Friday, June 29, 2007

Should I die with the beggar?

Sometimes when you read something it provokes your thoughts...it makes you think. I recently read a post written by one of my friends should old beggars kill themselves and I thought to my self it is an intriguing question...it is a question which I don't think I have an answer to but none the less I thought about it. I think it boils down to what you want from your life.. what is it that makes you live. What would you like to achieve in the 70-80 years that you are going to spend on this planet. I think for a beggar the sole puropse of living is to live. Is it bad to live for the sake of living ... I think not. Most of the educated people don't know and don't care as to what they want to achieve in their life. They would know what they want to achieve in from their professional life but since a beggar does not have one he can't have a professional target so as to speak. So in a way at a broad level we are no different than any of the beggars in the street. So the question to ask really is should any body who does not know what he is here for and doesn't want to know have a reason to survive.

I though further whether I know what I want to do in this world over the next 40 years. I thought may be I do but I don't think that I have a very concise and precise answer for the same. A flood of guilt and emotions took over me... I a person who has always been given good food and clothes am no different from a beggar who has always struggled for the next bit when it comes to finding the true meaning of life. Why is my life more important than his? I don't this it is and hence I don't think that he/she should die. If he decided to die I don't have a reason to live

1 comment:

LoonyTalk said...

I'd recommend that you watch the inspiring speech given by Steve Jobs at the Stanford Commencement in 2005. One of his take-home messages was to have faith and believe that everything will fall in place. It is always difficult to look ahead and connect the dots and all so easy to look back and see why certain things happened the way they did!
May be that is an answer to your dilemma...

And yeah, you never know: in India even begging is a business for some! :D