Utpal Dutta, Executive Assistant, The New York Times, Bangladesh National Section :
Is there any space, we call it cosmos too, that embraces the notion ‘purpose of life’! Does any resolution really exists that is inevitable live life! Perhaps not. We are striving for give it a meaning. Then on what we are looking for is purpose. As all rivers run, all the lives on the planet take a course likewise.
Life is a tale told by an idiot.
William Shakespeare, predominant playwright and poet of sixteenth century inserted this dialogue in one of his famous play. This citation, however, deserves a deep insight into life to interpret.
With all our efforts to lead a happy, blissful and meaningful life, very often it appears to be dull and futile. The sky over the head unexpectedly gets cloudy. Someone says, there are certain issues behind it. We don’t want to live life like other creatures or lower animals. An individual, as a human being, always finds a purpose of life. He wants to give it a meaning. He finds his life without the goal otherwise.
That might true. That might be the real nature of a human being. Because he never gets satisfied, as he always prone to explore. He never gives up desires, longings and cravings. He dreams till death.
If we look around we find quite a huge number of people who even don’t have the courage to dream of. Poverty, ill health, unhygienic and sedentary lifestyle has lifted all their dreams and desires. Their eyes give the impression of dull and dismal and overcasting. What they need is precisely support, other’s attention to get them a surface to make a comeback in life so they can play the second innings.
What we can do is merely respond to this attitude. It is to ensure that we are there with them. It is simple to show that we have that attitude to share a helping hand with them. And this petty attitude could make a huge difference, might bring an enormous change in this miserable scenario.
A little effort made might get them back the spark in their eyes they lost earlier. It will wear them a smile on their face causing a basic change to their life. It will enable them to hug the dream of life they abandoned earlier. Our life along with them would earn us a purpose and an exact meaning we are looking for.
Possibly it would no longer seem to be a tale told by an idiot subsequently. We can break out the chain of Shakespeare’s quote. Nevertheless it’s the final stroke. There is Rousseau is there with social contract announcing, ‘Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains’.