a different kind of yearning

different kind of yearning

Have you asked yourself what’s your purpose in life? Well, I guess everyone, even at one point, has thought about his or her purpose in is or her existence.

Well then have you actually known the answer to that previous question? If not, well you’re definitely not alone. I believe that the question I have raised a while ago belongs to one of the many rhetorical questions which we can’t always seem to answer even though it seems that we actually know the answer. Haha, magulo?

If you ask certain people that question, perhaps their answers will be lined with their field, e,g:

Baker – it is my purpose to bake and make delicious pastries, breads and cakes

Teacher – it is my purpose to educate others based on the knowledge I have acquired and at the same time learn from my students

Basketball player – it is my purpose to utilize my body by playing the sport I love and

Politician – it is my purpose to serve my country through acts of corruption and delinquency because through these, I am able to utilize maximum debit potential and thus lets us become more famous through out the world (haha, joke)

Eh, what if you are just a student? A student in a university filled with people who are indifferent with who you are and what you dream of? Will you say…..

Student – my purpose in life is to study and to finish studying so that when I grow up, I can help the people of the Philippines

Whoa? Realy huh? Meron bang magsasabi ng ganun? What then am I trying to say?
Sadly, I am trying to point out that in this age, people do inherit that absurd and humongous bit of apathy and discontent with regards to our surroundings and yes, even to our future.
Life is becoming monotonous.

See, when you were born, you are raised to a pattern just like everyone else’s! You grow up becoming someone. You believe that you have grow up pretty well because you have a title. You aim for something that perishes and that can make you happy only for some time.

We students study so we can acquire that education that will supposedly give us a good life. When we finish studying, we still have our dreams, we do not end up dreaming yet our dreams are always not what they seem.

When we say that our purpose in life is just to do this and that, don’t we thing that we are actually defeating the purpose of our existence? Don’t we think that we are being too little in terms of our outlook in life because in fact we can do a lot more things than being just stuck up in the title we have worked for?

Will we stop aiming for something higher when we have reached the peak of that we have set for ourselves? Will we settle for that purpose that we know we have imposed on our humanity? Come on.

Our country needs more people who will not just look to the usual petty dreams which came from our childhood. What it needs are purpose-driven people whose purposes are not self-centered and self-promulgating.

What it needs are people who see the blacks behind the whites and the spots when everything else seems so clear.

Imagine yourself seeing that vast white space. You think that that space is actually clean, healthy and nice. You focus too much on that space not knowing that when you enlarge your view and minimize the whole picture, that clean white area is actually the spot that destroys the supposedly whole bright yellow plane. This is so common. We always do these same things over and over again.

When then can we realize that we need to learn to develop compassion for others and yearn to do good in order to alleviate the condition of our society?

If again, by chance you ask yourself, what is your purpose in life, well, think again…. Is that really your only purpose??