"Everyone tells me that I need to prepare for life. Do you want to be poor? Jobless? What will you do in life? Errrr....wait, aren’t I already living life? "
If 6 years ago you had told me that the purpose of life is to make money, to go to school and pass those exams with flying colours, to join the crazy fan following of TWILIGHT, to write steamy kissing scenes during Biology Classes, to be the eternal obedient daughter well I would have bent my head and nodded helplessly. But today I'd look you straight in the eye and SMILE or perhaps grin evilishly.
Society actually thought that it could map out a life for me leaving me with the sole option of either following it or being shunned by all.
It actually thought that it could give birth to me, nurture me, send me to school, give me ideas of getting a job, finding Prince Charming, tieing the knot, having children..Pft, what’s so great about society anyways?
Then Aerh struck me like a real blessing and I wanted to discover THE REAL purpose of life, the meaning behind things, the deeper understanding. I wanted to be an annoying little sociologist who had to analyze situations, decipher socities, discover what it meant to be alive...
Nobody had the answers to my question. Everyone had their theories about life, heaven, hell, after-life, evolution and creation...and nobody could defeat GOOGLE who gave me Sartre theory of "Beingness for Others" , Scientific and Religious Answers.
When I finally turned 14 it was actually pretty clear to me that we all live so that we could eat some really good food, become a food maniac like Aditya Bal, invent recipes with Dad in the kitchen and then getting kicked by Mom! Atleast that was my quintessential foody relationship..
Then sociological imagination dawned and it was pretty clear to me that ACTUALLY nobody have the answers!
Just like different societies have different sets of values, norms and cultures.. each individual who I today believe is a whole society within himself (SUPRA-INDIVIDUAL) has an approach to life which is indeed distinctive to others! These perceptions, opinions, prejudices, ideas, paradigms are part of each of us that we venerate as the ultimate truth. Thus a kaleidoscope of subjective thinking presents themselves and most of us get entangle in it like a stupid chewing gum on a spider web. I hate Spiderman! Ppffiitt.
At the end of the day Life Has The Purpose That I Give It! Society has strangled us enough!
Instead of trying to earn a living, I’d rather just live life. Life is beautiful. Every day is a blank canvas- a tabla rasula waiting to be drawn on. Using determination, dreams, passion, My Self and a splash of exuberance I paint a beautiful picture. Some days I run out of determination and my picture isn’t as pretty but that’s okay because tomorrow I’ll just mix up some new colours and start on a new canvas.
"I make people laugh. I dance. I help others. I am respect. I enjoy every day of my blessed life."
These are my purposes that I've already attained in my soul, mind and body. They might change, but right now, these goals and ambitions make up the middle of my drawing. There is no obstacle in life bigger than the obstacles within us. Go wild, create your own reality and dare them to stop you. Dare society to hinder you for without you that very society would cease to exist! Dare those cowards to stop you from being Who You Are and Who You Want To Be!
Society actually thought that it could map out a life for me leaving me with the sole option of either following it or being shunned by all.
It actually thought that it could give birth to me, nurture me, send me to school, give me ideas of getting a job, finding Prince Charming, tieing the knot, having children..Pft, what’s so great about society anyways?
Then Aerh struck me like a real blessing and I wanted to discover THE REAL purpose of life, the meaning behind things, the deeper understanding. I wanted to be an annoying little sociologist who had to analyze situations, decipher socities, discover what it meant to be alive...
Nobody had the answers to my question. Everyone had their theories about life, heaven, hell, after-life, evolution and creation...and nobody could defeat GOOGLE who gave me Sartre theory of "Beingness for Others" , Scientific and Religious Answers.
When I finally turned 14 it was actually pretty clear to me that we all live so that we could eat some really good food, become a food maniac like Aditya Bal, invent recipes with Dad in the kitchen and then getting kicked by Mom! Atleast that was my quintessential foody relationship..
Then sociological imagination dawned and it was pretty clear to me that ACTUALLY nobody have the answers!
Just like different societies have different sets of values, norms and cultures.. each individual who I today believe is a whole society within himself (SUPRA-INDIVIDUAL) has an approach to life which is indeed distinctive to others! These perceptions, opinions, prejudices, ideas, paradigms are part of each of us that we venerate as the ultimate truth. Thus a kaleidoscope of subjective thinking presents themselves and most of us get entangle in it like a stupid chewing gum on a spider web. I hate Spiderman! Ppffiitt.
At the end of the day Life Has The Purpose That I Give It! Society has strangled us enough!
Instead of trying to earn a living, I’d rather just live life. Life is beautiful. Every day is a blank canvas- a tabla rasula waiting to be drawn on. Using determination, dreams, passion, My Self and a splash of exuberance I paint a beautiful picture. Some days I run out of determination and my picture isn’t as pretty but that’s okay because tomorrow I’ll just mix up some new colours and start on a new canvas.
"I make people laugh. I dance. I help others. I am respect. I enjoy every day of my blessed life."
These are my purposes that I've already attained in my soul, mind and body. They might change, but right now, these goals and ambitions make up the middle of my drawing. There is no obstacle in life bigger than the obstacles within us. Go wild, create your own reality and dare them to stop you. Dare society to hinder you for without you that very society would cease to exist! Dare those cowards to stop you from being Who You Are and Who You Want To Be!