Some call it destiny / faith, others call it the "supreme power".
Regardless the name, for ages, people are continuously searching for answers.
"There are two categories of people: those that are looking for a purpose of life without finding it, and those who found a purpose without looking for it." Emil Cioran - Romanian philosopher and essayist.
Nature has no purpose, plants have no purpose, neither animals.
So why would we have one? What makes us different from them?
As a life form, we act mechanically; same as animals and plants. We know that we need to sleep, eat, hydrate. etc. We know this. But those are not purposes, those are necessities to survive.
Thinking deeper, I can say that our own organs have no purpose.
Jacque Fresco said: "There is no purpose in life. A hard thing to accept".
During the history, kings and explorers searched all their life for the "Holy Grail" or the "Fountain of youth".
In my opinion, given the mentality in those periods, they transformed the concept into a physical object.
Time passed, they followed nature's course, but the idea remained.
The idea remained and, even more, it divided.
In our days, it seems to be something that is extremely important to the masses, or at least to those who are searching for grail significance in life. I call it: "The constructive purpose".
Like I said, the concept of "purpose in life" divided in two categories: The basic idea (why are we here, what's our purpose), and the "constructive purpose" (the parasite).
If you go around the streets and ask around people the basic question, you will see that they're confusing the concept with the "parasite". Many of them will answer: "well, to go to school, to have a better job, a better house/car, get married, etc.". That is definitely not the purpose of life!
It's true that the constructive purpose has its own benefits. You set up a goal and you are doing it FOR something, TO achieve something. But that something has ONLY material value.
A large percentage of people that are setting up a goal with a purpose; when achieved, they forget about it and unconsciously upgrade it; desiring more.
"Live your life without purposes, regardless the nature of it" - Emil Cioran
He sad it clearly. Live free, with no strains attached.
But, in our days, besides the basic necessities (house, clothing, resources, etc.), you must force yourself. So, if setting up your mind to live your life without any purpose... doesn't make that a purpose of it?
It's time to play "what fits in...?". My rules. Put inside a box everything you have: your pencils, your wardrobe, furniture, car, house, everything! Now try to move that around. Pretty hard isn't it?
At one point, you will quit. The slower we move, the faster we die.
Take another box and put inside all your acquaintances, friends, family, etc.
Still heavy but you don't want to quit this time. Because nobody wants to die lonely.
The harder we try to find a purpose, we don't; but when we live our life without a purpose, we don't feel the need to search for one!
All the things that humans experience: life, death, trauma, stress, happiness, unhappiness... are happening for one reason only: to experience.
The only description that fits "the purpose of life" is mystery. Life is a mystery. It takes you to places you never thought you could go, make you do things you never believed you can do.
It's a shame to die without living your life. Life must be lived as it is. It was not handed on request and will be taken without being asked.
You are not responsible for being born. But you are responsible for how you live.
Sources:
Emil Cioran
Jacque Fresco
Anonymous writers
Internet
Still thinking...
Daniel
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