(quote-unquote) What’s the point?
I have three brothers. I consider myself fortunate to have the privilege to learn about life from them without necessarily experiencing things. During the pandemic I was bored one day. I asked, “Dai, I feel too bored; what’s the point of life? Everyday life seems so meaningless.” I hope many people relate to this during the lockdown days. He replied, “The point of life is to simply live.” I would like to quote an excerpt from a show here, “I have no doubt that you would be bored senseless by therapy, the same way I am bored when I brush my teeth and wipe my ass. Because the thing about repairing, maintaining and cleaning is, it is not an adventure. There’s no way to do it so wrong you might die. It’s just work. And the bottom line is, some people are okay going to work, and some people….(sigh) well, some people would rather die (yes!). Each of us gets to choose.”
I was a bit delusional few years back. Having gotten the opportunity to visit two countries I assumed life had to be adventurous. However, looking closely into it, it gets simpler, our subsistential life. It gets easy when we embrace the very monotony of life. The need to maintain ourselves, waking up in the morning and live yet another day. Now going a bit beyond just living, perhaps the point of life becomes creating things for ourselves. It is very crucial for us to be even a little bit curious. That gives us a sense of purpose to find answers or to simply try new things.
There is a difference in having build something for yourself and getting it by privilege. We want things for ourselves. Nepal, however is such a place where every institutions is rife with favoritism for one, and struggle along every action for the other. Now that I am out of that institution, I see them struggling. And they tell me, “Tmile tah compuer padhiraxau hai kya set xa yaar life timro.” Sorry if its rude of me to laugh at them. Change is painful, and we are subject of change many times in life and those people are more susceptible to it as they lack resilience. Lacking the capacity to build things from the ground every time you undergo a change.
Anyways, it is important to know how it is. I know everyone is trying their best. At times everything feels so pointless. Life appears to be quite simple or maybe too simpler than we expect. My answer, though, is that its the curiosity that has kept the humanity alive.
