Questioning the purpose of life

I guess I have taken a long break from blogging. Quite long that some of my blog’s reader might have drawn conclusion of my losing interest in blogging. It wasn’t intentional but my busy schedule barred me from doing so. Today I forced myself a time and thought of writing what has bothered me for quite a long time.

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Did you ever ask yourself, what is the purpose of life? Why am I born? for what? Such are the questions capable of making you feel dumb headed animals. For the past few years these questions have been and still troubling me.

Why am I born? The biological answer is to reproduce!!! The answer from the religious perspective will be to help all sentient beings liberate!!! From parents’ perspective, they needed a child to help them during their old age, as they would prefer to live with their children rather than “old aged home” before they breathe their last. If you ask anyone, you would land up coming across countless answers but nothing definite and convincing.

As for me, I don’t have any answers to that and the best way I could answer is, scratch my head and move ahead. May be there is no answer to that, unless some philosopher ponders over it and come out with consensual answer. But, their (Philosophers’) answer may go wrong for religious people, it may go wrong for easy going people.

May be, the question would remain confusing for infinite times to come or may be the purpose of life is to, “to confuse ourselves”. May be it is time for me to put an end to the question and work on something productive before it drives me in-sane.

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