Life can become a lot more fun If you give it a sense of purpose Life becomes a void if it has none A black hole that can usurp us A purpose - it need not mean Anything lofty, majestic or profound It’s a thing from which you can glean Contentment, pleasure, joy unbound A purpose - it imbues your simplest act With a deeper reason or aspiration It can help your work have an impact It can help you provide inspiration A purpose - even the simplest one Can work wonders for a woman or a man It really can be quite as simple as To be helpful to others when you can A purpose - it’s like a beacon that guides The ships and boats through a storm With its light they can navigate the tides It can illuminate, educate and inform All the great philosophers of history Have asked what’s life and how to live it I have found that there’s no great mystery The purpose of your life is what you give it