Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life: Difference between revisions

* This is a recurring theme for Commander Sinclair on [[Babylon 5]] during the first season. It doesn't get resolved until his third season reappearance {{spoiler|where it turns out his true purpose is to go back in time and become Valen}}.

** Garibaldi points out in an early episode that Sinclair goes about looking for his purpose by putting himself into suicidal situations. Garibaldi's theory is that Sinclair is doing this because "it's easier to find something worth dying for than something worth living for." In another episode, Delenn implies that this trope is the reason she didn't tell Sinclair about her decision to go down to Epsilon 3 to try and get the Great Machine working. She feared that if Sinclair had gone with, he would have plugged himself into the Machine, and she felt his destiny lay elsewhere.

 

== Music ==

** This trope is also used to a lesser extent in "Winter Wrap-up", with Twilight spending most of the episode [["I Want" Song|singing]] and attempting to find a way to help in the titular event.

* Depressingly played with in the animated short "The Monk's Purpose," which aired on ''[[Liquid Television]]''. A pilgrim comes to a stone idol in the desert, and asks it, "What is my purpose?" {{spoiler|the idol comes to life and eats him, then spits out his staff onto a nearby pile of similar staffs.}}

* Betty Staines from ''[[Staines Down Drains]]'', who is shown starting a new job at the beginning of every episode.

 

== Real Life ==