A general sense of purpose tends to be pretty consistent over a person's life. There are their highest values, the things they most care about. But as someone is approaching early old age, i'm still evolving in my own sense of purpose in this life. So what a person can do then is to establish the feeling in the body of that way of being. That is the enactment or fulfilment of the purpose already here and now. And also it's normal for people to change as time goes on. A flexibility, generally speaking, is a good thing - at least in terms of some degree of psychological flexibility,. which we've talked about as part of the act process.

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