my thoughts and beliefs and I feel that I might have limiting beliefs in what I've just written, but it's how I've thought about it for a while so it's always on my mind, do I sacrifice ultimately fun for the sake of the cause the I love the most.
Let me know if you guys have any opinions, tips, insights to share on this issue.
Have an amazing day,
Claude
