it can be said that i am obsessed by purpose, i don't know if that's a good thing or if that's a bad thing. It's just that i hate wasting precious time if i can't see the purpose of something i am doing, most specially if i don't agree with the purpose. but of course i have learned to be more mellow about it, coz i now spend more time trying to discern things(the purpose) compared to when i was younger when i thought my intellect was KING!>;p you could say i was pretty judgmental then, i went with my initial knee-jerk intellectual reaction.. if my reason didn't agree with what i thought the purpose of a thing is.. i usually condemned it and left what that was disgustedly, and didn't care anymore for arguments to the contrary. i was a judgmental prick, that's why i missed a lot of worthwhile enterprises early in life, now i have learned to sloow down, sit back and to really consider, but only recently mind you^_^. that's why i started this blog only now(it all seemed so pointless/purposeless to me then. haha).
but there it is.. i still have to "get the point"^_^. that's why, when i heard of the book "the purpose driven life" and that people where so into it, recommending it left and right.. i kind of just grinned and shrugged.. isn't that supposed tobe always the case?? and i have a peeve about stating the obvious.. it gets my goat , so to speak^_^ bu t then again i should've been glad, since because of that book, a lot more people wer more aware of purpose.. parami na kami mamromroblema nito, ahahahahaha.
so there it is: purpose.or paraphrased: "what's the point?" this is so tied up with "being" thatyou just can't separate them.. purpose and being. you have to "be" first, to really discern your purpose.. and "being " means you got toget to know who, what you are..it is always a work in progress until you get that "assent" from within the core of your reason and being.. and then it is still a work in progress only more purposeful haha(see one of my first posts entitled Being)
And this is a brief discussion of my early journey in this(drumroll please).. i first asked:"who am i?" and when i thought about it, i could only say "i am me." which was too accurate and too absurd too since i will not really learn anything about me that way^_^ so i asked"what am I?" and then amazingly, pinalampas ko sarili ko and didnt answer"i am what i am!", consequently the answer was something that i could work with(haha!):"tao, ungas!" ayun. tao daw ako according to me, hehe,then ""tao?"ano yun?wat does that mean, really?" stupid questions, 'no?
actually it was great because now i knew wat i was not(hayup, halaman, diyos, etc)!so i really had something to start with in trying to discern purpose.. the next question was"so wat makesme a "tao"?(don't you just love the filipino language and its "non-sexism?haha, translate tao to english in that context^_^)and an obvious answer arose quite quickly:"nag-iisip ako"(paraphrase Descartes:"i think therefore i am tao!"hehe) and the conclusion I came up with wasn't too long in coming...
Shouldn't it be my first responsibility, knowing aught else but that: "i think, therefore i am tao", to develop my Reason?(what makes me tao) so that i can be onwards to being "truly " tao. after all if we don't try to realize our potentials we're better off not having existed at all.a lion must be a lion, a fish truly fish, and a tao truly human di ba? and that for me is what was meant in the exhortation:"Be true."
The following is a ym conv with my good friend melvs who commented early in this post of mine nyahaha, the conversation helped me expound more(you are in da spot melvs!!^_^:
Toby Melvin: labo pa din no?
Toby Melvin: hehe
jedi nikz: our purpose is to BE
jedi nikz: hehe
jedi nikz: watever THAT is
Toby Melvin: korek!
Toby Melvin: ahaha
Toby Melvin: pero dude, it is what you think it
Toby Melvin: is
Toby Melvin: and not what is given
Toby Melvin: kung sabihin nilang tae ang pupose mo, pare you won't believe them
Toby Melvin: pero if they say better shempre, you agree and you go for it
Toby Melvin: di ba?
Toby Melvin: hehe
Toby Melvin: or i may be wrong, what do i know
Toby Melvin: ahahaha
Toby Melvin:
jedi nikz: nah no one can tell you your purpose as an andvidual, You discern it
jedi nikz: but being something, some purposes are intrinsic to that being
jedi nikz: like us..
Toby Melvin: yan ang tamang word - intrinsic
jedi nikz: we are something, tao tayo
jedi nikz: so being tao, it is intinsic that our purpose is to realizethat being.. be truly tao di ba?
Toby Melvin: tama dude
Toby Melvin: yan din yung sinasabi ko e
Toby Melvin: ahahaha
jedi nikz: tama ba conclusion ko? does you reason assent to that conclusion?
Toby Melvin: yan din yung sinasabi ko eh
jedi nikz: post iko tong conversation natin dun haha
Toby Melvin: i mean yan gdin yung thought ko
Toby Melvin: go ahead dude
4 comments:
Purpose, what is it?
is it like Matix?
pupose always result in cause and effect. Once you know your purpose you would make an action to fulfill it (cause) and it will result into something (effect) that may or may not be to your liking.
is it like L5R?
pupose is once per turn (unless if your purpose is to make an opne action)
is it like DotA?
dota has no purpose. i honestly think it to be that way. it is good for quality time with friends.
is it like surfing the net?
purpose is searching. seaching til you find an answer that you think is the one.
All in all, prupose is how you percieve it to be. Most often than one person think, their pupose is right infront of them but they don't want to pursue it because it is not how they want it to be.
Our purpose is not how we learn what it is or even if we get to know what it is. It is how you think it will be. When one project thoughts and how they think once situation should be, it is by their gauging that standardizes their prupose.
Simple lang yan dude, eveyone's purpose is like what purpose is projected in the matrix. It is in the mind that creates purpose. Purpose ine never given, it is made. hehe..
my 2 cents
as i said individual purpose, is for that individual to discern/perceive. you can't get that from someon/somewere else..but as beings, or as part of something-- there is purpose in that too.. yng sinasabi kong "intrinsic purpose bcoz you are that(in this case:human/tao)shall we say.. minimum purpose?aahahahaha
an melvs.. i beg to disagree may purpose ang Dota:to de-stressand to bond na inde inuman ang gawin hahahaha!!
ndi ba lahat me purpose naman?:P sabi ko magtatanong na lang ako. haha.
tingnn mo, kahit DOTA meron... panu pa ung mga ibang bagay. :P
exactly, yumz.
everything has a purpose. and since we are uniqurly human, and can do something about it(realize a purpose/ reject a purpose).. isn't it very important then to actually try very hard what purposes we are realizing or rejecting?
for example.. if we convince ourselves that as humans our purpose in this life is to be happy, it actually presents a lot of repercussions.. (eg: be happy to the exclusion of everyone else's happiness?- that's obviously not livable especially if everybody adopts that.. what constitutes"being happy?" hahaha and so it develops.. not so simple ano.. but we can simplify actually.. just "be" that's livable hahahaha and very loaded.. it will define your worldview if you're brave enough to follow the thought through..
g'day!!
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