I’ve always been grateful for the fact that I’ve always known what I wanted to do with my life. Choosing my path was never a struggle.
For as long as I can remember I’ve been creating. Every one has, I’m sure of it. But I’ve been creating creating. Lol.
My Plug Book was amazing, my German Lese Buch was an interesting read with the most creative layout. I sketched and painted, I created content for my siblings and I when we were bored and had nothing to do or play with. I’d show you but I threw away almost everything when we sold our childhood home.
High school came and I hated every part of it because we didn’t have crafts anymore. I hated both the commerce and the science field, but decided to deal with science field rather.
During that time my friends and I created fake TV Shows, magazines, blogs just for fun. The last two years of high school, I was exposed to the internet, I discovered careers in the arts, I watched “Generations” (when Generations was still Generations) and fell in love with the Advertising world. I knew right then that I wanted to get into that industry.
At the end of my school year I knew I wanted to be a graphic designer. I enrolled at UNAM for a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts. The rest as they say is history.
I wish, though, that I had the opportunity to hone my skills from a younger age. I wish I had the option to do arts in high school. I wish it wasn’t frowned upon to study arts at varsity, that society accepted it as a viable career path. I wish it was treated as importantly as Maths or Science is.
There are kids out there who probably feel the same way I did growing up, out of place, uninterested in what the schools have to offer and stuck because they aren’t able to go to a private school.
I’ve always felt that part of my purpose in life is to help kids like me, find their calling while they are still young. I want them to know that doing the arts is not a dead end. I want the arts to be an option and possibility for every Namibian child, who wants it.
My purpose in life is to live a full life, despite all the shortcomings. Despite being an orphan, despite being from a minority group, despite being a black woman from Africa. And if I can inspire at least one person in this world to live their best life then I would have lived a full life.
Find out what the MONO writers have to say about their life’s purpose.
Iyaloo Magongo
I believe that every person has his own dreams and aspirations but what is the purpose of life when you are living a life you are not happy about, when you are not doing what you love to do and when you are living your life for someone else? One thing I promised myself is that I am never ever going to live my life to fulfil someone else‘ existence. I’m going to live my life to fulfil my existence! My purpose in life is to achieve all my planned out goals and objectives, to work hard and to never look back, to grow and flourish, to use my talent to reach out, to encourage and inspire every young woman to fulfil and follow their dreams and most importantly to live the life I’ve always envisioned on my vision board. Making my parents and myself proud is my core motive and when I die they can all say “Life Well Lived.
Rena Stephanus
I strongly agree with the statement that we aren’t just born to pay bills and die, I believe that my purpose in life is to live and not just exist, through everything that I do. Accepting the gifts that life has granted me and working on those gifts to better my life and those around me. The goal is to reach the level of self-actualization.
Shallot Mohutege
My purpose? I don’t think I have that figured out quite yet. Right now I’m just winging it. Trying to finish my degree and see what life has in store for me … I would write all that crap about bringing world peace and what crazy ideas people have but to be honest I would just be lying … besides, I am only 21. I barely have my life figured out yet. This is sad but true..
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