Why Life is a search function?
Have you ever searched for something? Perhaps your keys went missing, or you lost your purse somewhere. Maybe you are searching for a new land to build a house. Maybe It is just a car. Maybe you are looking for a spouse, or even someone missing in your life. No matter what the situation is the life feels like a search function.
Have you ever contemplated about this? Life as a search function. Even a newborn baby cries as he/she is looking for her mother for some milk and warmth. Animals search for food, water and shelter. In times of the spring, they look for mates and x. Each and every time when they go on searching for something, they would eventually find it. Or something similar. And that will stop their search. At least for a while. For a half a minute actually, someone would not look for something, and we can call this peace. Next, their minds will fix on something else to search.
So, if you want to learn about life, I suggest you start thinking about this search function. More importantly following questions.
What to search in life?
How to search in life?
Why search for anything in life?
I will try to answer with my knowledge and limited wisdom. However, answers should be generated or recreated individually by each person.
What to search in life? Whatever your heart desire
Answer to this question, is it doesn't matter. Our likings and disliking's markedly differ. And opportunities provided to us in life are varied according to our environment. As an example, if you are born a son to a farmer in Vietnam you would be wanting to buy a tractor. That would be your search function for the rest of your life. But if you are born son to a Texas ranger, you would want to become a Rodio Bull Rider. Imagine you changed the location of the Ranger and the Farmer. They would definitely search for different things in life then. So, as far as what to search in life is concerned, we have to be more knowledgeable. More you have information your wanting will change in life. Today information is free, it's just a matter of choosing what to put inside the brain. It will get iteratively better when you start as each new information will improve the next one.
How to search in life? - Search in parallel
This was my mistake in life. The greatest mistake in life for someone is not to realize that search function is not linear. Like a Turing machine. Search function can be parallel. Without searching in a particular place at a particular time, you might want to run 100 search queries simultaneously. It is more likely you will hit the target in shorter period of time. We can call it having more options, or diversifying your portfolio, or even multitasking. (Although latter is a myth)
Why life is a search function?
Perhaps this is the hardest question of life. If you solve this problem, you will stop the search function entirely at your will. Imagine such a condition, where you can sit on a chair without needing anything, except for the physical pain of existence, there is no mental pain. And you might even stay until your hunger no longer bothers you, and nothing moves you away from your peace. Can meditation and mindfulness achieve such a state of mind? I am not sure, in a matter of days for few minutes of meditation it might not work. However, if we deliberately try to understand the process of mind over years and decades, the peace will eventually come, not in ways we assume it would, as mind is always run with an inherent error. And conclude itself the search for anything in life is meaningless.
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