The earth was an accident. The life on it was an accident too. The human evolution, with a strong backing from the all time popular Darwin’s say, was also a happening. No one made it happen it just happened. Everything out here seems to be so ephemeral at times. Paradox of the situation is that everyone is aware of everything, yet we are in a relentless league of finding a meaning to our existence and in a race of achieving nothing other than “a perception”, a picture of completeness that never seems to be complete and calls in for more and more all the time.
What next is the question to fiddle with! The code of conduct, the paradigms of success, the need of competition, the need to have more, sense of stigma in not achieving a particular thing- are all shades of a human mind- shaped by the society, imbibed by the upbringing and a million factors shaping the human soul once into this world. A materialistic aspiration is not a wrong expectation from life. I certainly do not advocate doing nothing because we do not have a hundred answers. Nevertheless, is pondering upon the cosmic quagmire behind our very survival not sensible?
I perceive that if human existence itself was an accident, finding a purpose of my stay here gets even murkier. Finding that purpose is a long-term exercise and many have said that urge for knowing the purpose keeps the journey worth living. While the content here shapes up to be even more abstract and attracts a sense of adsurdity, the unknown answers in this pool persistently keep me riddled.
Some one like Mother Terresa found the meaning of life in being a parent to a millions of those suffering around. A revolutionary thinks that the nation’s political independence is most important for a dignified human survival and he makes it his life pledge. While, some one like Aurobindo Ghosh- a staunch and a moderate freedom fighter leaves the stage in the eye of the battle. He envisages more meaning in finding the meaning to philosophical resolution of human existence than in the political freedom of India. “A nation”,“society”, “common class”,“disparity”,“assimilation of wealth”,”success”,“self-worth”- what ever be our scaling zones, they all are nothing but self-created conceptions. Nothing existed before we did. Each individual is running towards a goal that falls in the shadow of the above quoted arenas. Just that while running we tend to forget the end ribbon on the running track is never in sight, what so ever might be our age, experience, colour of our hair and wrinkles on the face!
