Some months back I heard a colleague say 'In log run all………we all will be fossils!' J
The term stayed with me. So much for what we attempt to do in the long
run!
What we do today is most probably irrelevant in long
run. So what should our response be? Should we give up all pursuits and just
exist?
The other day I read about Persian Rug.
Cronshaw had given Persian Rug to Philip (Read 'Of
Human Bondage' by W Somerset Maugham) when Philip had asked him about meaning
of life. Cronshaw had told Philip that rug contain answer to meaning of life.
Philip realized years later that meaning of life was that
there is no meaning in it. He realizes -we are born, we suffer, and we
die. The Persian Rug essentially was meaningless and there lay answer to it’s
meaning.
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I can conceptually appreciate that in the long run
whatever we do today might be irrelevant. But I do think that inspite of the
fact that our end is inevitable we choose to weave our Persian rug the way we
want it.
So the question is 'Are we weaving our Persian rug or
are we allowing it to be weaved?'.
But maybe that's the wrong question. We may choose
that we don't want to play an active role in weaving our Persian rug. I am no
one to comment on correctness/incorrectness of such a choice someone else
makes.
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But here's my choice!
Inspite of the inevitability of my end (it’s only a
question of when and not whether – though I surely hope that when is decades if
not atleast a century away J) I want to live
a life full of creating stuff, experiencing what gives me meaning, and living
life with family. These are contours I
will build my Persian rug around.
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How will you weave your Persian rug?
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Sourav
