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I have been intending to do this for an aweful long time! And, voila! Here it is! My blog!

How we all yearn for things that are our own! My blog! My bike! My job.... MY LIFE... etc etc... Perhaps this is what the elders meant when they said that we are all attached to our material possessions! Should that be the case, I really wonder why they intended the statement in such a derogatory and demeaning way, in the sense that we should not have such attachments and obsessions!

But these are the things that I identify myself with! My alma mater, Don Bosco and Crescent Engg College; My music that ranges from anything from heavy metal to carnatic instrumentals; My bike, Bajaj Avenger 200 DTSi; My friends; and of course all those things that I hold near and dear that are probably superfluous to the topic of contemplation!

Assuming that it is possible to let go of all these things, then what does one identify oneself with?
What would one's purpose or need to exist be? If one's purpose in life to merely exist, isn't that a whole lot of waste of extensively buit up faculty! Evidently, this isn't the solution. It would be an incredibly simple solution, but as experience teaches you, the easy solution is usually not the right one!

Stephen Hawking says, "Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest." That would mean that the purpose to life is to identify the puspose of life. Now that means two things, one, no one has noticed that the greatest thinker of our living times has made a statement that is no less than a measly oxymoron and, two, we have identified the purpose of life! Now why exactly am I not satisfied? This too, is obviously not the right answer to the fine question!

Assuming that detaching from all material associations is the only way to achieving this purpose to life, also assuming that it is possible also assuming that one has achieved this purpose of life, THEN WHAT? I mean, what do you do after you have achieved the so-called purpose of life? What is the purpose of any further existence? Would you find another need/purpose to exist? In all logical probability, yes! Then, of what significance is the first purpose? Does it mean that there is more than one purpose to life?

Now that makes the idea of a single unified elusive "purpose of life" redundant and obsolete to me! What seems more logical is a subjective purpose to life! A purpose that is subjective, distinct, dynamic, self-centered (in one way or the other), and sensible only to the individual that the particular purpose is assigned to, rather assumed by!

Now what exactly was this post intended at? That is for me to know and you to find out! Ha ha ha!!!