Some questions are best unanswered..

Kanishka Kumar is studying medicine.This being the prefinal yr of his MBBS degree.He has not just been a great buddy since school days but also a person with great wisdom and my all time spiritual adviser(...am i right Kanishka?).As ever he has helped to resolve another query that hassles me every now and then.I feel its not just for me but many like me who waste the precious moments of life in a futile quest.So...over to you Kanishka...


I think i can answer some of the questions relating to our purpose in life.
Why do we make such a fuss of things and work so hard if all one has to do in this world is to live a routine life, procreate and go to hell?
So here i go.........
These are questions which have the following characteristics:

a) They come to you when you are just past your adolescent age and into young adulthood because you have somewhat formed an identity of yourself. It is then that you try coming out of your ego and try connecting with the world. It is then that you try and fit your established sense of self with the world.
In a word you try and find the meaning and purpose of your life on this planet.

b)These questions come to most of us but we ignore them in pursuit of more pleasurable things in life like friends, frolic , fun and like. Therefore i believe they come back to haunt when one is:
1) alone
2) heart broken
3) pissed off with his life
4) looking for more avenues and meaning of life

c)Youth is the time when these questions are more prominent because:
1) our spirits are high
2) not burdened by the chores life brings with it
3) there is fresh enthusiasm and belief of doing exemplary things and turning the world on its head.
4) one believes that the world should cry, laugh, enjoy and live with us.

d) They come to people of two strata:
1) those who are good at there work and well placed in life as they tend to find more meaning in life and analyze things to a greater extent.
2) those who are not so successful. They try and locate a reason in the external environment for their failure or try and rationalize that the aim they were striving for was immaterial.

let me tell you what i believe.....
I have come across these questions and have had some memorable experiences in looking for the answers.Sometime back i found them.

These are the questions that are the whole crux of our religions, spirituality and search for the knowledge that great people have spent years and years on finding. They have not done so after a lifetime of dedicated efforts.

It is an enigma as to why do we live the way we do??
To tell the truth i have stopped asking myself these questions.
But i have certain tools which help me and can help you tackle the doubts.
first i believe the answers are not attainable with such ease.These questions should be answered rhetorically.
Blast off questions like," can you imagine the universe without human beings?", "why is that some people have all the good things in life and some none?", "why do wrongs get punished late?","why do we love?","why is sex such an urge?" etc

It will make the person asking the questions feel better as he then finds one more confused person or rather one more "human being."

It also depends on your present state of mind. If you like,these discussions can go on and on.If not,you can label the person as weird.
As to the answer i believe one has to reconcile to the fact that they are there but they need one hell of a search.

On a personal level i now just live and try understanding life in bits and pieces.
deep down we all know our purposes and life will take us there if we have our basics right.

Remember the heart is on the left side but is always right!

One should never get overwhelmed by the thought and look for reasons for everything. they are so many things in this world which cannot be explained.
Come to think of it ,ones life, joys , sorrows, memories, the world, humanity and everything is miniscule when we take the scale of the universe.It is just a blip in eternity. It may be a part of a much larger canvas.

So enjoy yourself and live life the way it is!