Is there a purpose in anything?

Hobbies

I saw a post recently on twitter of someone who collected colorful rocks. She claimed it served no purpose. Yet there was a picture of a large collection of equally sized rocks ranging colors from greens yellows orange to red. The picture itself served a purpose. And it triggered to write this article. How can she claim it served no purpose, in my mind it did. Maybe it brought some satisfaction and peace to her mind.

Hobby

As I can see this is not only inherent to such actions. Most of the hobbies serve no purpose other than being inherently satisfying to the person who is doing it. It may be collecting feathers, composing poems or riding bicycle. On a superficial level there is no immediate benifit.

Here in this blog we go one step further as always. That is the objective anyway. Think anything thoroughly enough until we find the bottom of it. So we can arrive at the truth one day. Let's ask the question again. Does anything you do today going to serve any purpose? Is there a purpose in doing anything?

Yes! There is. You must be insane if you answered no. If you are building a bridge it serves purpose for thousands to cross it. If you are writing a novel it will entertain thousands of people. If you are cooking, it will feed your family. There is apparent purpose for everything we do. Even mediocre tasks like collecting rocks, and digging a tunnel in nowhere serves a purpose. That's why we do it. But here is a thought. Whatever you do serves the purpose only as long as human consciousness is prevalent on earth.

Death

Imagine after death. Anything which you have done for the purpose of yourself would not have effect on you, after your death. It might still serve some purpose to those who are living. Maybe even 10000 years if you manage to build something which last that long. Definitely it's not build from bread and butter. Perhaps some knowledge written on paper or carved on the walls of your tomb. It's upto you if you would like to make a legened of it. But I can warn you it will only serve any purpose to you only as long as you live.

Is there a purpose in anything?

Here we can widen our imagination more. Let's stretch our time horizon a billion years into the earth's future. If elon musk did not succeed, or even if we did succeed to make ourselves multiplanatory, most likely there would be no humans at that time. Like dinosaurs. Likely we are long vanished from earth. Relative to that future, which is most likely inevitable, is there any purpose what you are doing today? Even if you build something which lasts a million years, there would be no use for the future. So, this makes us know what is the essential component in anything which serves a purpose. I can summarise this into a one sentence.

If something is not immortal, it doesn't serve any purpose in the infinite timescale of the universe.

Just some candy

Which means, things which decay have no true purpose which lasts. So the real question we should ask ourselves in life is, is there something which never decay? Is it gold? Is it money? Is it relationships? Is it happiness? Is it peace? If you find any of these interesting candidates, weight them against an infinite timescale even beyond yourself. You will arrive at a conclusion if you are wise enough to see.

Now here is an interesting thought. Consider the truth that you learned by reading this and weight it against the same infinite timescale. What do you understand?