The oc­to­ge­nar­ian lawyer pre­sents a philo­soph­i­cal as­pect of life and urges mankind to fo­cus God­wards. This is the first and the last life. We shall achieve our wishes if we are in­tent and fo­cused to achieve them.

Firstly, we have to ac­cept that God has given this life and we must ac­cept that this is the first and the last chance.  We can­not guess the num­ber of years we will live on this earth.  We do not know the pur­pose for which God has sent us to planet earth. We do not know in what pe­riod of time we will be able to ful­fil the pur­pose for which God has sent us to this world.

Gen­er­ally speak­ing, a ma­jor­ity of us do not fathom the pur­pose of our life.  Those who do so are likely to go ahead in life.

His­to­ri­ans have writ­ten much about rulers but not much of the peo­ple. Lit­er­a­ture too has failed to grant due recog­ni­tion to or­di­nary folk. We too would be ig­nored by his­to­ri­ans, if we do not work for the ful­fil­ment of the tar­get for which God has cre­ated us and sent us to this world.

On one’s own ini­tia­tive, hu­man be­ings have been at­tempt­ing to un­der­stand the pur­pose of life, but have failed. Even re­li­gious peo­ple have not been able to guide prop­erly. Re­li­gious peo­ple tell us the di­rec­tions to fol­low, they tell us that we should pray, but that does not seem to be the pur­pose of life.

Life means a pe­riod to work, but mere work will not lead us to the right path. We must know the true pur­pose of life.  The life span is too small to be wasted or idled away. In this span, we have to keep our­selves healthy, at­tain good ed­u­ca­tion, train our­selves, get jobs or work to get in­come and af­ter such ful­fil­ment, we will be in­clined to know the true pur­pose of life.

Our as­so­ci­ates –par­ents, broth­ers and sis­ters, rel­a­tives and friends, so­ci­ety and gov­ern­ment, all have to take keen in­ter­est in the good­will and growth of each in­di­vid­ual and then de­velop real val­ues, which will en­able col­lec­tive ful­fil­ment of our des­tiny goals for all.

An in­di­vid­ual may iden­tify tar­gets but ex­perts can guide and build the ap­ti­tude re­quired to choose the right pro­fes­sion, trade and em­ploy­ment, which can help in the re­al­i­sa­tion of a per­son’s worth.  A wrong choice can mean de­lay and suf­fer­ing in es­tab­lish­ing the hap­pi­ness quo­tient and ful­fill­ing the pur­pose of life.  This process can be made easy and smooth by par­ents and so­ci­ety mon­i­tor­ing the de­vel­op­ment dur­ing child­hood and younger years.

 If you like our sto­ries, do fol­low WSN on Face­book.

The choice of the right path, the jour­ney on it and the re­sults that fol­low will en­able us to tell God that we made a hon­est en­deav­our to pur­sue the true pur­pose of life as in­tended by the Almighty.