Ramblings of Mind -7

Why is there a quest we seek, which defines the purpose of our lives?
The poverty, hunger, injustice and suffering all around us and more within; isn't it sufficient to shake us out of the stupor and futility in the way we exist?
Is it because the majority of us are still ignorant and selfish? We are unaware of the beauty and pathos in the life and live like a spider at the centre of the small web we create of our own ideas?
The society or to use a more collective word, humanity, at large is growing ever more intolerant, war mongering and self centred for its own existence.
As one wades through the news and even our immediate vicinity, one cannot help but notice the anger and cruelty that is so palpable. Our cultural signposts, of music, art and literature are no longer there to nourish the soul and detox it, but have become tools for profit seeking and hedonism.
A select few with the right of their might decide for the majority and hence their ignorance is further laid upon generations that are easily swayed to gross materialism and becomes even more grotesque images of their ancestral follies.

Will the answers come too late to save us from a doom?
A future where nothing exists but darkness and ignorance? Are we all fated to be damned as a race and then fade into oblivion.
As a human being isn't it our responsibility and role to safeguard the place we are dependent for our existence?
Guess each must find his/her own path. And as Buddha said "All compounded things are ephemeral. Work out your own salvation"

Some quesions to oneself

What is that we want so utterly in our lives? The meaning which we all keep searching for and the myriad mazes we run through, from jobs to relationships to material possessions; is there a meaning as such? To be ones master, is there a way.. All the religions and meditations and all?
Unless the desires inside are understood, which takes a very serious mind, and not the shallow, frivolous one which the most of us possess, there will be strife within and without....Things come and go and keep encircling...
When we look for a way out of the rut, perhaps there is eternal darkness or perhaps there are a hundred ways..
The easy ways which have disastrous ends and ones which simply wind onto themselves.. Is freedom a butterfly fluttering away from us that we rush behind it with so much energy that we forget it is like trying to cast a net to snare one's own shadow?
When there are so many questions and no answer seems suitable, then the soul must forge its own shield in the fires of life.. Iron must fight iron and Poison must kill poison...
And yet the only thing in the whole world worth possessing is a heart that understands with all humility and faith that everything is one and hence all things sentient and insentient ones too, need respect, love and  care...
When we choose to be selfish, is when we start getting caught in the quicksands and the more we struggle, the surer we are of sinking...