{"id":3302,"date":"2010-07-28T09:28:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T03:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2021-01-16T12:12:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T06:42:42","slug":"purpose-purporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2010\/07\/28\/purpose-purporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Purpose Purporting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Purpose. I remember bringing this up earlier in ‘Coincide<\/a>‘ and mentioning that different life stages manage to give us short term purposes which leave little time for this line of questioning – a larger purpose of life itself.\u00a0 Like I told a friend recently, as though we took a life API and churned out all these fancy apps that now distract us from the purpose. What happens when you take those out of life? And when I say ‘those’, I also mean the alternate rat race<\/a> that we convince ourselves is not one.<\/p>\n

Turn out the light
\nAnd what are you left with?
\nOpen up my hands
\nAnd find out they’re empty.
\nPress my face to the ground
\nI’ve gotta find a reason.
\nJust scratching around
\nFor something to believe in:
\nSomething to believe in.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve wondered, even if one loves the work one does, does that become a purpose in itself? Is it really possible to be a karmayogi<\/em><\/a>. Is that what makes a Tendulkar or a Yesudas<\/a>? A larger sense of purpose? Doing the thing that they were meant to do? But even if that were so, what motivates them,\u00a0 for a karmayogi<\/em> should not feel any attachment towards the fruit of his actions. Indifference and detachment. There’s obviously a difference, yet to realise it fully.<\/p>\n

I have also wondered, actually worried, if its the lack of a larger purpose that drives one to (try to) leave a legacy? Creating something that will perhaps outlive us, in whatever scale ? Does the potential future of a creation give a sense of purpose to the present?<\/p>\n

On twitter, @Bhuto asked me<\/a> whether anyone had asked me if my handle meant “hand in the crypt” (manus being Latin for hand). No one had, the handle actually came into being because I couldn’t get the original spelling as an ICQ handle. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I answered that I’d always thought of a grimmer version – of this being an online crypt. I think I’ve mentioned this here earlier. So years down the line if someone discovers this, the lifestream will perhaps convey a life.<\/p>\n

You talk too much.
\nMaybe that’s your way
\nOf breaking up the silence
\nThat fills you up.
\nBut it doesn’t sound the same
\nWhen no one’s really listening<\/em><\/p>\n

If you think that’s weird, there’s actually a site that has the same idea – 1000 Memories<\/a>. Or how about a wireless headstone that will share its owner’s story with future generations<\/a>? \ud83d\ude42 Or there’s also the Howard Stark version (when he speaks to his son) ” What is, and always will be, my greatest creation, is you, Tony.” Yep, that’s quite a popular way too. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

For those who follow Malayalam movies, as is his wont these days, Mohanlal has already given the answers<\/a> to ‘purpose’, in Aaram Thampuran, though the question was put differently. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

But it is somehow difficult to even consider that life, in whatever way it is lived, is its own purpose.<\/p>\n

You’re spending all your time
\nCollecting and discovering
\nIt’s not enough.<\/em><\/p>\n

until next time, multipurpose lives?<\/p>\n

(Lyrics: Something to believe in, Aqualung<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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