I’m willing to bet everyone reading this remembers the childhood tale about the hare and the tortoise. Most likely, all of us have also gleaned a valuable life lesson from it, and much more such blah!! However, I have always had a general wonderment about certain aspects of the story.
My first query runs thus: what would have happened if the hare, upon hearing some small noise the tortoise made as it passed him, had awoken and actually seen the tortoise passing him?? Would he have still neglected the tortoise as a threat, it being as slow moving as it is, and continue to rest in the certainty that he would be able to make up any deficit over the tortoise; or would the hare have been galvanized to action, sprinting forward, unwilling to give the tortoise any length of the stick whatsoever?? Would the tale, perhaps, have ended differently?? Granted, if it ended on a different note, the moral it was fabricated to teach in the first place would be lost, but then this is more of an abstract thought exercise than anything concrete at all!
Secondly, and this I think is more worthy of thought than the first, what if the hare had decided to rest in such a place where he could see the finish, the proverbial flag at the end of the road? Would he have been able to bring himself to rest in the first place?? Or perhaps, would he find it more appealing to finish the race and then rest, a rest which would then have a certain finality to it?? Again, the moral is lost in this case, but my excuse, the same as the first one, stands firm.
The point I’m trying to make is essentially an analogy: what is it about humans that requires either a definite goal or a sense of competition in order to drive us towards excellence?? Why cant the human mind, when deprived of both of the above, namely when it is aimless and wandering, perform productively? Why is it that we, as a species, lack a driving force, when devoid of both a clearly perceivable target and competition to achieve that target??
The chronicler has no answers to the questions posed? He does not even comprehend whether the questions are profound or naïve. It is to you, perceptive reader, that he looks for answers. Here’s to the hope that you shall provide.
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hey....really gud one....liked it alot....it almost left me pondering over this million dollar question "PURPOSE OF LIFE".....ahh hope to see more of such gud stuff.
well i think its all got to do with 42....
if the hare was in such a position that he wud reach the finishing point in 42 seconds he wont be able to stop himself, otherwise he will and the toroise will win tho he will take more than 42 seconds, 420 to be exact, to reach the place
the idea here is to find a purpose in life. our lives revolve around ambitions, desires and greed.an aimless and pointless life will yield no productivity because then there is nothing to look forward to. neither are you helping yourself nor are are you helping others . the idea of life would be to reach out to everyone and everything. we all need a purpose.the idea that i am trying to say is that the purpose of life is a life of purpose.
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