Pointless Everything

"Purpose! Need! Ambition! Focus! Plan!" People seem to be going hoarse in trying to drill this wannabe motto slogans into your head. They're so focused on their need to plan their purpose in life to achieve all of their ambitions, that somewhere in the chaos, life slips away. Every 'motto' in life takes on new definitions at each step till the point arrives when one just does not remember the reason one started out on this path in the first place! Sigh, and to these wayward, ambitious lot, I'd like to say, "Breathe! Breathe! Breathe!"

It's good to have a destination when setting out on a journey especially if it's touted to be a long, arduous one. But focus on the destination surpassing levels so as to not allow you to admire the journey? Definitely not ideal! On the flip side, meandering aimlessly through thoughtless roads in search for nothing in particular - romantic notion! But meandering so far that one loses all sight of reality? Positively scary! So where DOES one draw the distinguishing line between life and dreams? Between illusions and reality? Between sentiment and practicality?

But then, that IS the point! There is no line to be drawn, no frameworks to be set in life! One may be born to serve a predetermined purpose (yet to verify this statement... my appointment with God is not for a long time yet) but one is definitely not supposed to open his eyes to the world knowing fully well what he must accomplish! There are no hard do's and don'ts in life! There is no reason why a man hell bent on becoming a doctor to save lives cannot change his mind and decide to be a butcher instead! There is no reason why a man heretofore unfaithful in love cannot grow to be the most loyal husband to his third wife! There is absolutely no reason to anything in life! And conversely, there is an underlying purpose to everything in life! It just is not ours to define! Reality is but an illusion we create!

In our incessant need to prove the might of our minds, we often forget the genius of simplicity! That maybe life is not designed to be this complicated after all! We don't need to have a plan for everything in life! Even if we do, it is absolutely natural for it to not work out! There is abundant joy waiting to be unraveled at every step we take... It is but a question of spotting it right! Of clearing our vision of the clouds of doubts, greed and rigidity. Of letting ourselves actually believing in those fairy tales from our school books! Believing that our lives could just be touched with magic!

And with this I bid adieu to y'all to return to bed to dream of brownies baking in the oven, old friends calling to catch up, a promising new year lining up ahead... Oh wait, that is my actual life! :)

Trapped with but encircling gloom

Voice caught, no shout to cry,

Every last ray seems to want to run

Away, oh so fast they fly!

Arms flail about in desperate need

To find that hand to pull through

The mind plays tricks and so you hope

That some shadow of the past will show

Yet time ticks by and the darkness grows

Even the mind numbs as truth prevails

Arms fall back and shoulders sag

And you prepare to journey on the next trail

But before you set foot on paths anew

You vow to quell all hope in you

For it is that which lead you here

And blinded you with things seeming dear