“Life Lesson 2: don’t make someone else the source of your purpose for existing.”

Life Lesson 2: don’t make someone else the source of your purpose for existing. Your emotional motivation to achieve something in this world must come from within. The thought struck like lightning. And from that revelation—from that clean, bright recognition of the root cause of his condition—something finally lifted. The fog of depression began to break. He reengaged the outside world—slowly, cautiously—this time, armed with a new sense of purpose that was truly his own—and a clear life mission.