Life

   Life ... Can anybody please define it for me ? Somehow over and again i get this question raised in my head today. Why ? I don't know. 

   I remember me saying to a friend one day, "I want to live my life. Not just breathe". When i said that line i knew i have a purpose for which i am living. But what purpose was I talking about i did not know. Nor do i know now. Shame on me is it ? 

    What's purpose of our living ? Does anybody know ?  

 

     Could i say " Life is all about finding our purpose to live and then living for the purpose " ?

      As a first step I sat and started thinking what could be the purpose for which i am living ?  

      We all live to die one day. In between our birth and death what is it we need to achieve?  I thought the answer to this question would be the purpose of my life. But again is purpose a measurable quantity which i could term as achievement ? I do not think so. 

      So shouldn't my first question be to ask, in what terms could purpose of life be defined ? 

      Few people say we all die when the purpose for us to live is over. So the child which died in its young age what was it's purpose ? What did it fulfill or achieve in life which till date i never did ? That makes me believe may be we are all here for a unique purpose. The whole life is about finding the purpose and living it.  Now as i do not know the purpose of my life i do not know if i am living it. This makes me feel like a man who runs on the road aimlessly not knowing where to go.  If the man does not make up his mind where he needs to go sooner or later his energy level would start diminishing. The man would start walking then crawling then one day he would become immobile and die. But the place where he died was it the destination he was heading ?  Luckily may be. But who is to decide?

   Now I think shouldn't my first question be if I ever think I found a purpose of my life, how would i come to know whatever i discovered was the purpose ? Who would let me know ? 

     The answer to this question is fairly simple may be. It is our own soul . The soul to which we all obey. We all know it always guides us and lets us know its thought for every action of ours.  This thought would later impact on our future actions. We filter the behavior which our soul did not accept. We repeat the ones it encouraged, as well improvise. Isn't it not?  

   So this makes me ask a question, do we have a single purpose or various ones which are interrelated ?

    The answer to this question was given by my heart like this.  A musician. His purpose towards music is a never ending process of searching for tunes which he feels is melodious. When he finds one which he likes he improvises on it and a new tune would come alive. So there cannot be just one tune a musician would like.  Would a day come when he could say he has found all and there is no more he could find and no more he could improvise on ?. I would say "No". Am i not right in saying so?  So isn't that the same with our purpose of life ?  

    We perform a action in our life. Our soul responds. Based on the response we improvise. And this process is never ending one and it ends abruptly when we die.  In the meanwhile as the musician as provided new tunes we would have shown new ways to behave and live. As a new musician hears the old music and creates his own, people who know us would immitate our actions.  So isn't our purpose is to add good thoughts , behavior, feelings and so on into this world ? So isn't all our purpose the same ? 

   But contradicting my mind says " Music to one may be noise to another " :)