For What?

For what purpose do you live?  What is your reason for being?  Why ask this?  I ask it because many people believe that where they live will make them happy.  So many people live in San Francisco Area and they are not happy.  They thought that this beautiful area would bring them the happiness they did not have wherever else they had been.  It is a town of transplants.   I hope that I have a reason for my being here, a reason and purpose for my life.  “Retirement” is not a reason nor purpose.  What does one do in retirement that has purpose?  Sobriety is not a purpose.  People often go back to their addictive behavior and lifestyle because they did not find a purpose beyond sobriety.  They did not develop a life outside the rooms of recovery.  I wake up with gratitude that I can have some purpose again in my life this day.  I want to be a gift in this life that is given to me.