What is missing?

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Well !! you can have many perspectives looking at this question, one can be of course https://whatismissing.net which emphasizes on the extinct species in different regions of the world due to environmental conditions in a very beautiful and efficient way. Another is what we all know, the everyday stories of missing people, accessories, family members, loved ones etc. around us, but is it all which is missing?

There is one more point of view which you might find difficult to relate to materialistic entities but you do encounter it every day and every night wherever you go, but you seldom consider it. The reason could be that our mind is not yet trained to see it and even if we see, it is very low on our priority list but has a major impact on the every day human affairs. The way you do your work, the way you meet with others, the way you react to situations, everything is linked to it. One of the consequences of this absence is depression which takes a life every 40 seconds in the world another could be total self-destruction of human society.

So, what is this thing, which is missing? so obvious in front of us yet we never notice it.

Well, my friend, we call it “purpose”. What is our purpose?
To take birth in a place we never chose, grow up in an environment we never have any control over, do what everyone else is doing whole our life, chasing a mirage hopelessly and then, in the end, Die.

Wow! what a waste of the life. Well, you can do that, it is not morally unsound, many have done it, are doing and will do in the future. But it is very difficult for me to believe that we are provided with this human body, the most sophisticated machine in the world just to get wasted.

Then, why are we here? what is the purpose of us evolving from a single atom to a group of more than trillion atoms with a conscience? Is it just to survive? Well, trees also do that, so do birds and animals in the forest or even a single bacterium on your eye while you are reading THIS word.

We, humans, are the best product of evolution the only one with ability, curiosity, and posture to look up and find the purpose for our existence.

You can find many versions of this, but I think we have only two main purposes, Identify and do what we love to AND help others to do what they love. In simple words, to be happy and help others to be it. Our unique contribution and then aggregation might help mankind to achieve something, which even I don’t know, but definitely worth our existence.

So, as always, Let’s think of ourselves first, what is your purpose? Under the influence of the above words, you might say, my purpose is to help others. Ok great! But what else? What is that something which no one can do better than you? Don’t know it yet? Worth finding out.

YOU! Yes, You! You are unique, one of your kind. Everything about you is different from everyone else, starting from your basic element “your DNA”. The probability that two people received exactly the same number of repeated sequences from their two parents (in simple words same DNA) is one in several hundred trillion, according to Dr. D. P. Lyle in “Forensics for Dummies.”.Awesome! We are so different.

Yes, our society gives us certain models and trails to follow and get approved ahead or behind in a race that we all are running. Do “That” like “This” and “This” like “That” and we follow, we have to, everyone wants to be socially acceptable. Some of us exhaust themselves in pursuit of approval from others, unaware of the fact that they cannot always make everyone applauding their actions. Helping people and pleasing them are very different things and we will talk about it some other day, Today is for us. How do we be happy, proud and please ourselves? What to do?

Well, do you admire someone? some entrepreneur or a visionary or some spiritual leader? what they always ask you to do? Exactly! They always say “Follow your heart”, that your intuition somehow knows what’s right for you because it always knows what you are you best at… Blah! blah! You know what? They are not wrong!

The problem you solve by doing what you are best at is “Your purpose”.

Do what you are best in doing if you like making furniture deliver the best furniture in the world or the best food or the best fabric or the best orgasm or the best car or the best bag, anything. Be happy yourself and help others by spreading that positivity, that optimism, that energy, and that love. Simply, because what you emit outside is what you carry inside.

But why should you help others? You can find what you are best at, earn lots of money, be happy and chill! You can, but…

Try this, Suppose one fine morning you wake up and find yourself on the moon. Wow! That’s exciting. Well. Yes, for a brief moment of time it is. But after a while, you will start missing your home. At that moment what will you miss? the apartment you live in or you want to fly back to the beautiful blue sphere, we call Earth, Our home!

One interesting thing you will see from there is that there are no naturally created borders between countries, which means no matter you are Indian or Pakistani, American or Mexican, South or North Korean, Christian or Jew, Hindu or Muslim, you all live in the same place. Just a matter of perspective.right?

And Since we are imagining right now, and there is no boundary of human imagination, one of the greatest gifts we have. Let’s assume you can observe all of our activities from there, what will you find? you will surely find reasons for human quarrels trivial and disappointing, You will find that we are all connected, that we are social animals, that we can only live in groups not otherwise. Now, one can say, only those, who look like me and talk like me is my group. ok!

Remember where you are? Now, look around you! A barren land of the moon. Feeling lonely yet? If not, look a bit further, to Mars or further to the nearest Star we have. Spotted any human? Or even a sign of life? No? Keep looking, and when you get tired, look back to this blue planet “Your Home”. You will realize how unique, fortunate and rare this place is, worth protecting and caring.

Now, look at us “Your family”. You will surely find the most critically endangered intelligent species within million billion trillion kilometers, are they worth your love now? Do you see them as one now?

Well, come out of your imagination, go and look out of your window now, the first person you see is Made of the same stuff as you are, living on that same blue colored home, just like you.
I cannot say what you are feeling now, because they are your personal thoughts, aren’t they? Keep them with you till every next time you get angry at someone, feel disgusting of someone, want to exclude someone from a group or hurt someone for your personal gain.

Remember what you saw sitting in the isolation, in a vacuum away from your home.

Only a slight change in point of view can tell you how few we are, it’s we only who can help each other by doing whatever we do best and helping another one to do what he/she is in. By this, you can fulfill your purpose and fill the gap of “what is missing” around us.

It’s only us who can bring people and cultures together making us all not only a member of a certain religion, geography or culture, not only citizen of a nation but of this blue planet. Because once we fulfill this endeavor, there is another one waiting for us.
There in the Stars

All the best! 🙂
~R