The urge to write, to read, to think, to create and to do all the things that we do in our everyday life comes from the elemental urge to define a purpose of living. Whether or not we express or experience that urge consciously, we have it embedded in our souls and our psyche. Without any institutionalised reference to religion, this desire to find a meaning in one's existence, makes life a pilgrimmage of sorts. Evoked from a secular perspective, a pilgrim, according to me, is one who has embarked upon a journey. A journey that takes him to various locales, to various people and hence through various experiences. The destination is the realisation of what some may call God or the Ultimate Truth; I call it finding a purpose. I speak instinctively on the idea of a pilgrim; yet, it is incidental that the etymological root of the word also directs at a secular origin of it. See http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pilgrim In this journey, I choose to experience the domain of the "moving images" (if I may allow myself the obsolete expression for cinema) because I love it. In http://passions-of-a-pligrim.blogspot.com/ I will keep scribbling about my thoughts and ideas on the films which ignite questions in the mind and intrigue me ...You simply need to click at the above link to keep abreast with my thoughts ...
And here they come ...
How absurd can life get!
thoughts about thoughts ... with probability of afterthoughts
And here they come ...
How absurd can life get!
thoughts about thoughts ... with probability of afterthoughts
2 comments:
Fabulously explained about the knack of doing those that keep us alive. Every time I go through these rationalization of habits that are perhaps irrational for some, I just conclude that only an ornithologist will know why s/he keeps waiting patiently focusing on the binocular and a photographer will understand the rush in the blood for capturing the magic moments.It does not need to be a Tendulkar to swing your willow, yet it is that love of swinging the willow of an young lad
that made him a Tendulkar.Only purpose drives us in becoming what we are.
very beautifully said Sandipan...
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