Why?

It's the one question that can topple the monolith of pretenses. Forget every axiom, every convention, everything "normal", look yourself in the eye and ask yourself this. Dig deep into the depths of your soul... Cleave through the undergrowth of conditioning... Hack those dead stumps... clear the field... because you are about to sow the seeds of your essence.

Every answer to the question "Why?" is a seed sown. Every confirmation of that answer from your interaction with the world around is fertilizer. Every action taken on the basis of that idea is water.

Some answers will not be very appealing... some will threaten to tear you apart with grief or anger... some might deflate that image you have of yourself... What matters is that you know it is the truth. What matters is that you aren't fueling your own facade by sowing dead seeds.

The only reason to do this is to run your fingers through that golden harvest even if it is just once before winter sets in.

Selflessness and Altruism

These words are proclaimed in the ngo arena as though they are holy incantations. Just one question though... If you are selflesslessly helping someone, YOU are not really helping anyone because you don't exist (The unfortunate trade-off for being selfless).

Firstly, what is 'self'? I believe, it is a combination of our values, ideas, perspectives, actions, visions, body, intellect, emotions and expressions (Am I missing out on anything?). If you ask me to 'sacrifice' all this for helping the world, it get a little tough considering the productive options remaining (Are there any, i wonder...).

Then we have the famous driving force of altruism which implies unselfish (not concerned about one's own welfare) concern for and devotion to the welfare of others. Another little question... Why does an 'unselfish' individual help others? Because seeing others happy makes him or her feel happy... But hey! If you want to be happy and are doing something towards achieving that end, doesn't that make you self-centered?