Pursue renewal of your life purpose. We've learned that the language of culture tries to convince us that we should pursue success and fame, outward beauty, and the accumulation of things as means to gauge our purpose in life. But these things center on you, making you look good and feel good. God did not create humanity so it could lose itself in these false pursits. We derive our purpose in life by being rightly related to God and understanding our position before him. Only from this vantage point will life make sense.
from Veneer: Living Deeply in a Surface Society by Timothy Willard