Purpose? No thanks, I’m here anyway
What are people looking for if they read a story?
Something that inspires them to make a change. Find a solution to one of their problems. There is a great need for a way to realise self-actualization. It’s what all the big books are about. How to be.
Where does this striving come from? What makes und wanting to be a better person everyday? Is it some natural trait everybody possesses?
We will we will rock you. Dum Dum Bam. Don’t just read as much and as fast as you can! There is really no read to hurry.
Anyway, let’s talk about self improvement. We are always doing it. It’s in our nature. All you need to do is stand less in the way of it. How do we stand in the way?
The need to control it. Wanting to understand the process. After all, why be a good human if we can’t take credit for it?
The bible guy and all the other dudes were apparently really rocking it. (I don’t say the names because I want to avoid the explosion of attached sentiments. If you want, go ahead and say their names in your head a few times. There is a lot there, isn’t it?)
Back to topic. As far as I know (source: I didn’t research this), they didn’t write most of the stories. It was some followers that wrote down what they observed. Analyzing their behaviour and its effects.
My take on this: What if they had no idea what they were doing? Maybe they didn’t plan for that to happen. No 10 rules of success they followed. They just went with what feels right.
They definitely didn’t force anything.
We love to think of the utopia with humanity as purely enlightened beings. Right now our primary effort in getting there is to understand everything. We invent math, physics, sociology to analyze all that is happening around us.
But understanding music theory doesn’t automatically make you a great artist. Or having read all the books about interacting with people still won’t guarantee a fulfilling social life.
It’s more important to get in tune first.
It’s hard because there is no one solution. Everyday is a new challenge. You cannot figure it out. And it’s scary because to really get in tune means to really be there. The real you. That which you hold so dear. Maybe you sometimes show it to close friends or family. But there is an even truer version of yourself. That which you show to nobody.
I think that’s life’s purpose. Or atleast a good thing to do while your here. Opening up to the world.
I’ve dreaded it myself. Situations where all I wanted was to run away because out of nowhere live just became to intense. Well, that is, as soon as I started thinking.
What are the implications? What does it mean? How will this turn out? and so on…
Only few times I arrived at not thinking. I partly blame the school system. We are so well trained at overanalyzing that we can hardly break out of it. This is especially true with engineers. It is our modus operandi. What we rely on. Most people tell me they could never study mechanical engineering. Sometimes I wish neither could I. Having to be either drunk or super exhausted to stop processing each input to a logical statement is annoying at times.
Part of me wants to have a purpose, wants to find true love. Still, I can’t help feeling that with any agenda I get attached to outcome. Textbook setting myself up for failure.
Faces on the way reflect the sorrow society puts itself into. In a tight grip of the burden to succeed. Feeling inadequate in most situations because you’re not yet that glamourous person you wish you were.
“You come from Nothing, you go back to nothing. What did you loose? Nothing!” — Monty Python
