Have you felt all of your life that you are waiting for something, that there is some other purpose for you being here?

Yes, I do feel like I am waiting for something... especially some epiphany that tells me why I'm here, and what my purpose is.

I think i have a purpose..I don't know what it is, but it's there...

no

Yes... it's called death. It is my purpose for being here and it is what I await.

No. "Purpose" is meaningless outside of what my life means to me and the people around me, anyway.

Options would have been good.

Sometimes.

No. I don't think like this at all. It's better to make something happen today than to sit around waiting. Opportunities, passions/purpose, motivations and such aren't exactly going to pop up one day as you are sitting around waiting.
It doesn't happen like that!

Just the usual fantasy about meeting someone - like a soul mate.

But I have a feeling that there is more to my career than I'm currently doing.

Yes, if I wait long enough everything will fall in my lap

I don't think you mean you are literally sitting there "waiting" for something to happen, after all you have been living all this time. You need to take stock of your life and what you have accomplished so far. There is still time to accomplish a lot. If it feels as though you are missing something you may indeed have bypassed your true calling or missed being where you should have been at a crucial turning point in your life. (I wonder why you mention specifically the age 15?) Even so, this is all part of the great plan of your life. It may be time to give up some things you are doing/working at and start along a different path. I don't necessarily mean something as mundane as a job either. Whatever you are or are not doing if you are not happy with your choices you owe it to yourself to at least do a little thinking about what you have done and where you are going. We are the organizers of our own lives, no one or nothing is suddenly going to give you purpose, that's up to you.

This is a hypothetical question? Does that mean it is a "made up" one or hypothetical to us?

No not really............ maybe this "something" has already happened to you but , its something insignificant and you think there is more, but really that was it?

Ok, at the risk of sounding like a crazy person, I will elaborate. I feel like I am in the wrong place. I hate to mention it... (sigh, I can just imagine where this is going to go) I feel like I was put here and that at some point I will be able to go home. I have recurring dreams, I have memories that I can't place in my lifetime. It is all very confusing. The greater purpose in my life is not something I myself can achieve. I feel like it's something that will happen. Ok, let it rip.

I have felt something like this at times in my life, but not all my life. What you ask first in the question and the beginning of the explanation sound more positive, while the last two sentences of the explanation sound more negative. I've felt something like the latter more, I think, usually when I was in a bad relationship that I was beginning to realize I needed to get out of. The former, for me, has more to do with the fact that I have been working on my education continuously for pretty much all my life, and I'm not done with it yet. So I have always felt quite concretely that I am working towards some goal or some other purpose that hasn't happened yet. I haven't had a real full-time paid job yet, and I feel like I'm still waiting for that part of my life to begin. Of course, it's all much more in my control than what I think you're talking about.

You're obviously an alien. The mother-ship will return to take you back to your home planet next Tuesday.

Seriously, though, and I don't mean this in a you're-obviously-crazy way, but have you thought about talking to a therapist about this? This is just the kind of thing they can often help with--making you comfortable being in your own skin, which it sounds like you're not.

No

You really think it's all about you, don't you?

http://www.edgar-cayce.org/

This is where I found my answers back in the early 1970's.

Yes, there is a reason behind everything. It is also true that some things don't resolve in this lifetime.

It sounds like you are ready to investigate your options .

> Ok, at the risk of sounding like a crazy person,
> I will elaborate. I feel like I am in the wrong
> place. I hate to mention it... (sigh, I can just
> imagine where this is going to go) I feel like
> I was put here and that at some point I will be
> able to go home. I have recurring dreams, I have
> memories that I can't place in my lifetime. It
> is all very confusing. The greater purpose in
> my life is not something I myself can achieve.
> I feel like it's something that will happen.
> Ok, let it rip.

PLEASE go to the Edgar Cayce site. What you have described fits with many of the "readings."

Go to the search page and type in "reincarnation" to get started.

http://www.edgar-cayce.org/

Home is where your heart is.
You know that. Once you go inside your heart, and find peace there, there is no longer any reason to go 'look' or wait for something to happen. Your peace is with you now. It is right there under your nose.

Oh...Enigma...!

Have you tried Diazapan? or Thorazine?........... sorry, just being cynical.....did you read patarnone or ehudeanna post?

Never taught about that!!

When my SO of 8 1/2 yrs. died I kept saying I just wanted to go home even though I was sitting on my couch. Maybe your home lies within something of someone. I have accepted the fact that I will never be able to go home and I am simply awaiting the inevitable. I do nothing to push towards it. I just know it's coming. I am not afraid. I find peace in knowing that I do not have to wait anymore. It will come inevitably and I make the most of what time I have now. I have fun and do things others only wish they could do. I went sky diving, snorkeling, and I went to Europe. Do stuff. Don't wait. The more you do the quicker it comes. Soon enough we all find our way.

No.

Yes, me getting on the Forbes' Richest list.

pssst...
don't forget your friends at SC

I really no what you mean... you've got a lot of ticks on the clock hopefully.. something will happen.. but maybe you should be looking for it.. thats what I feel like.. I just always feel like I should be living another life somewhere.. but I need to find it.. it aint gonna come to me.. I think we make our own fate.. at least we help it along.

I won't.

I want you all guys to be there with me

Hmm....

Now that you mention it, I have that feeling sometimes....I'll just be sitting there waiting for something but it feels like something more is going to happen........It's a strange feeling.....Maybe we're both crazy..?

I dont' see how waiting for something wonderful is related to your purpose in life, unless finding that purpose is a good thing.

I wonder about what the hell I'm here for other than to exist. For that matter what good is human life at all? For 99% of the "normal" people life is just a mundane existence until you die.

I sort of know what you mean. We all must have some purpose for existing. Why were we created? We must have been created for some purpose.

This is just too deep of a question for me. I'm getting freaked out now. lol

...the "push" for "normality" is what drives us to "insanity"

we all have an inter desire/need to meet our CREATOR , so i am and believe everyone else is waiting for that moment

I believe my purpose will not come to light until after I am dead. I keep all of my writing private because I am too afraid of rejection to go anywhere with it. I believe my only chance is one of those Emily Dickinson things - no one even KNEW she wrote poetry. It wasn't until she had died that her poems were found. If it doesn't happen this way I will have been for little purpose.