Learning is a never ending process in life. It starts as soon as we are born.
After birth of a child, he initially learn the hand eye coordination, then as a toddler, learns alphabets and number then as a we grow older and older we learn many things related to education then social, also emotional skills, functioning of the society, business models, earnings, many more things in life.
But one thing sometimes, we do forget is "the purpose of life".
What is this all about? Who are we ? Why are we here on earth? How can we make the world a better place to live? When will we do it?
These 5 questions, in my opinio, we must ask ourselves once in a while to remind us the purpose of life.
People have various ambitions, passions and goals but many dwell between the choices they make in life. For an example, " Mr X wanted to be an engineer when he was in school, but he never knew what engineer does except an Architect, who designs and builds buildings. As he grew up came in senior school, suddenly he wanted to be a Scientist, who wants to carry out new experiments , innovations for development of society.
After school, he wanted to be a Pilot or Astronaut because now he was more interested in sky and space. But somehow he joined Mechanical engineering.
During Engineering, he decided to be a scientist again, cleared few exsms. He got the rank but due to some reasons he didn't or say couldn't join. Then he decided to be a lecturer but was not satisfied and wanted to join defence. But somehow he became a Mariner.
In parallel to all of this, family's wishes and relatives pressure , what friends were doing, suggestions from others were also affecting his decisions.
If you see the story of Mr. X then it sounds like a bouncing ball, but did we notice as a young mind the potential he had to achieve things in life? He could be anything if shaped well.
Whenever i see a child i see all what Mr. X had thought and he could have been.
"Life is a journey of decisions made by us." The choices we make today defines the future course and shapes our lives. Making a choice is not an easy task when it comes to a decision for life, we all know about it.
Recently after these many years i suddenly realised making a choice was not that difficult as it sounded, we all know pros and cons of our decisions yet we are scared of the end result. What's that fear?? Is it the fear of failure? or fear of regret?
One will not pass an exam until he appears for it. One will not achieve something unless he tries it.
So we need to keep our choices clear, decisions firm and mind focussed to achieve the goal.
But what is that goal? What is that motto, that purpose ?
Many will say to have a good career, nice house, big car, family, becoming rich, earning fame are the goals.
But only few will say, the purpose of life is to change the world and make it a better place, to make world peaceful, bring harmony, and to save environment for generations to come.
I often wonder why humans are born. Let's take an example of an animal or plant, they take birth, eat other plants, insects, etc and produce by-products which are then consumed by others and it's a chain which we know as food chain.
But look at humans, we take birth, do innovations and developments, then slowly slowly destroy environment by producing harmful gases, chemicals, wastes which are neither consumed by animals, plants or tree nor consumed in earth, for example plastic takes hundreds of years to degrade.
There are various pollution, noise is one type of pollution which is mainly due to industrialisation, traffic, etc. Similarly there are many other pollution, eg: Air, water, soil which we all know, and have written big essays in schools, colleges and even many thesis have been written on these topics, which highlights many sources of pollutions.
Ironically same people, we, use Air conditioning, High end cars, elevators which obviously use fuel, electricity for their operation. For producing electricity we burn fossil fuel, natural gas, wood, coal, etc. We are, in this way, polluting environment.
How do we know what is our purpose? Why are we innovating ? If you say for advancement, Ok then what cost are we paying? We are doing nothing but exploiting the nature around us, the planet on which we are living.
I beleive humans lost their purpose of life when desires increased. When electricity was not invented, humans were expecting life will be easy if some source of light will be discovered. Then it happened , well our expectations increased, now we needed fans , electrical appliances, then sources of entertainment then batteries and then it went on and on. If we ask ourselves this question why aren't we satisfacted at this, then the common answer will be life should be easy and simple. But look, what are we doing to the environment around us?? to trees?? to birds?? to animals? Gone!! Slowly slowly temperature of our planet is increasing, the hole in ozon layer growing bigger in size, immune system is degrading and many other things are happening, which is making me feel that soon Earth will not be habitable.
Ok! Let's go to Mars, moon, Jupiter. Wait!! Then what will we do there?? Advancement? Development??? Then what! Another planet and then another.
Have you yet found out what is the purpose of life?
Think!!
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