{"id":29166,"date":"2025-11-10T17:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=29166"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:04:09","slug":"what-is-the-meaning-of-life-and-how-can-you-have-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/11\/10\/what-is-the-meaning-of-life-and-how-can-you-have-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the meaning of life? and how can you have purpose?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AW111025-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AW111025-2.jpeg\" alt=\"What is the meaning of life? and how can you have purpose?\" class=\"wp-image-29160\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What is the meaning of life? and how can you have purpose?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This question is a pressing one for most people, so it&#8217;s a great service to them that you asked. I wish I had an answer. The difficulty is it&#8217;s different for everyone. Perhaps rephrase the question: how can I find my purpose and meaning? Father Himes (1947-2022), a beloved professor of theology at BC, said to ask yourself three key questions: What brings me joy? What am I good at? To whom can I be of service? Your meaning and purpose is where those three overlap. Here&#8217;s his famous lecture:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/himes-3key\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bit.ly\/himes-3key<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This question is a pressing one for most people, so it&#8217;s a great service to them that you asked. I wish I had an answer. The difficulty is it&#8217;s different for everyone. Perhaps rephrase the question: how can I find my purpose and meaning? Father Himes (1947-2022), a beloved professor of theology at BC, said &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/11\/10\/what-is-the-meaning-of-life-and-how-can-you-have-purpose\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is the meaning of life? and how can you have purpose?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29177,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29166\/revisions\/29177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}