Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Madness doesnt get any bigger than this

What is life? The answer to this question occupied the lives of our great philosophers and thinkers and most of them ended up providing us better ways to live and let live, but no one has been able to gives the answer to real question itself? What is the purpose of our lives, why are we here, why is that we become what we are, who we are and why is it I was born where I was and you were born where you were born? But then, to answer these, you need to define what or who an individual is! What is I and You? Does I and you correspond to two independent human entities with different views, opinions etc? This then transforms the question of ‘who I am’ and gives us another perspective of we are what we are because of where we are! An individual is not born. You and I were not born because when we were born, the difference between ‘who you are’ and ‘who I am’ is nothing. Except for the genetic information, our thoughts, actions are all something similar. It is then that the separation takes place, our upbringing, circumstances, and way of living and what we see around us. So an individual is the result of what he/she sees around himself and the influence of what he sees around himself and an individual is the manifestation of the society's influence upon a human entity. Individual therefore are made, not born.

This too does not answer what is life and what its purpose is. I believe that the society influences a person and this influence is because the society wants something from the individual, something that the individual must supply the environment with and we do not what we must give it. Unless we are able to find out what it is, our lives won’t be complete and it would lack a meaning and purpose. This is what I would like to call destiny. This is what I would like to call the purpose of our living.

It is to find out what the society wants from and the pursuit of this knowledge and also providing the society with what we must, with that, which is our destiny is to provide. For it is the society and the environment that makes us and teaches us right from wrong and even these rights and wrongs are relative since each environment has its own rights and wrongs. It provides with what we need and so it is our duty to serve the environment.

Therefore life is a pursuit of this knowledge about our destiny and once we know what it is, to fulfill the destiny. This is what gives meaning and purpose to life.

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