What should be our goal in life?
If you ask me, there is no definite answer to this question, but one thing is clear, it must be worth striving for . .
But I looked at lives of people around me, passing through various phases of life, and observed their patterns of living. I tried to seep into various lives to decide on what to go for.
I have seen, for at least 99% of population, life is like a routine, to be living again and again. A scientist becomes obsessed with his research papers, and how to survive securely in the race of papers, an artist becomes obsessed with his variation of artwork, worrying about survival,earning, exhibitions, etc. The worse are the secure job kind of people, who never dare to do something different, dare to face some disturbances in life. the addicted, the pot diggers, etc are actually consequences of this deep inner conflict, otherwise why would you need some break, some addiction, if your pursuit itself is so much curious and fundamental thing.
In my life the worst experience in life was of company, better than that is IISc, more better my experiences with music, video editing, but the best was when I question the very fundamentals be it by science or by arts or simply deep observation in silence before a storm .
99% population strives for survivalist dominance and security, they only care about opinions, secure life, dominance in terms of money and control in terms of power, but these are all virtual situations created by human beings.
So because of this kind of approach about stability, power, they shrink their level of perception. There is a great story about one of the student of J.C. Bose(father of wireless communication, unison theory,plant researcher) because he thought, I got to earn money, I got to become a famous buisnessmen because he is very creative. but JC Bose , asked him after 2 years, how he was feeling, he told, "I feels terrible" and rightly so, because when you live upto someone's expectation, and leave something which you value, you suffer.
It is only <1% population, which dares to keep aside these issues, and give their lives away for answer of fundamental questions like time, life, death, space, perceptions, the very process of things happening. These people strive for fundamental dominance structure. To have a better perception and experience of life. Albert Einstein was one of them, he tried to address fundamental question, Like him, many impressionist artists, social scientists like Jean Piaget, Jiddu Krishnamurthy,etc tried to address it,Indian music, dance, various forms of martial arts, economists like John Nash and game theory, etc everything has been specifically been designed to enhance level of perception of life, by specific ways, but poor us, we make ourselves so much of a closed book possibility.
Problem is, we think like 99% that survivalistic dominance is actual way, blindly living in situations. Very few try to give a way to inquisitive side, a fundamental side of human, which tries to answer simple but profound questions which have nothing to do with survival, (which even dog's and cat's can do) but it has everything to do with how deeply you are percieving things, trying to dig further at more subtler question.
This is why we love physics initially, because it tries to shake and work at fundamentals, this is why artists love gestalt principles, because they shake the fundamentals of perception and are not about 200$ loss or profit or getting fired. Their life is not that Messed up in survival. . . . But then, our motivation is influenced by how you are appreciated by someone, how society accepts you and all that. . . .
Don't fall in this trap, because in this short life, it is important to work for something, worth striving not for xyz, but for you common sensically. . . :)
