The Purpose

What is the purpose of everything? I think it's the one question we were all born to try and answer, and we all do answer it in our own way. It's impossible to say with any certainty what the purpose of life is. But it's not hard to find out what your own purpose is. Quite easy be comparison.

For starters, I tried to figure out what the purpose of a few daily thing are. Like this blog. I'm sure some of you out there are asking, with sarcasm, yes Andrew, what IS the purpose of this blog? And I'll admit it, I have been skirting that question. I know I'm only ten posts into this blog, and less than a month since it began, but I plan to keep this thing going for quite awhile.

The purpose of this blog is to relay what I think of everyday life and, tell you my interpretation of events, and express myself through words, something I happen to really enjoy. Some people have told me I'm a good writer, I've told people they're great writers, I have friends who are great singers, friends who can take apart a computer and put it back together in minutes, friends who are black belts, friends who are white belts, and friends who seem to have it all together. So when they tell me I'm a good writer, I think just how much that compliment means coming from people like them.

I enjoy writing, I enjoy talking, I enjoy music, and mostly, life in general. This blog is meant to help me enjoy life more. But what does it do for you? I can't tell you that, but I can sure tell you what I hope it does for you. I hope you read the things I write in this blog, think about it, and use my opinion on things to change and influence the way you think. Not controlling your mind. Expanding the way you think. Sounds condescending? Not at all. I know from reading and listening to other people, I have learned far more than I could ever figure out by myself. We're humans, all of us, we should work together. If everyone in the world thought about the same thing at the same time for one hour, non stop, what sort of changes would take place? The world wouldn't be the same, would never be the same.

You have those people who say the above is not the way we were developed. We are just like other animals, and simply live to survive, relying on instinct and knowledge to quide us through our lives without dying. We are simply the top of the food chain, the deluxe supreme of animals and beasts, we hit the genetic lottery and came out upright, talking, talking, and with McDonalds. Pretty lucky eh?

Let me say right off the bat that I don't believe in creationism. It's stupid. Nine straight years of Sunday school did nothing to persuade me otherwise. I believe in god, but the god I believe in isn't a man or woman, and loves us, doesn't hate us. I also believe that god doesn't care if you capitalize his first name, and was more concerned about the people who lost family members in every war that has ever happened than concerned about how big or how powerful the army was the caused the destruction.

However, we have determined that we are one of the very few organisms that are "sentient" or self aware. We realize that one day we'll die, and so we try to reassure ourselves our entire lives. So, really, who is luckier? We've been given the incredible gift on sentience, thought, and interpretation of our natural world on a level far superior, in our opinion, to any creature on earth, and how do we use it? We kill each other regularly, enslave others, toxify the world, and think about the short term. You could visit any hippie/peace protestor/tree hugger website to hear the full list; it's not my point. My point is that, since we seem to be making such a big mess of everything, who is luckier? The man who knows he will die someday and tries his best to forget about it, burying himself in material things, or the animal who is carefree and until it's dying breath lives to live.

So what is the purpose of this blog? The purpose is not to "enlighten" you or to cause an instant awareness and immediate understanding of the world around you. No one is perfect, but that doesn't mean we should resign ourselves to being "just human".