Childhood a reflection of purpose?

QUESTION: Masters, many spiritual counselors say in order to find your true purpose in life you have to go back to your childhood and find what you’ve dreamed about and enjoyed doing as a child. Coming from a dysfunctional family, I did not have a normal childhood. I’ve meditated and gone back to find my true calling; however, all I can remember is having an adult responsibility as a child. What do I have to do to find out my true purpose so I may find a career that I can really enjoy and fulfill my life?                                                      ~Victoria, USA

ANSWER: What these counselors say is true if you come down to Earth with the intention to experience most of your life lessons while you have the adult mentality to work through them. Then you will have leisurely spent your early life dreaming of the way you will use your freedom of choice to assist you through your lessons. Your dreams are similar to a run-through of your upcoming trials and tribulations. You envision exactly what will assist your purpose and also make you happy in the way of a job and you visualize these possibilities.

It is different when your lessons start almost at day one of your existence. You are spending so much effort just going through each day that you have no time to spend visualizing an alternate or better solution.

You have been fulfilling your purpose from early on in this lifetime. You have worked through control issues, lack of love, watching family members on a self-destruction path, and you have persevered. You have begun to accept yourself as being different from them, a strong person of self-worth, and are now beginning to honor yourself. You still have to dream forward. That is to say, take the time to feel what you want to do in life. Then go out and do it.

Your choices are boundless, as long as you accept that they are. Meditate on the perfect ending for your difficult beginning. Know that you are capable of doing anything that you desire. Part of your life lessons is to start anew with your dreams as an adult. Create your own future.