Purpose of life

Most people do not know the raison d'etre of their life. Their ship of life sails thru the waters of the world wandering as per the direction of the winds. People think of doing something but don't know what to do and where to start. Similarly, people want to go but don't know where to go. I repeat an analogy I have used in numerous training and coaching sessions. You reach VT (now CST) station wanting to go somewhere. Not knowing where to go, you board the first train which comes. After a while, it reaches the fork, Dadar station, i.e. one train going to Borivali (WR) and the other train going to Kalyan (CR). You board the first train and reach Kalyan. There again comes a fork, one going to Nashik and the other to Pune. You take the Pune train by chance and end up at the Pune fork. There you see one train going to Solapur and the other to Kolhapur. You continue your journey this way and end up after many days at, say, Kolkata. So, you end up at an unknown and undecided destination, by chance within a timeframe, which was not under your control. Instead of this, when you reached VT station, if you were clear that you wanted to go to Bangalore, you would have explored all the options of reaching there; by Train in 24hrs, by Volvo bus in 18hrs and by flight in 3hrs. You would have reached your desired destination with optimal resources, i.e. money & time, in a specific timeframe. It is important to learn from this analogy and work out your vision and mission for your life. This will help you achieve something (could be anything you define) in life and when you do lie on your final resting bed (the last 24hrs or the final 1 hr of your life) and introspectng, you may have less remorse and could leave this world in a happy and satisfied state of mind. Exploit this beautiful world & live life fully.