What next? I wondered as I sat in my room. That’s not to say I achieved anything enormous, I did not achieve anything great; rather just finished giving my mid-semester examination and realised, What’s needed to be done next? Legit, running out of purpose, I believe. When I think about billionaires who achieved great fortune in life, what’s next for those people?, i wonder. Are they always running, or will they just someday sit down and let everything else take place?
I don’t think they can because they are worried that if they did, they might lose all the hard work they put into their business—and I’m talking about millionaires right now.
Though I’m just a corporate kid and, beside grinding my ass for 9 hours six days a week along with pursuing my graduation, probably lost on this subject of meaning and purpose, ruminating obsessively about what a billionaire might be doing in a condition like this?
Either, they must be planning to keep going like this after amassing wealth, never taking a chance to cherish for what they have, or stealing some time to take a pause here. Should I pause here for the same reason too?
It is not so much a question of whether to stop or not as it is of what to do once they resume? Do they still have same worthy purpose to pursue? or do they just let fate take its course? I guess no for later scenario, since this may risk their already-accumulated wealth.
However I’m still curious as to how people in their 60’s or 70’s still pursue their goals without running out of purpose and keep looking after “what comes next?”. Is there any limit to this “what’s next” question? How do they maintain it and never get tired of finding the answer? Above all, apart from the reason-risk, what makes them going instead of just quitting?
Running in circle
Woke up, drive to work; work, drive to home; family time, dead now until woke up again; You are fucked up.
Dude, you are legit dead….stop fucking with your life.
This isn’t just the story of me but a billionaire too, who never took time to reflect upon their why. All this time, they have been totally relying on their purpose. And once the purpose is fulfilled, what’s next? Most likely, develop a more ambitious goal and begin pursuing it.
As a human beings, we have always learned to chase down things to find them meaningless or shallow in the end, and that, it was only us who gave meanings to a meaningless fuck.
But take a moment and think about how something that isn’t alive can yet provide us meaning; that thing can’t even breathe, bruh? Perhaps we are the only one who link a certain meaning to those deadly things. But yet this is another part of the philosophy for some other day point of discussion.
So what’s that endless purpose? so we don’t have to ask what’s next?
First and foremost, a purpose is eternal but a goal is transient. We gonna prove it shortly.
Imagine it this way, I wanted to go on a trip so I did. Trip ended well in 10 days and I’m back home. What’s next? Certainly back to work! Similarly, I have been working and didn’t go on a trip for last couple of months. What’s next? Certainly I will go on my next trip. Trip ended well. What’s next? Certainly back to work.
I’m hallucinating, dude. What the fuck is this going on? Why am I always running in this circle? Just hand me a path straight to where I belong. Somewhere, my everyday feels like my last day, and my last day feels like eternity. Where is that place supposed to be?
Every time you travel to a destination you will keep asking this question. But, the moment you choose an endless journey, and set out on a path where you journey is the destination, this question dissolves. That’s where your purpose play its part.
We are chasing hallucinations
So what’s next? Avoid responding me with what I’ve already said. Please don’t loop me back into this again. Something that makes me feel alive – that’s what I’ve been looking for, something distinctive. Don’t try to push me into a chasm. Oh, so feel alive. Well, that’s unique concept.
So what makes you feel alive, which you do a million times but never get tired of? aamm….!! probably breathing…..hahah are you crazy me…..think differently…..probably making my heart beat…..damn you don’t mention that, it happens itself.
So why don’t I find something I enjoy doing but never grow tired of? I mean, doing it makes me alive, much like breathing and my heart beating, because my body never complains about doing it repeatedly. And this way, I won’t ever have to experience fatigue or a sense of meaninglessness if I discover something like this; nonetheless, I will be alive. To feel alive will become part of my purpose, not in a biological sense but in a spiritual one. In a spiritual sense, I’m referring to my spirit, which is happier and more alive; now it feels great doing it, and I never have to ask what’s next.
But what’s that purpose? So I don’t ask what’s next, and my only purpose becomes my purpose for life. Never running out of fuel; no next; only something that is here and now. A lifelong journey.
The answer however is within what Rumi believes “All that you need to know is already within you,” Sadhguru and Osho both believes this.
Alright, so I’ll be moving within. I need to reflect on what is that gives my life another life. Things that I do and feel fantastic after doing. Workout is probably one of those; travelling is one more; night outs, parties, bkchodi, dating…!! Gosh, how are you going to make end meets through all this stuffs? Without wealth, how do you make it to another day or week?
Well, did I really mentioned bkchodi? Ok, no offence!
Alright, so what you are saying is to find your passion and turn it into a source of income. So that, with your service, others feel nourished and pay you. Then comes monetization. However, first you must identify your passion, keep doing it, and keep giving it your consistent efforts until it completely manifests. IKIGAI!!
To mujhe europe ghumna h…paisa kha se aaega?? mera manager kya mera baap lag rha h ki mujhe long vacations pe jaane dega?? constraints! constraints! constraints!
Apna krlu kuch…no more typing in hindi…westerns ke lie bhi kuch gyaan likh rha hu so…another constraint…
Lets break such constraints!
To break constraints, knock repeatedly until the door eventually wide opens.
The Final Mantra!
So as of now, you have moved within, discovered your passion, and are now knocking repeatedly until you get a response. So, What’s next?
The idea is what’s next question doesn’t exist if the purpose of life is greater than your own existence. If it extends beyond you, we can say it has extended one life; if it extends beyond your family, it has prolonged three lives; assume it; if it has extended a community, you have reached beyond 100 lives. You transcend more life, and the more people get connected with your purpose, That’s why greater purpose can never be fulfilled alone; it takes a whole damn team in order to manifest. ISKON is a great example of this.
The moment you start living a purposeful life you go beyond this question of what’s next. As the Jay Shetty exclaims “Your passion becomes a purpose when you use it to serve others”. Furthermore, he adds on “It’s amazing what we can do when our passion meets a purpose greater than our self.”
If we contemplate a bit on both quotes and we extract, a purpose to serve others and purpose greater than our self – this what’s next disappear.
Consider the following scenario: you are assigned a project at work that will take a year to complete; similarly, another employee is assigned a project that would take five years, and consequently, someone with ten years. The key point is that the what’s next query will only concern an individual with ten years long project once in a decade. but ten times whose project is one year long.
That’s why, Jay meant the same thing when he said a purpose greater than oneself, something that transcends one’s own life and involves helping others, and never ending service.
Because trust me, somewhere in this world, someone is in need of you. Not only this service leads to redemption but also something everlasting that transcends death and remain true to your spirit.
Karm Yog—that’s what Bhagavad Geeta calls it.
Signing off for today!