[puddingandpie]

Have you ever done something and right from the beginning had a strong feeling that that was your purpose in life, to do that particular thing?

Anything from music, art, maths, science, plumbing...I don't know, could be anything.

At 21, I feel I am getting that now but I don't know if I'm just being silly.

[james1211]

To spend time doing sports that scare and thrill me. I'm a thrill seeker, and two years ago i discovered that. Now i zipline, kayak, white water raft, mountain bike, ski, surf and mountaineer.

[sam.hunton]

At 17 did some work experience in a primary school. Have just qualified as a teacher and still enjoying it just as much!

[advent2]

(Original post by puddingandpie)
Have you ever done something and right from the beginning had a strong feeling that that was your purpose in life, to do that particular thing?

Anything from music, art, maths, science, plumbing...I don't know, could be anything.

At 21, I feel I am getting that now but I don't know if I'm just being silly.

I have an idea for a book to write which I think could possibly be my calling.

[robo donkey]

I'm fairly sure my destiny is a Primary School teacher, although I'm starting a secondary geography pgce, I'll apply for primary jobs after it, I'm only now doing Primary experience after getting my place as it's required and I absolutely love it, the kids are just brilliant and I end up walking home grinning like a mental Cheshire Cat every afternoon and I've made such a top impression I'm allowed to stay until the summer holidays now as well . I'm not changing my PGCE or reapplying for Primary as I risk losing my geography place anyway and might end up with nothing, lots of primary school teachers actually have secondary PGCEs anyway, so that doesn't bother me so much anyway.

At this moment in life I'm probably the happiest I've ever been in all 22 years of it, quite honestly. One pupil even got me a present and thank you card on Friday after 5 days of experience :3

Sorry for the long post but I'm in such a good place right now, I can't help it

[cgraham15]

I want to write books. I also just have a feeling that something is going to happen in my life that will change things for the best.

[sitbywolf]

Being born, realising that; then improvising throughout my life.

[The_Lonely_Goatherd]

For a long time I felt that music was what I was being called to in life. By the time I left Oxford, I realised it was far simpler than that. God/the universe/whatever had put me in that place at that time so that I could look after someone who really needed my help and love them. And so that's what I did at the time

[sliceofcake]

I've always loved writing and I've noticed that whenever some writing is required in my work I can never help myself from going into details and writing in depth. I'll have written about a page for what I feel is just a summary whereas everyone else has written just a few lines. I've always had a passion for it, though I don't have all that much confidence in it to believe I could make a career out of it though if I can that would be amazing.
I was drifting around a few ideas for what I could do in university last year when we had to start a Contextual Studies unit, which was basically History of Art. I pretty much fell in love with it and I looked forward to every lecture and even the homework. I'm much more interested in this than I have been in anything for years. I'm so worried that I'll get to university and change my mind, not just for the waste of time but because I'm already so interested that I would hate to discard it all.

[katyness]

Music and medicine.

When I sing my heart lightens up and I get that feeling inside that I could do this forever and ever.

And I think it's my destiny to be a doctor because I've been wanting to do so since I was 5 and there is nothing else I could consider as a profession

[miser]

Yes, that is, if you mean what I want to do with my life. I want to one day take over my sensei's aikido club and continue the good work that he has been doing. I wouldn't call it a purpose, since I don't feel it was in any way assigned to me, but it is something important to me.

[Sammy95]

i dont know if this is it, but i really want to do photography. i mean all the time i've wanted to do something with children, it changed from being a teacher, to a pediatrician,to being a play therapist - but now i've been given a chance to start a photography course next year, i think its what i really want to do as it has always been in my interests, but i never had the chance to do it. i still love children and will always do, but i think photography is for me hopefully. i mean i can still bring children into my career by taking photos of them eh?

[puddingandpie]

There have been quite a few things that i've seriously thought I wanted to do...at school I was convinced I wanted to do medicine, then at college I really wanted to do history, then when I was doing history I decided to drop out (for a number of reasons I should add), now I'm doing law....but....

last summer I went to see a spiritual medium and she asked me if I played the guitar and I said err no I love music but I've never played an instrument. Well she said, you should do because you have this ability to read music. Well I just thought, ok, she could say that about anyone really.

So anyway, to cut to the chase, in October I dropped out of uni and I thought that I should learn something completely new...so I started playing the guitar...not thinking about what she told me, I had pretty much forgotten about it.

But anyway, my teacher told me that I pick things up so quickly and that I could be really great at playing. It just feels so natural to play like nothing that I've ever done before. I feel like a new world has opened up to me.

INcredibly cheesy I know but haha I just don't know what to do cos I'm studying law now and it's always pretty much been drilled into me from school that I need to go to uni, get a degree, study academic subjects. But I'm seriously thinking that it's not me.

Sorry to go on, i'll stop now

[me, myself and I]

Learning languages
It just comes so naturally. I can speak 6, and can read 7, all of varying levels. I was bilingual to begin with but ever since I was young I always had a flair for it. I could speak 4 at the age of 2 but since moving to the UK I forgot two of those, then replaced them with 4 others

Mum says I get the language bug from my grandad, who knows about 8 or something. My aim is to reach 10 by the time i'm 30! (30 sounds so old. jeepers.)

[Jaidenh]

(Original post by james1211)
To spend time doing sports that scare and thrill me. I'm a thrill seeker, and two years ago i discovered that. Now i zipline, kayak, white water raft, mountain bike, ski, surf and mountaineer.

Snap!

[james1211]

(Original post by Jaidenh)
Snap!

Awesome! It still shocks me how many people won't go outside their comfort zone, i treat these sports as being normal but clearly they aren't when you see the looks on some peoples faces!

[Psyk]

My calling is making video games.

[IndiaCaitlinn]

I absolutely love Drama & Music, my Dad has always been musical so I think I got that from him.
This sounds incredibly cheesy but the best feeling in the world for me is being on stage in a play/musical

[Jaidenh]

(Original post by james1211)
Awesome! It still shocks me how many people won't go outside their comfort zone, i treat these sports as being normal but clearly they aren't when you see the looks on some peoples faces!

It really gets on my nerves when peoPle don't step out of their comfort zone.

I always have to take the risk.

[james1211]

(Original post by Jaidenh)
It really gets on my nerves when peoPle don't step out of their comfort zone.

I always have to take the risk.

I know right. And most of the time with some encouragement they turn out to be pretty good at whatever it is and start enjoying it.

I'm taking up skydiving next year as my next (not cheap) thrill.