"Purpose"

Purpose, the question that haunts us every-time, every moment of our lives. like for the instance you are now trying to understand whats in my mind when I am writing this. Sometime we add incentives to our purposes as we grow, but most of the times we just keep one to feel we have one. This keeps us busy and sometime makes us proud, as we believe we are the only species that can have a purpose and simultaneously understand what it is and why it is. From the moment we start understanding things around us we start manipulating them within our mind, with our previous understandings to find a new purpose in them. Its like a thing in us, as we are designed to do it. Most of the times when we just give up understanding things when it goes beyond our limit to understand we just accept what others tell us, still somewhere inside we want to try that our selves, like that feeling to press that red button and see what happens next.

From one purpose we keep we develop our understanding, then from that understanding we develop our next purpose. So the next purpose is always linked to the percent completion of the first one, when we gave that up. Now the question comes, is it our choice of how and what we make of our lives. May be yes may be no. But we can always decide when to have one purpose that will have positive outcome and when to leave a negative purpose from our mind that may have negative outcome.

To get a look into it from another point of view, consider of the society we live in, with time our society had developed its rules and perceptions, these perceptions were present before we were born. Sometime we think most of the perceptions are correct not knowing and challenging why, like praying, helping others, celebrating festivals and most of the times we all agree some perceptions are rudimentary, old and no longer exist with present system, like wars, male discrimination and so on still we follow them cuz they were there and everyone had understood its significance from his our purpose of perspective. That is the exact behavior of purposes we keep and how they effect our lives. We need to recognize with time what purposes will benefit us and what we need to de-attach from.

Another problem is we have a tendency of personalizing others purposes. We always think we gonna be heroes someday, whose definition is decided by others, and as we grow with tijme we keep manipulating the definition of hero. This is what we call later complexity of life, which we all understand till some point and then give up understanding. That's where I believe religion comes in and gives us a feeling that someone more knowledgeable than us might know and from there we leave it up to that fictitious person. I am not considering the emotional aspect of religion here just trying to interpret one part of it.

So now having said all of the bullshit above I can easily say that its better sometimes to switch off our purposes and get a new, random one when we feel the previous one is getting too difficult to understand and making things too complex around us. Ultimate goal of each purpose is mental and physical happiness. When we start feeling unhappy due to that, its healthy to find a new one and redefine happiness for ourselves. We need to remember nobody can define our happiness viz our purpose for us but we ourselves are the deciders to when we need to keep stuck to one purpose and when we need to let go.

The purpose of my article here was to have a point of view about the first thing that came to my mind and it was purpose to find a purpose to write up :)

--Aman