Someone sad asks why me? Software professional asks “why am I doing this?” A philosopher asks “why do we live?” but one that that is for sure is that everyone asks why in one form or the other.
Here all why’s will not be answered but we discuss the concept of “why” and its significance.
Why is “why” so widespread and that makes it another why?
Anyways let’s get started.
Most of the questions of why are centered about you. For example: why am I doing this? Why should this happen to me? Why didn’t I pass? Why can’t I do that? Why can’t I get what I want? One thing that we can probably derive from here is that why is always associated with an action. English language itself puts why into the category of adverbs, i.e. something that defines the nature of the action. That action is some purpose. Who needs the purpose? Every one of us. Isn’t it?
The I inside me is the ego and for its satisfaction for it to gain importance it needs to have a purpose. The moment you are without a purpose the ego starts to feel uncomfortable. It starts raising the question why? So human mind questions and human mind answers and keeps on fulfilling the ego. For ego it is very important that there is purpose and so it keeps you into the vicious circle of questioning “why” at every step.
Existence itself is non purposive. We define living being as somebody that has the capacity to produce more of its own kind, trying to give purpose to existence, consider the paradox of what came first into existence was it the tree or the seed? Answer is not available because existence is non purposive. It does not need a purpose to exist. It has always been there. It’s the ego which wants the purpose and creates the question why?
Why is significant only when there is a beginning and an end. And considering living things to be the part of the entirety ever since “why” has no meaning in their life. In all the living things its only humans that ask this question and he is the only one that is unhappy. There is no purpose in existence, only your ego needs a reason for existence not you.
3 comments:
"Understanding that ego and existence are different and separating the two" - a simple idea difficult to imbibe!!!
This is among your best writings. I loved reading it. Well done!
"In all the living things its only humans that ask this question and he is the only one that is unhappy"
But don't you think if humans never asked this question would they have made any scientific progress.when a scinetist get the answer of "Why" I think they are the most happy person's around :)
neways gr8 blog dude
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