Create your own meanings
I always prided myself over my philosophical bend of mind; I could muse about all these profound questions at a young age and try looking for solutions. However it soon became a problem when the flow of questions remained the same but the solutions stopped coming to me. However hard I thought, some questions were bigger than my tiny brain! As I delved into philosophy for the first time, I realized, neither Aristotle nor Socrates had answers so many times and it is the thoughts that change at the way how you perceive things and that, mostly you can create your custom made solutions, applicable solely to yourself.
That is how I solved my question of WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MY EXISTENCE?
I tried to answer it in the simplest form I can, because let’s admit, the answers to some of the most complicated questions could be the simplest ones. So for the above question, I simply drew the answer from Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. It’s a simple psychology concept which explains how our first priority should be psychological needs which includes food, shelter, air, water, sleep, clothing and reproduction. The second is safety needs having health, employment and other resources under its wing, the next is the feelings of love and belonging followed by a rather complex component of self-esteem and then self-actualization of reaching ones potential.
Spotting the basic needs and others after, I made the formula-
Life is all about sustaining you, living and creating.
Explanation:
Sustaining you
This is quite self-explanatory- get jobs at an appropriate age, irrespective of the fact whether it’s satisfying or not, if it isn’t as satisfactory, we have the other components to make up for it.
Living
The best living is when you are healthy, so first priority under living should be taking care of your health and then enjoying what life has to offer. Your sudden dance breakouts or bathroom singing can keep you covered in this department of living.
Creating
I strongly believe all of us are artists even if we do not have a visible exploitable skill. Some of us are naturally writers, poets, script writers or comedians, some create life and prove exemplary in parenting or some create some other kind of art but trust me, every action of human is closer to art than you think.
