I did the 20-minute purpose-finder thing. Actually, it took me a few days. And my answer turned out not very original, though it felt that way for half a second.
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To free as many beings from suffering as I can.
To create as much happiness as possible.
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Well, guess what. I'm Buddhist. Nothing to see here.
Then I recalled something a friend of mine had written:
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Goals
To be a matchstick to candles that sit untouched.
To find and share the beauty of things that is typically seen as otherwise.
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Whoa. Her goals are, respectively, the same as mine. Except she actually came up with those goals entirely on her own... I have always thought she was a natural Buddha. The person who wrote the above is only 18 and knows not a thing about Buddhism. She's Christian.