In writing, and philosophy especially, there is a phrase that has always nearly driven me crazy….perhaps because it felt too personal. “State your purpose.” Tell us why you’re here. What your experience offers in authenticity and originality. Why why why why. Better put “How can we sell you, and if not, what can we make you think is your purpose?”
Perhaps, that’s why I always preferred Eastern Philosophy as much as purpose and Dosha exists in the world’s of meditational thought, is insomuch that simply being and doing what is natural is ALSO enough.
This means of progress programming that has been layered down on us from years of bullshit is simply that. Especially once you begin to find those successes. I have never focused on one thing as single tracked as I ever should have, and yet when my credentials come up in some circles it gives me a view into a world that doesn’t seem to involve me, although….I seem to fit right in according to many. I always feel like an estranged outsider watching things happen around me and learning information I was not particularly meant to know. Especially, not with this attitude.
So, when it comes to purpose I can simply state mine is to be where life takes me and when it takes and allows me there. If that’s even such a thing. I seem to end up Gonzo-in-the middle of things. Never quite fitting the mold. Negotiating my way through variables I don’t even discern as real life but instead, some common variable of capitalistic obsession that still makes no damn sense at all other than our need to survive. Of which is major to be sure, and I have essentially worked and toiled up until the last 25 weeks of my life. Herein given clarity I couldn’t expect when not, as to the avenues that raging, no….toiling in the words and songs of my mind seem to have illuminated.
Life continues still in its consistency and my other basic wants of survival and home. The instincts that exist deeper within each one of us for our own versions of comfort and community, but also those that ignited when presented with a choice in these matters alike. Somewhere, in all of this, is the inherent nature of existing with peace and balance within our own nature….
And living in our nature, is, if you ask me, our only true state of purpose.
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