Phases of Purpose

Purpose. Meaning. Destiny. Fate. They're all things we sometimes ponder about every now and then. Not always but sometimes. When a hangover settles in, middle of a high (or about to reach the end of it), when a long shift at work ends, when riding public transportation, working out or even out for a walk or drive -- eventually the thoughts about it settle in and for people of all walks of life, it varies based on the dynamics within their existence.

As a musician, writer, a Christian of sorts, husband and father, I ponder these things every day. If you're not one to identify with any spiritual faith of any kind, then that's one dimension of your existence that you don't have to ponder, although for me, I think on it daily. I contemplate when the Second Coming is to be, when all wrongs shall be made right, when the corrupt triangulating schema will fall apart (the Military-Religious-Financial triad aka Anti-Christ System), the resurrection and judgment, seeing the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and the ceasing of tears, pain and sorrow.

As a musician and writer, I understand but also constantly ponder the next means of artistic and literary expression, what angle, style and sound to come from as well as how soon or how long.

As a husband, it's all about digging deep and being the best I'm capable of being without losing myself entirely. The deep thing about marriage is that it isn't just buying your spouse through the State with a piece of paper that in their eyes you love each other. It goes beyond getting a tax cut on your paycheck just because you got the proverbial ball and chain fastened upon your procreative member. It involves finding common ground with your significant other as a means to further plant, nurture and grow a significant bond that had only begun and learning to sharpen each other's characters as a means to be a solid team.

As a father, it's about communicating, nurturing and teaching your child and understanding how much of yourself is in him/her, hence why there is even more of a need to help them. They're more than just a byproduct of making love and the development of cells into a living, breathing organism.

The tricky thing about the meaning of life for a person is that sometimes you have to dig deep and find that which you want to live for within and beyond all the circumstances that you live through. There is life before you get married, life during and most certainly, be it through divorce or death of the significant other, life after marriage. It's similar with being a parent. There's life before your child is in your life, life when he/she is in it and inevitably, life after your time of parenting, be it that he/she moves out to live his/her life or God forbid even death.

While it seems very sweet when people say that their reason to live is their child, family, spouse, religion or what have youbut what if those things, which your life clings onto, didn't exist in your life? What if I had never discovered how to be an author or musician? What if I had never met my wife? What if my daughter never came to be? What if there were no God to believe in? That is, my friends, the deeper of things to think about -- because sometimes, science, in all its magnificence,can't explain everything simply because not everything is like they read out to be.

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