Purpose; Part 2

Do we have a purpose in life?
We have many purposes in life, all of us, mainly individual purposes, but purposes never the less, as a species are purpose appears to be to breed and survive. I think we're doing very well, its sort of a good thing that people die sometimes, when people die, its sad, but its because of them dying that we can all carry on, their deaths allow others to live on through the extra resources that that person can no longer accumulate, through the extra space in this world.
Individual purposes in life are built in, we all have them, but it depends how you see them, when I was younger, all I ever wanted to be was a soldier, I didn't know why I did but I did. Then through out my teenage years it was one of the things I used to daydream about. Now I'm legally an adult i still thing about it, probably way more then I should, I would be a soldier now if I wasn't committed to my daughter and girlfriend, not to mention some friends who seem to dislike the idea, personally, i think I'd be great soldier, I mean I have the right mind frame and could kill at will.
You might be thinking that that's an aspiration and not a purpose, but if I had this built in all my life and have thought about it for more then a decade then it is one of my purposes and so is the protection of my daughter, this could also be linked our species purpose to survive.

Is there a divine path laid out for us?
We can never truly know if the decision we make on anything was premeditated by a higher power, not necessarily a god as such, just a force or being far more advanced then us, thats one of my beliefs so please don't construe that as a blasphemy.
I'd like to belief that any decision we make is ours and ours alone. We have all at one time sought after something with conflicting thoughts, like the decision on which can of drink to buy, I personally dislike the idea that the drink I choose was decided by someone other then myself and always would have been, the idea of fate makes everything you hold dear and secret, well, its no longer private, your innermost thoughts, fears and secrets have been violated by fate and become almost dreamlike as you feel there no longer yours.
I think its impossible the live with the idea of fate, by that i mean to live believing in fate, it would destroy me, essentially it would destroy my purpose, on reflection; as i allow myself to collect all my thoughts on both 'fate' and 'purposes',I can't help but to put forward the idea that maybe me wanting to be a soldier was not my own, I was young then, I can't really recall if I was swayed in anyway towards this infatuation of mine, all i can say is that i hope not.

These are my thoughts, fears and secrets.........

..........Or are they?