24/08/2026
Purpose goes hunting for the big things. Achievements, wins, recognition.
The strange part is that a meaningful life tends to produce all of that anyway. Just never as the goal. Always as a side effect.
Meaning doesn’t need a target. It needs the willingness to play, and enough openness to be surprised. And it turns up in the smallest things, which is exactly why we keep walking past it.
Share this with someone in the middle of their purpose search who could use a different angle on it.
PS: I owe a lot of this to my friend .uhle.philosophie
Unplanned trips, long conversations about meaning, a good number of surprises along the way. He’s a philosopher who writes books on exactly this question.