The purpose of life …

August 31st, 2008 admin

Kavita is driving her Pontiac Vibe south towards Charlotte, North Carolina, and eventually Atlanta, Georgia; it is still the beginning of this Labor Day weekend. I am settled is the passenger seat with the laptop in my lap and Louis Armstrong’s Greatest Hits enveloping us.  The sun is setting to my left, lining the edges of the blue-gray clouds in brilliant yellow-orange.My thoughts drift in and out of a notion I stumbled upon a couple of weeks ago. It came unannounced and in a spark of realization. However, it has stayed with me for quite some time. And I now think that it deserves some more inspection and hence this write-up. The notion, the thought, was with respect to a question all of us ask ourselves, and wonder about, at some point in our life. Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? Are we simply on nature’s rollercoaster, evolving forever to be able to survive, as the conditions allow it? Is life just purposeless meandering of helpless beings? Is purpose something we concoct and associate with life to try to give it some shape and meaning? Are we just telling ourselves stories to make passing our time here a little easier? Are these stories about the purpose of life, and we know there are many versions, with many names, just the grandest of the entertaining illusions created for us and by us, entertainment-seekers? Read the rest of this entry »

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