The last time that I tried to outrightly share my beliefs and passion about why I chose to pursue a purpose-driven life, I received some serious flack from some strangers online. This was over on LinkedIn, and yeah, it was prior to me rejoining WordPress in 2022. In my post, I wrote that it is my deep belief that God has given all of us a purpose. Perhaps what I should’ve mention is that that purpose could mean different things to different people. And at the different stages in our lives, that purpose/plan could look quite different. As I began looking back on my own journey and how God led me to where I am right now, I had to believe that perhaps God’s purpose for me in 2014/2015 was to leave my job and to go into freelancing full-time. It’s perhaps not the most practical thing, leaving my job; but it is also because of that decision to leave that eventually led to my single biggest breakthrough as a freelancer at that point. It would also eventually lead to me securing my first dream job of my career.

Maybe you would try to argue that I’m just trying to find meaning in things where there was no meaning. Maybe you are right. But when I consider all the breadcrumbs (signs) that God has left along the journey for me getting here, I couldn’t help but think that this isn’t just coincidence. There has to be a reason.

Even if this is just me finding meaning in things in my life, I never regretted the decision to follow my passion. Sure, the journey itself has been grueling for the past decade. The amount of personal sacrifices and challenges I had to wade through will make anybody say that I’m crazy/insane. But I did, I persevered for as long as I could. I walked away from the path back in 2019, but during the pandemic, I guess God brought me right back again. This weekend, as I begin to witness some of my best work on the freelance project that I’ve been given, I am once again reminded that I am right where I need to be. I am doing exactly what God wanted me to do. This is my calling. This is my purpose. This is my ikigai. And I have absolutely zero regrets about everything that I had to do [sacrifice] to get here.