Wisdom as the Sense of the Overall Goal of Human Life

If human life has a clear essential direction that it is meant to be lived in a precise way, how do we “really” know it? Yet, before we view such cause, it is significant for us to perceive what objective we really have in life. Though life is full of successive readjustments from a perceptual field affected by our whole social context, is being wise then rooted from grasping that we have such kind of awareness of our aims or purposes? There is a gist of wisdom which looks at wisdom as something basic or profound understanding of human life.

They say challenges await everyone. And underlying these challenges are our much anticipated goals, which is why we effort harder than usual, since we want to attain such endeavor. Still, the main idea remains unanswered. How do we really know it? Is it innate in our part? Well, perception varies in everyone. Nonetheless, a wise man is he who understands human life, the life he is living, the sphere he is moving in, and the veracity which he holds on. It is in the one who grasp human life in a bottomless way. That is when he already got the awareness of this basic purpose of human life.

Such awareness could be missed by a lot of people. Not in the sense that they are idiotic but the trials which bombarded them seem to mislead their idyllic purpose. They loose their senses midway without having accomplished such rarity. How? Since the world is deemed modern nowadays, many people enjoy their lives carelessly. We come across with the existing pop culture, technology, within-the-reach vices, and materiality which are so rampant all over. One or another, they’re tending themselves to be lagged. Perhaps they had a wrong address to the problems, yet, it takes a special insight to glimpse afar all these perplexing philosophies which come to assail us.

Not only does it presume discipline in our part but our wholeness in such goal. Insight and character which is vital for everyday living. If the first facet is the insight into the nature of this main goal of life, what follows it, is the discipline, which the self has to outweigh such plans. And it is inclusive of courage to face the ordeals ahead.

That should I say, if King Arthur ought to have such insight and discipline that is why he knows very well the overall goal of human life is to protect humanity and serve the kingdom, it is his orientation to life which made him wise. Because he is capable of distinguishing values which are superficial and those which are profound and he wisely directs the foremost drives of his life toward the basic understanding of those values which are most significant.

I definitely adhere to the view that the wise man not only knows how life is meant to be lived but he actually lives it that way. That within one’s existence, he plays the part in accordance to what he understands and believes in. The very essence that it is imperative to know oneself that he begins there.

That if at the end of the day, a person fails to comply with such goal and misses to understand what is there, since, such wisdom is not always present, his sensitivity is offhand. Thereby, deluding oneself into being a waste. Because understanding human life requires the mere perception of what it is being human and to outlive the various experiences and hardships which ought to pass our ways with the help of such insight and character.

The emphasis then is not on the “how to live life” but by only grasping the foundation what it is to live, the very substance of our purpose, a basic understanding about human life in a profound way we deal with it.

Wisdom as the sense of the overall goal of human life not only counters foolishness which is possible in human life, nonetheless, it appears to convey to us that gaining such basic understanding of life would lead us to be aware of what human life is ‘all about’. Insight and character through one’s discipline to be courageous permeates the essence of one’s goal in life. Indeed, the wise man is he who understands human life in a profound way, a basic understanding that is found in an awareness of the key purpose of human life.