Karl Jaeger
Wisdom
03 Nov 2009
Life. What is the purpose of life? This is a question that is frequently asked or stated. Life never asks this question. Probably a much wiser question is what is the purpose of my being alive? Part of this question we have probably already answered – to be happy and to enjoy being alive and being happy and having enjoyable experiences which may involve personal pleasure or sometimes possibly shared pleasure – which is shared with another person or at times with more than one other person. Wise happiness never knowingly harms or gives displeasure to any other person.
One of the great challenges in life is to enjoy the pleasure of creating another human being. Ideally this begins with a happy decision or goal which then involves sexual pleasure followed by the opportunity to allow one’s child to have happiness and personal pleasure which is also wise and is not harmful.
The pleasure of creating another human being is a major action and form of personal happiness because it is ongoing and requires time and wisdom and support until the child is old enough and wisely prepared to become more and more responsible for his or her own wise happiness.
What is the purpose of being alive? That would seem to be a personal question for each person to answer for themselves. At first, while being a happy child and enjoying many wise pleasures which do not harm others, the happy child possesses a natural curiosity – a desire to discover and to learn about what it is like to be alive – the taste of food, awareness of one’s body and how it works and what it can (and cannot) do and what pleasures it can experience and how to be happy.
The happy child enjoys learning and acquiring skills and abilities of many sorts. He or she enjoys learning to communicate and to ask questions and to acquire wise answers.
A happy child has many happy purposes in his or her life starting with pleasures and the satisfaction of acquiring knowledge and abilities and skills. Here the happy parent gives freely and here the happy child and the happy parent create a bond between humans.
As a child grows older the child’s search for happiness may also involve more elaborate and complex goals or desires. Indeed, eventually one of the major happinesses of an individual may be to have a more complex goal combined with the sense that s/he is acquiring the goal. Additional pleasure may be acquired by achieving one’s goal. However, there may be the need to acquire a new goal. Some wise individuals may solve this challenge by having more than one goal at any one given time.
And so a parent’s challenge is to help the child to experience wise pleasure including the satisfaction of curiosity and acquisition of knowledge and skills and wisdom and also to open their child to possibilities and opportunities but never over influencing the child’s journey toward becoming a happy and wise adult.
One great challenge is to wisely distinguish between individual and family procedures and those which may arise from so-called society group activities and thoughts outside the happy family of parents and child or children.
Society provides both opportunities and threats and possible harms.
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