Everything is pretty boring till it fascinates you. (How the journey to find a meaning Transforms our lives)

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I have believed for ages that people have differences in their intellectual capacities and it is the single decisive factor in their success. But after talking with many of my friends who actually scored less in their High school and scored higher marks in their college proved my prejudices wrong. What now I believe is that what matters in success is one's interest. Nonetheless of the socioeconomic or cultural milieu in which one is raised, if one has a strong enthusiasm or an endless passion over a particular thing then even the Supreme can't stop him/her from achieving it. Paulo Coelho in his best-selling novel "The Alchemist" writes the same, "When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

Albert Camus in his work the Myth of Sisyphus writes of Sisyphus a figure from Greek mythology as engaged in an endless loop of rolling a stone up a mountain all the way to the top and to seeing it go steep down from the top. Nonetheless of the eerie purposelessness in his action, Sisyphus happily rolls the stone to the top again every time it reaches the bottom valley. He repeats it every time as if he was doing it for the first time. We have to find a novelty in commonness. We are to find a purpose in our life, nobody has a determinate purpose in life, life's purposes are always transforming, that is why it is said that we all are on a journey towards self-discovery, we all are fellow travelers, it is not the destination which matters but the very journey itself. Let the phrase "to be is to become" be the mantra in our lives. I'm existing here so that I can grow into immense possibilities, Though I'm part of a herd which repeats actions mechanistically, I can be authentic by finding myself novel meaning and fresher perspectives all the time" The classical Nietzschean and often misinterpreted adage goes like this "He who has a why to live can bear any how" Our Telos is in finding a greater meaning within the meaninglessness of life, reason within the absurdities of life, a purpose in purposelessness, a richness in the midst poverty, peacefulness in distress, serendipity in Zemblanity, Astonishment in chronic and cold dullness, Expectation in incertitude, trust in times of distrust, hope in times of hopelessness and belief in times of disbelief.

If that's the case there will be no such thing as boredom because by then the very boredom and the concomitant dullness will get a new understanding and Telos.

The ultimate destiny of the demos is to find the telos

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