No Purpose

"The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature in her manner of operation."

-- John Cage

You can have any purpose you choose. Just realize that whatever purpose you do choose, it's all made up, it's all a game. God did not give you a purpose, nature did not give you a purpose. You have no higher calling. It's just you calling to your self. Metaphysical ventriloquism -- you putting words into the mouth of a Dummy Divine.

I guess having a purpose is suppose to make us feel better, give us a reason to get up in the morning. As if you had no purpose, you'd just lay in bed all day. Hell, you'd at least get up to pee, I hope.

Here's another perspective: Purposeless living is freeing. You go where you want to go, you do what you want to do, not in service of some overriding purpose, but merely because it brings you joy. A world of joyful people, what could be better than that? Surely not a world of grim, nose to the grindstone, purposeful people!

What if living is its own purpose? Like nature, just to be. Not to accomplish, not to collect, not to impress, not even to serve or to love -- just to live? What if you lived each day fully, authentically, no two days the same, without guiding purpose, clearly from the heart of now? What would happen? Want to find out?

Put down purpose. Pick up nothing. Be and see.