Depends what you mean by purpose. If someone feels some innate desire to say write, explore, make art etc how do you know that is not something deeply within them that they simply have to play out in this life? What reason do you have to discard that as an illusion of purpose?
This is not the exchange I expected to see upon opening this thread.
Why not? Mike Ashley transfer windows are enough to lull anyone into a state of existential ennui.