So just how did I come across this seemingly bleak statement? Well, for starters I've recently come to the personal conclusion that I've only been hanging onto the thought and the hope and the belief that there is a purpose to existence.

And joined to this thinking is the thought that I have been one of the unfortunate one's who has yet to stumble upon, or even trip over, my life's purpose along my personal life's journey.

I guess at times I even entertained the thought that perhaps there was a sadistic spiritual joke being played upon the human called 'Andre Best'.

Regardless of all this background and personal insight and posing of funky bleak questions, I still find it kind of troubling to think that there is no real purpose to life and no divine intention that we're all supposed to fulfill before they're shoveling dirt in our face.

For so many years I had focussed on and worked towards and kept myself moving towards the belief, the hope, that there truly was a genuine purpose that I personally had to be working towards.

This was, in a sense, giving my life meaning and something to work towards. But I guess in my case it became not so much a task towards an end but rather an obsession. And the more I worked towards defining my purpose, or so I thought, the more frustrated I became.

You see, a defining purpose is ultimately what we're all seeking, that is, the seekers in life who are seeking. We want there to be an answer. We want there to be a solution to every problem that comes across our Life desk. And we don't like the unknown so when there is an area of our life that is unknown it is especially important to fill that hole. With something.

And if the actual answer can't be found to fill the hole with then the substitute will suffice.

In my case that substitute was the search for an answer.

Viktor Frankl states in 'Man's Search for Meaning' that if a person is given a 'why' then they will find a 'how'. What this means is that if a person is given a reason to live, a defining purpose, then that is enough to get them through the times in their life that are especially difficult when they don't know 'how' they're going to get through that time. But finding a 'why' is enough to give them the strength to find the 'how' to carry them forward beyond the darkness of that moment in time.

Along my path, my 'why' was to find a purpose to my existence and even though the 'how' to address that 'why' was to pursue many avenues focusing on inner development and personal growth the 'how' still wasn't enough to satiate this inner drive towards the so-called answer I was pursuing.

Why? Because the 'why' became a problem, in my case. That is, the 'why' for me became the goal to pursue.

Specifically, I expected to find out why I was placed here on this plane and once discovered, everything would be taken care of for me. But, unfortunately, things weren't to be that simple.

I've realized that because I couldn't figure out my defining 'why' I became focussed on the pursuit of the 'why' and that didn't allow me to take advantage of any 'how's' that may have found their way across my path.

Let me state this another way...

Because I pursued my own personal 'why' but I couldn't find it I glommed onto the process of finding that 'why'. But the only thing I didn't do was to actually find out my own personal why. More on that in a bit.

I guess that I'm like many people on this life quest for answers. Instead of finding the answer that I expect to exist I became focussed on the search.

The quest.

The process.

The expectation.

And in the end, somewhere along the way, I had forgotten that perhaps - just perhaps - there is no 'why'.

But all along I had become so identified with the 'pursuit' of my own why that it never even occurred to me that maybe there isn't any end answer to the long quest(ion).

Think about it, outside of a religious perspective why does there have to be a reason for each of us existing on this plane for the short few decades (if we're so lucky) that we happen to be physical creatures?

Some would say it is to come to a sense of completion in this or that aspect of our life individually or with another one or many people, this time around. Others would say that perhaps our existence is so that we can learn to become spiritual creatures to the best of our human abilities.

And even some would say our existence is to become perfect human beings.

But, outside of all these human-driven explanations perhaps one should also consider on a very deep internal level that just maybe there is no purpose to our individual existence.

Now, before some of you think 'Whoa, back that spiritual truck up dude!' let me shed some light on the seemingly dark statement I just placed in your e-lap.

Ponder the remote possibility that there is no ultimate reason for a person's existence.

No becoming a boss of a Fortune 100 company.

No becoming a holy saint and helping the poor, unfortunate, and downtrodden.

Even no becoming the best parent to your kids and shoulder to cry on for your family and friends. None of that.

Now, I'm not espousing that any of those intents are bad, or wrong, or unnecessary in this world. We all know otherwise in many ways that they are needed.

What I'm getting at is that perhaps we are just meant to be born, go through our personal allotment of roughly 25,000 days day by day by day, and then go back into the abyss that we came from.

Now, does that have to be such a bad thing to consider and perhaps even accept? Maybe for some. But for others, like me, it is something that is giving me relief that there just might not be a 'higher purpose' why I personally was placed vertically on this planet for this period of time.

And there's nothing wrong with that. In fact there's everything good with that potentiality.

Unloading that type of mental burden is beginning to show me that there is another way to exist on this plane.

That is, in the moment. With the moment.

It's freeing up the space in my mind that heretofore was focussed with incredible precision on the 'quest'. And while this was going on, the present moment was passing by to my obliviousness.

That's not good. Why? Well, with all that going on, how can one be present to the moment-by-moment life we all live?

How can one be present to what is happening in the now, internally and externally, when one is thinking about the potential future discovery of the 'why'?

How can one be in relation to the world and others in it when one is absent even to themselves mentally with a preoccupation of discovering this elusive answer to this non-necessary question posited?

Again, by focusing on the 'why' the present moment is missed. Over and over and over.

And by letting go of the 'why' free and easy, the thinking about 'why' is dissipated and room is made for 'now', free of thoughts.

Acceptance.

Resolution.

Possibility.

Right now, where I'm at, this insight I've recently come to is very intriguing to say the least. And how impacting is it appearing to be?

That's easy to answer. It's already coagulated enough in my gray matter that I'm able to share it with you.

So, tell me... how impacting is it for you?

Written by Andre Best
President, Ultimate Results, Inc.
http://www.andrebest.com
'Learn About Life From Another Perspective'

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