Saturday, January 22, 2005

THE PURPOSE

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A question has always been hovering in my mind that "What is the purpose of all this chaos around me?" I see people running blindly to achieve something which they don't posses right now. If they get that they start running for the other, so it has just become a never ending wild goose chase. Now some of the, what so called progressive people, will start questioning my vary concept and definitely the only counter view they can produce is that this helps the human being in achieving the progress. I know I am trying to prove a point which is definitely difficult one to assimilate but still the fact remains that progress is a relative term. I want to ask what is the perception of progress? Is there any definite answers like everybody having car or may be every body having all the materialistic things required to lead a comfortable life. But definitely this not the complete answer.What is the use of having all that stuff if we are mantally unsatisfied and unable to use that? This is the case for every contestant of this wild goose chase contest. Through out their life they think that if they will have this thing they will be happy but after some time they realize that they could achieve that thing but still couldn't get that happiness because now they need the other thing.

If having materialistic things was the last thing that could give happiness than our forefathers wouldn't have spend a moment in their life happily.Take for example someone may think that having a Merc or having a big banglow will give him great happiness but this is not the case because our forefathers didn't have all these things but still they were happy reason being that they didn't know what is a Car or even they didn't know what is fan. So the point is that materialistic things can't be a scale of happiness, its just that they are capable of making you unhappy if you keep thinking about them all the day. So the message I want to give is, not that we should give up working harld to achieve all those materialistic things, but instead i suggest that we should realize that these things are need for human being but not the gateway to happiness. So if we can get all those things we should feel happy but we should not regret if we don't have them.