the "purpose" of life...

In this booming 10%-growth-rate economy we have necessary skills and necessary equipment to make our life easy, secure and comfortable. The civilization has reached the point where we can afford the luxury of asking ourselves the question – ‘What is the meaning of life? What is the purpose of life?’ Without today’s technology, today’s social structure and man’s interdependency, we wouldn’t have dared ask such questions.

Technically “purpose” in its most general sense is the anticipated aim which guides action. (from Wikipedia)

Some centuries ago, when survival was rare and difficult, ‘survival’ was the purpose of human life. To keep the species alive and to stay alive was the sole purpose of the homosapiens. That was a challenge which only a few could outrun. But then slowly with increasing social dependency and interdependency, the survival didn’t remain a challenge anymore and so the purpose of life had to be rewritten.

This leads us to an inference that - which challenges us or threatens our existence, becomes our purpose. Imagine yourself stuck alone in the middle of a fierce jungle and the night is about to fall (I am asking you to imagine this out of my own experience) and you don’t know whether you are approaching your end or your home. You will forget everything and put all your energy to get out of the fear and darkness. That desire of a safe warm place will become your very purpose of life because you cannot see your life beyond that darkness.

This leads us to another inference that – comfort brings boredom to life and subsequently incurable disease of mind-ness. Life having many comfortable alternatives stays distracted and unfocused and consequently stinking, sulking and searching mindlessly for the purposes of life.

Life doesn’t have any purpose as such. Purpose of life ultimately - is to stay alive, and keep on finding the "purpose"! And if you think more deeply you'll find that, our 'purpose' of life comes from our 'meaning' of life! What life means to us, guides our action and pushes us towards our so called (bloody) 'purpose'.