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Purpose in Life vs Purpose of Life

By Sai Rohith Karanam

A gentle disclaimer, This post is only written on the basis of my thoughts and perspectives. It is not intended to hurt anyone's beliefs and traditions.

Okay, let's start.

We study at prestigious universities, we get the highest paying jobs, we get lots of money which is well enough to buy every single thing for our own comfort, our parents will be very proud of everything we have achieved and a lot more praise from the society. Are these enough for your life to be successful?

If you said no, you're on the right path.
But if you said yes, Think again!

Today we are in the year 2020, let's move a 1000 years back. Because you were born in the 20th or 21st century, you are struggling to become a doctor or an IT professional. What if you were born 1000 years ago? Well, you might opt fishing as your career, right?

What did this symbolise? 
Our purpose in life, which means it is the purpose which we should fulfil to make a living for our life keeps on varying. 
Today, you are struggling to become a doctor or an engineer, future generation kids may struggle to become something which we never thought of becoming. 

Unfortunately, while achieving our purpose in life, we completely have forgotten our purpose of life.

What is our purpose of life?
If you want a single line difference between purpose in life and purpose of life, here you go,
Purpose in life: To make a living for your life
Purpose of life: How to live your life

Amazed, surprised, confused?

Well, we thought both are the same. We thought that our only purpose is to be in a good position which uplifts our family's financial status. 
The tragedy is that the whole universe is running after the purpose in life leaving behind the purpose of life.

Starting right from schools, everyone is taught to become successful. But successful in what?
Successful in our achievements or Succesful in life?

Successful in life means to have a perfect balance between our purpose in life and purpose of life.

If I talk about our purpose of life, you will be studying this post for at least 3 hrs. So, I would like to say it as short and crisp as possible. 
As per my learnings till date, Our purpose of life is to know who we are and live our life with values.

In today's generation, almost everyone is living their lives with only one tagline - 'Life is a competition'.
Even our teachers and elders taught us that life is a competition because their parents taught likewise!
But in reality, everyone's pace is different, one cannot be as capable as another. Because we are living our life as a competition, there is so much chaos all around the world right now.

But once if we think about our purpose of life, everyone starts living their lives with only one tagline - 'Life is a beautiful experience of caring, sharing and co-operating with others'.

We will be learning everything slowly about our purpose of life alongside holding on our purpose in life in upcoming posts.

Summary:
Purpose in life is very important without which we cannot live. But purpose of life is equally important in our lives. Because our purpose in life is visible to us in the form of our achievements and praise from others, we thought that this is the only purpose. But in reality, there is another purpose, which is our purpose of life. Purpose of life is hidden but forms the basis of every achievement we achieve and fosters our every relationship with others.

Try to introspect yourself by doing meditation.


PS: Happy Ganesh Chaturthi : )
















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