Thoughts on Purpose

[ssurgul]

It's funny, but now I have 3 different films that I view as teaching/preaching the same message just in very different ways.

The Matrix Trilogy -- where Purpose is not only defined by action and thought/word/deed, but also by choice and karma.  We are as we have always been and will be again.  Within acceptable levels of standard deviation, hereafter known as wisdom and learning.

Batman Begins -- No matter what Purpose we think we have, only a few of us are slated for actual Heroics.  The rest are far better served by not trying to explore all and sundry things leading to the final, shattering realization that a Normal Life is something that demands the very best of us as well.

What Dreams May Come -- Our Purpose is never set in stone.  What we are carries with us into the hereafter.  Our actions, thoughts and deeds reverberate throughout time.  Purpose is given unto us by ourselves; it is not, or it is completely, the domain of The Divine.  We ourselves are Divine in our ways and that Divinity can grant us Purpose, even (as the not-so-happy-deleted-ending showed) when that Purpose is to experience a fireball of love and connection if only for the briefest of times.

We all struggle with Purpose, knowing our own place.  Some, because they are easily guided on this plane, choose to read about what their Purpose 'is' or 'ought to be', vis a vis The Purpose Driven Life.  Others simply take the tack that life is, and ultimately will depart us, and to celebrate it in all its forms via whatever strengths and weaknesses we have in this life is the only real responsibility.  See Minbari or Native Americans.

What drives us?  What leads us along?  What gives us that microscopic hole in our minds or souls that it normally takes a lifetime to fill as we continually empty it rather than simply leaving it be?  What makes some strive so hard to reach beyond who and what they are, to inflate their own Purpose beyond their means that they are left without joy, without love, without .... anything?  Why do they choose to ignore the more simple Purpose they may have, and can very likely soothe their souls and assuage their agonies with?  Why do they feel they MUST become the hero, when those they would champion have no concern for them, nor even care that they live or die?  Why then do they also forcibly limit their scope to a more localized hero, rather than embrace the need for Eternal Champions, to use a Moorcockism?

Why does Purpose elude so many?