Most people have an entirely wrong idea about the purpose of life.
Purpose of life isn't to hoard wealth, because once you die, you lose it anyway so you gained nothing in the end.
Purpose of life isn't to work and develop your career, because once you die you lose that too. There is nothing which you can achieve in life which won't perish.
The question is which part of you survives once you die.
If it's none, then life has no ultimate purpose because whatever you gain perishes in the end.
Then I started thinking about Meowbah's words: "When the end of the world comes and your Gods remain silent, do not turn to meow. Meow offered her hand to you but you rejected it. Ameow!"
Now I am thinking, maybe point of life is to achieve nothing so you don't lose anything once you die.
So maybe I was wrong in trying to achieve being a billionaire, because no wealth is permanent.
What can I achieve which I won't lose? Only achieving nothing means losing nothing.
This, the Tao saying:
"To have or not to have, which is worse?"
Person who has nothing cannot lose anything.
So far I believed that people who are poor and unemployed and broke and homeless are actually in a bad position, but then I realized such people can only gain in life. They can't lose anything cuz they don't have anything.
This has got me thinking. If person has nothing, what can such a person lose? He can't lose money cuz he doesnt have it. He can't lose a girlfriend cuz he doesn't have one. He can't lose a job because he doesn't have a job. He is in the ultimate position where he literally cannot lose anything. He can only win or remain where he is.
All gain produces loss. But without gain, loss is impossible.
So if person has nothing, that person can only progress in life. He cannot lose anything he has, cuz he doesn't have anything.
This got me thinking about my cat. My cat is not only smart, but also very humble. All it takes for a cat to be happy is some food and warm place to sleep.
Cat isn't trying to become a billionaire, and even if he did, what good would he have from those billions?
Animals are extremely humble creatures. They ask for only most basic stuff.
However, people with higher intelligence are never satisfied with what they got.
This got me thinking about a movie, I think it was Hellboy and some other movie, which said something like this:
"Man will have a void inside his heart, and he will try and gather all the riches of this world to fill that void, yet he will never be able to fill the void in his heart, because the void is infinite. Nothing he does can fill that void."
I realized it's the intelligence and knowledge which create these voids. The more you know, the more you know of things you lack, and this creates the gap between what you want and what you have.
Then this got me thinking about Chinese communist song which said "hard work and simple life".
People are always trying to become more complex and advanced, but what if secret is to become more simple?
We see that simple creatures are humble while advanced creatures are greedy.
This then got me thinking about Taoism. I keep wondering why Taoism is always right about everything, because Taoism already said all this.