One great question underlies our existence: Whats the purpose of our lives? Every individual, consciously or subconsciously, at certain stage of life, pauses to think about it......I have asked this one question to many people : strangers and friends, family and acquaintaces, siblings and foes, ignorant and wise and it all boils to one plain simple thing: happiness or contentment. Right from the moment of our birth, all we look is for happiness and contentment, no suffering at all....
I understand that the meaning of life lies in being happy or rather being content...but is being happy that simple? I once read an interesting story....an ancient philosopher alongwith several men and a pig were in a boat facing a storm at sea...while the men aboard displayed great anguish and concern and lost their manners bcoz of the fear, the pig showed superior indifference and serenity.....
The moral: Our conscience and intelligence are often a malediction. Our main source of unhappiness, grief and fear is our understanding of our weakness and misfortunes. In other words, our conscience destroys or diminishes life's meanings - satisfaction, happiness etc. Bible also points out to damned side of our memory and intelligence when it says : 'In much wisdom, there is much grief" and "One who increases knowledge increases sorrow"...
But can we deny our memories and our thoughts? Denying our thoughts would be equivalent to deny our dignity. As per Blaise Pascal, our dignity follows the diretion of our thought. So, isnt it better to be an unhappy and unsatisfied human being rather being a satisfied pig, better to be Socrates unsatisfied rather than a satisfied fool ?
Happiness is never constant, but getting used to being happy is easy. we have to look at things the positive way, a optimist will always find happiness in things that go right or wrong...
ReplyDeleteur words are good...:) keep them coming...!
Its better to be a satisfied pig cos as you can very well see how this intelligence and unsatisfied lust for worldly pleasures has spread as a plague on the planet diverting the course of the natural life form and the balance in nature.
ReplyDeletehi priya, some times, life takes us thru corners and turns, and in this winding stretch we just forget what makes us what we really are..
ReplyDeletehi, Priya, purpose of our lives is very simple as we grow up and get a understanding of life and way we want to live our life than and there we decide knowingly or unknowingly that how we will live our life.
ReplyDeletewant to create better world or wanna live for our self like pigs.
Better knowledge will let to better understanding of life both ways happy n sorrow.
we are human so its very important to gain knowledge to create difference between Human and Pigs
keep writing.