The Purpose of Life

"You are already that which you seek"

What is that make us an individual?, Is it our consciousness? perhaps our flesh. Can i be what i am without my body? Can i live inside another person?. The Life seems like a miracle. All the billion cells  working together just for you and me to see another daylight. That's shows how important our lives are. There should be a reason for our existence, don't you think? If yes, What is the purpose of Life?

"The answers you seek lies within you"

Life grows against all hostile conditions. It even finds a way to survive in the hot and the cold conditions. Let's look inside our-self to see what is that make us grow. We were all once a single cell. A single cell called zygote. The zygote contains something called genetic code which directs to create us. The genetic code indeed comes from our parents. But it is wonder of nature that none of the single parent contains that same genetic code. The very first time that genetic code formed is when the fertilization occur. At the very own moment of fertilization your biology was decided, not a moment after and not a moment before. If any of the factors changed ,time, environment anything we would not be here. I find it really irritating to think about it. The very knowledge that my own existence was just an unpredictable occurrence haunts me. Anyway everything happened in accordance so that I have lived to write  and you are here to read this article, that's all matters for now.

The genetic code is written using 4 letters, 4 different nucleotides in DNA. The difference between you and me is less than 1% in the total genetic code. A gene is a small section of that DNA that contains the instruction for a synthesis of a specific molecule such as a protein. There are about 30,000 genes in a human and every humans does not possess the same genes also.The genes in your body comes from your parents and  which they receive from their parents, that is your grandparents. In this way we can maybe go all the way to the first life formed, or maybe not, the genes may have been lost somewhere. If not the life that first formed is carried on through us.

The very first life a cell, maybe not even a cell a much tinier unit which was capable of replicating itself would have been occurred naturally in the hot blitz earth. This life which needs energy to survive and replicate would have absorbed energy and then populate. The energy  resources then started to dissipate. There arises the need for natural selection. In an environment with unlimited resources Everything would have survived in mutual harmony, but that's not the case. The various cells who had adopted the desirable strategies survived, others perished along with it the gene it contained. Some where on the time scale genes would have combinedto build survival machines and this have lead to complex life on Earth . Gradually more perfect machines came into existence, with more capabilities for the genes to survive. We call such such survival machines species.One such particular species attained the capability to  think, make weapons, socialize, cultivate, create shelters, communicate, and even create machines, and that species is HUMAN, a very good survival machine indeed.

"The truth will set you free but first it will piss you off"

The life as meaningless as it seems is actually meaningless. The reason why we are here is because the genes in our parents required another survival machine since their current one was getting weak. One day we all will become that weak old survival machine then the genes will try to live through our children.  Just like we say about the machines we create, don't feel sentimental about it its made for the welfare of the people. One day when we feel that the machines are no longer useful we throw it away. Just like that all the living things in the world will get used up and thrown away. In machines we can sometimes if required save its memory. But in our case whatever we do, no part of your consciousness, the things you have seen, knowledge you have acquired gets transferred to the kids genetically, only half of your genes you have received when you were conceived. Your task does not end there even , you have to foster the next generation. What the new hatchling first does is, it starts crying , cries unless it is feed. It demands attention, what would happen otherwise, the cry would be so high that the predators will get near. Crying is not so cute after all its a threatening, Either you give me food or get ready to die on the predators hand. You cant run away either because you have particular genes that makes you care more about the kids, sometimes even risking your own life, just like a monkey heroically jumping in front of predators to rescue its kids.

"Life is an endless journey towards endless roads"

There is character called Naaranathu pranthan in Malayalam folk tales. He is a mentally retarded character who used to push the stones up the mountain and enjoy looking at  rolling it down. My teacher once told me that he was trying to prove that everyone is doing the same thing every single day. We climb the mountains just to descend. We find new problems so that we can solve it. The genes would have laughed at our actions but  it does not have any eye to see, brain to think and face to laugh. We have consciousness, but we do not have the sole control over it. The many control is handover to the brain as part of the evolution. Unlike genes which has programmed codes, brains are much more dynamic to the outside situation. Its very use is survival advantage , genes doesn't care what you do with brain, its a free gift and This brain is what made us different from all other animals.We have used  this consciousness to become what we are today.

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows"

Considering the time scale of life on earth our life is very short. It is also insignificant,  Nothing would have happened if you or me did not exist.  No one how high his position is, how much he has achieved was ever immortal. Everything that lived will perish,  memories of us will live for sometimes, then it will also go away. The world is not made for us, We have to let go of  feeling of need to be important in life. How difficult would it have been to accept the fact that Earth is revolving around Sun?, To accept that Earth is not the center of universe that we are not the center of everything.

We are simply a survival machine for our genes. We are not the point of concern, its the gene inside every one of us for which we are surviving everyday. All we have is our consciousness that enable us to find different things to get concerned with enjoy about. The life is about using that slight advantage of processing a consciousness to  having moments in life that we can cherish upon , happiness, sadness. One thing  life should not be  about is success, failures,  right thing or wrong thing. There is nothing such as absolutely right or wrong, neither anyone can claim i am successful. No ones life is any better than yours, or more important than yours, regardless of what anyone have done in the past, what anyone have planned for the future everyone is going to die. Its a fact, let's the fact sink in.

"You are already that which you seek"

We may be a mere survival machine , yet between birth and death we exist. Let the past not haunt you , let the future not worry you , Enjoy the present.