The life mission

Building my own philosophy to meet life has always been crucial work to me. I would like to take a moment to summarise what I believe to be most important. First of all, I do believe that life does have meaning. While life's meaning is not inherent, its value is. Life has inherent value because of its miraculous perseverance against all odds, and the eventual demise that makes it transient. It is therefore something that is brought about through great effort, energy, and history while also having an eventual end. We have an obligation to honor this value by serving its natural purpose to the highest level, its own perpetuation, and continuation in different forms toward the future. This is the age-old ideal of "paying it forward".

That perpetuation requires each of us to create our own personal sense of meaning and purpose as human beings that require a sense of autonomy to thrive. Hence we all need a personal sense of purpose. This need is also tied to natural law in practice. That happiness and fulfillment on a personal level are required to go out in the external world on a broader level. The perpetuation of the game of life is the external agenda, our own well-being is a personal one. Just as the former cannot be achieved without the latter, we are only able to exist because of these external systems. Such is the relationship between the self and the other, the internal and the external, both being separate parts of a greater whole. Just like it, all opposing poles of dual values have a similar relation, like life and death. That is my view on existentialism in a nutshell. I also touched on my personal philosophy which is characterized by individual happiness and focuses on how to achieve it.

Personal philosophy has two aspects that meet the two parts within everyone, a practical and an emotional aspect. We all need two sets of beliefs that first make us feel at ease with the world, and secondly allow us a rational way to live within it. The practical aspects of personal philosophy involve a set of dos and don't that may guide our choices resulting in the best possible outcomes. The emotional aspects help us regulate our nervous systems and calm our inner turmoil. Both of them may differ significantly due to their separate purpose but should complement rather than contradict each other. 

I believe that we all are capable of creating a sense of purpose for ourselves. When we go to and discover the things life has to offer, we all may find something that we really want to get good at, and might just be able to if we engaged with it. As long as you have a roof over your head and enough food and water to sustain you now as well as in your immediate future, I believe we all can achieve this ideal. Without it, there isn't much for your mind to work toward. This leads me to my first example of how the emotional and practical parts always complement each other. Many people are stuck in situations where they feel compelled to chase security at the cost of deeper meaning. It may just happen many times that if they dug deeper within themselves, they might unroot some trauma or baggage that is holding them back from more authentic experiences. They might feel bad about themselves and find themselves stuck in negative loops that they are self-imposing.

True, many people face external issues that hold them back, that I will address after I make my point. My point is that without a real sense of self awareness and acceptance, people are stuck in negative loop regardless of their reality. I believe those that fit the requirements of ensured basic survival should consider this seriously and keep it close at heart. That said, a vast majority of people face so many difficulties beyond self-imposed ones. Economic, mental, physical, and emotional. That brings me to the rational philosophy. The emotional part of philosophy is about selflessness, detachment, and departure from the ego. It is about a meditative way of life where you have an attitude of a stoic, monk-like, cave-dwelling ascetic. This allows you to be happy and satisfied by your own self regardless of your situation. Then this has to be doubled with a practical set of personal beliefs and a strong moral compass. This moral compass also relates to the external aspect of philosophy which dictates your awareness of the world and your own place in it. 

One of my own core ethical belief is that just as your life has intrinsic value so does everything else. Just as you deserve to be happy, so does everyone else deserves the opportunity to thrive. Once we have attained the luxury to be free from a state of emergency in any area of our life, we should turn toward the people to the right and to the left of us with a will to serve them in meaningful ways. This gives a deeper meaning to our happiness and empoers other's to share it with us and connect over the same. The outside world beyond this bubble of idealistic alturism is a ferocious, ruthless, and lawless wild land. The strong survive and the weak perish. Chaos runs rampantly unchecked. Terrible things happen without rhyme or reason. Unimaginable horrors may lurk around every corner.

Yet that is where your joy and love has true value. A ray of light has little worth on the surface of the sun. Yet during nightime even the moon becomes a beloved companion. Just as the sun literally feeds all life on earth, our inner light is meant to shine upon the darkness that exists. Even a shameless drunken pervert can derive pleasure from debauchery only after tasting true virtue. Indeed there is some inherent pleasure to be found in sinful activities, and so many people live in pitch black darkness with no awareness of the light, so far beyond redemption. That is what makes this crusade an impossible mission. I insist in abiding by my belief that far away from the practical maxim of "don't pick a fight you can't win" which rings true on the short term level of individual battles, a truly rich life practically demands a mission so grand and just, that it is literally impossible to achieve.

That is the inherent existential nature of life. That which exists for its own sake, only to perpetuate itself, against astronomical odds of supernatural proportions. True joy and fulfillment is found in in the process of pursing a goal greater than your puny self. In many ways it seems my philosophy is more cohesive than I had imagined. While I thought that every aspect of life that has to be dealt with separately, must have a good deal of diffences in terms of my approach to them, which is true to some part. Yet there is also an unexpected level of unity in my beliefs where the core is present throughout the whole.

Rather than attempting to lay down the entirety of my soul on the canvas of this page, I shall leave this as a, unfinished first draft for now. While I wished to write down my thoughts on the matter in a spur of inspiration bought forth by my recent experiences, I lay content that I have made the most of it, and that the inspiration has found it's forever home in the cloudy bliss of this computed safe, where it may rest in peaceful slumber, away from the gnawing hordes of busybodies that may wish to feast upon it thinklessly and taint it's holy purity.