The Fantasy of Ultimate Purpose
I feeling contemplative and introspective. (Part 2)
I like this video. No, freaking love this video.
If you make to the end, my hats off to you. What do think of it? No, really. I’m on this kick to find your and my “purpose of life”. This guide shows me the way.
(My aphasia, and just want to have it out there. It is that incredible. Well, I think is it.)
Here are the highlights…
Stories such as these that do add something worth fantasing about. They do contain something fundamental that we are lacking. And that is a…
Clear Sense of Purpose.
“Striving to find a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man.”
[Various tropes the author describes.]
- Prepare for Nightfall.
- The Survival
- The Zombie Apocalypse
- The Lonely Detective
- Will to Meaning
- Existential Vacuum (A feeling of Meaninglessness)
Higher Purpose
It also suggests our longer for ultimate purposes, for the world to have tangible deeper meaning.
They still exist within a universe that carries a self-transcending significance.
Which bring us much closer to a reflection of our actual reality.
For in the real world, we aren’t born with with an innate purpose, and there is creator providing us with one, at least not one that we know of.
Even if there is such a thing as ultimate purpose in our universe, it is inaccessible to us.
Anything that would give us that feeling of ultimate purpose.
Is to take up our personal responsibility and decide for ourselves what our purpose is.
“Not everything, not yet.” – Batman
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
We need to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being question by life – daily and hourly.
Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and right conduct.
Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to problems and to fulfill the task which constantly sets for each individual.” – Viktor Frankl
So what actual lessons can we find in all their stories when it comes to finding real purposes in our lives?
How can we not only enjoy there’s fiction worlds, but also find inspiration in them?
Viktor Frankl explains how this can be done by finding or creating a task to fulfill; by experiencing beauty, by finding someone to love; (in “the Grey”) by showing courage in the face of unavoidable suffering.
Future: Finding a Purpose
The first and most obvious point is that it is important to transcend our own being, to find purpose in a cause that is greater than ourselves.
Secondly, we must acknowledge that the meaning of our lives is the changing. It is not found in one singular purpose.
Our purpose may not always be clear, but because it’s bound by our own free will and the limitlessness of our creativity and inspiration, the meaning of our lives is an unconditional one…
and thus it never ceases to be.
Present
Claire reminded me of something I forgot.
Claire, 18 years old. She had been given 1 years to live.
She reminds me, it not how you spend your time, it’s the meaning you give it.
“Living the life that we are proud of. That is something we change actually control.”
Claire’s purpose (and my purpose too. Wait-a-minute, we have purpose too!):
“I want them to have a moment of clarity.
Realize that they actually have power in their happiness. In the ways their life goes and whether their happy or not.”
I think I’m just a confused as everyone else on how to make our lives a piece of art. I know that part of the joy is simply trying.
You are never going to be happy with what you get, unless you are happy with what you have. That what you have do with your life. You have look at all of it. All of the pain, all of loneliness, all of the beauty, all of the friendship, family, all of the sickness and health…
“Let it out in front of you, and say, Ok. This is what I have. It’s all wonderful and what can I make with it.”
Really. What is what drive us? In terms of startups, entrepreneurship, conglomerates, academia, government, sitting a beach, mountainside, sitting bench in the city and 10 years, 50+ years…
what makes us happy?
That’s what it is all about.
It’s the question we want answered, but we have no idea whether it be a work one, personal one or both.
I have one idea (Grit Unlimited, Legacy and Push the human condition FORWARD.), but
what is it for you?
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