Purpose?

"I want to tell you something, Mark. It's something you do not yet know, but we K-PAXians have been around long enough to have discovered. The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself. Then it will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will make again on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through. Again. And again. Forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because... this time... is all you have."

~Kevin Spacey (Prot), K-PAX.

     When one spends several fruitless days attempting to come up with a subject for a blog, its at these times when he or she falls back on the first thing that comes to mind. This statement looks at Hindu beliefs with great respect, and a hint of contempt. Showing a certain belief in the Hindu belief of Karmic birth and rebirth, Prot adds a small underlying subtext - Sure, you'll die, then be reborn again, but there's no sight of Moksha, bro. You will always live the same life, as the same person/creature you are. You will always find happiness, solace and contentment in the same things, and the shit will always hit the fan, making the same splatter it did the last time.
     Kinda completely ruins the idea of rebirth, doesn't it?
But what if, for the time being, we assume that this theory is true? What if life really has no bigger purpose? What if our existence is simply to... exist? Would that change us? Or would we simply ignore this idea and go ahead with life with the subconscious acknowledgement that we have no reason to look to the future. That we must have faith in purpose for the simple reason that we must have peace of mind to exist.
     Or would we join the realists, pour out a peg of Royal Stag and say "Who cares if the glass is half-empty or half-full? We gotta drink it anyway."
     At this point I consider myself lucky. I have never been bothered with 'a higher purpose'. It is my belief that one must exist to find the balance between living for oneself and living for others. It leaves one with a clear conscience and a happy feeling at the end of a rigorous day. And on those Sisyphean days when I do search for purpose, I remember that feeling, and move on to a brighter sunrise.