Life
A funny concept, isn’t it?
Coming to think of it, we’re just flesh and bones, walking on a rock that’s floating in the middle of nowhere.
I’ve found myself thinking over and over on why there is an Earth ( mostly before exams ), what the purpose of life is and all of it.
After questioning myself a million times and reading books and articles on this I’ve found an answer that convinces me, to an extent.
This post is basically a rant about this discovery.
Why should we care?
By hook or crook, one sperm met the ovum of its life ( they have a better love story than most of us ), and now you’re here. This brings you into quite a tuft of a situation, you gotta live it boo!
And that’s the question. Why should I live? What’s the purpose of life? Why do I really need to be alive at this moment?
Electricity
What the heck does electricity have to do with this?
Well, there’s quite some similarity between electricity and the soul ( or whatever it is that you call which is absent in a carcass and present in a living body ).
Before we delve into that..
What the heck is a Soul?
Take for example a car. It’s an expensive Merc. You’ve filled it with fuel. Now you switch it on and it revs, and it’s everything you imagined it would be.
Now analyze what it is that happens inside a car. Assuming it’s all mechanical inside, there’s a spark, and the fuel does what it’s best at — it combusts. This combustion creates energy and that runs the car.
Now notice the energy part. It’s technically not the fuel that runs the car, it’s the energy, and the technology inside that knows what to do with this heat, that runs the car.
And this energy part is what the soul is. Or at least in my opinion.
So what does it have to do with Electricity?
Think of your house. There might be a TV that works with electricity. There are going to be a couple of lights, fans and/or air-conditioning, and a lot more appliances that works on electricity.
Think, the electricity that flows into each of these appliances are exactly the same. Just that the way each appliance uses it changes, and that has made all the difference (points for everyone who got the Robert Frost reference).
Well, now think of the soul to be analogous to this electricity, and each living being to be analogous to the appliance. We can use the this energy in any way. We can use our “souls” to be a farmer or a programmer!
But the question isn’t answered yet!
Why on Earth are we still alive?
Yeah! Exactly! We have appliances for “our” need. Are we of use to some greater alien specie?
Well, I don’t really know the answer to that ( the less satisfying part ), but hear me out.
Reasoning == Questioning
The best way to make sense of something is to question every aspect of it. So -
- What’s the use of electricity if it doesn’t really flow through any appliance?
- How do we even tap electricity without any technology?
- Is it just enough for energy to be in our surrounding? There should be some mechanism by which we should be able to convert all of that into forms that are useful to us. How can we do this without any, absolutely no technology?
Well the answers to these questions is what I see as the purpose of life.
The Answer
Energy in its original form is just existing. It does nothing. Absolutely nothing useful.
The Universe is so beautifully made that anything that stays still for a while starts hyperventilating ( very similar to a woman in her period ) and ends up disrupting its own balance. This hyperventilation in science is called Entropy. To put it precisely — Entropy is constantly changing in the environment because of which there is nothing that is constant. Ever.
Similarly, so as to prevent this energy, that is cosmos, from hyperventilating and disrupting into something that’s tragic, it is directed ( the next obnoxiously unsatisfying part ) into something that is useful, that calms down its state of existence — LIFE. Meaning, the energy of the universe is split into minuscules and put into each of us — The Soul! Viola — we’re all the SAME!
So basically, what flows through us all is a stream of energy that is so erratic and irrational, and the purpose of life is to streamline it!
Every single thing that we do directly affects this energy. It either gets influenced positively, or negatively.
Bonus
Think of it, this complies with the logic of Karma too! Imagine you’ve done one too many actions that negatively impact your soul, then if in case rebirth is true, you’ll be born with a soul that’s a little too negative — and guess what? this negativity only makes it welcoming for more negativity in life!
But then, why a body?
Thinking and acting are two bodily functions, the result of which affects the soul. The soul as such has no influence on the functions.
What the soul does is, it keeps you alive + it attracts similar energy around you. If you have a positively inclined soul, or you’ve done actions that impacted your soul positively, you attract such. Vice versa for negative.
The body enables you to actually think and act in such a way that it affects your soul, and the purpose of life is to be able to channelize your soul, much similar to that device that channelizes the AC current to a much more easily store-able, and stable DC current.
Pointers to take away -
- Souls are energies that run us
- Living beings hone a soul
- Purpose of life is to mold this energy that is soul to something that is more easily store-able by the universe, without any abrupt explosions.
- Living beings are analogous to the device that converts AC current to a much easily store-able, and less dangerous DC current.
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