Life is all about prioritising. When I was younger I used to believe in the higher purpose but in the past decade I ended up realising that there is no higher purpose and this is due to the invasive political arrangement of this country and since this invasive political arrangement can be in a third-world country that we live in it is safe to assume that it would be present in the rest of the world too and thus existence of a higher purpose is out of question because people's choices and opportunities are rigged. It is the same as meaning, meaning doesn't exist. But then no one stops you from believing in a higher purpose or giving meaning to your life, at least visibly. In the past decade meaning has been drained out of people's lives. I do not feel as deeply about my interests like literature and science anymore and it is not because of age. But one should keep a semblance of meaning in their life and an idea of what their higher purpose could have been. The bottom line truths are very basic and they are family and money in any order you choose. You gain and develop skills throughout your life and then use it to earn money. Important thing here is to never give up a genuine interest. You studied something you didn't want to study for earning money it's not a problem, keep studying and training in what you were genuinely interested in and I say this because one, studying something that you are genuinely interested in is not hard work and is a sort of recreation and two, it retains meaning in your life. One has to understand the arrangement that we live in. The tyranny is individualised. And this means while one person feels like he lives in a dictatorship where even his personal choices are dictated, other feels like he is in a liberal utopia and another gets to practice impune anarchy mostly at the expense of others. A lot of people especially in the hinterlands live in an unannounced slavery and shit gets serious when one realises that freedom as basic as being able to feel the natural breeze on the skin can be withheld and, as I have observed, for no actual reason except baseless hatred and whims. I was a grateful person in general, despite having nothing to be grateful about at a personal level, what I survived, what I achieved, is solely due to my choices if you get the drift of this statement. This is the whole game, making people thankful and grateful that things are not worse and when one thinks of it one realises that it is a sort of blackmail and I wouldn't have been writing about it if I hadn't come to know how local the origins of the fate and the providence that blackmails people are. It's just your local mafia, politician and godman. When this reality comes to the fore the new age spirituality of being grateful collpases. And it is here you must prioritise. You know what higher purpose you would have chosen so despite it being redundant in the political setting we live in one must acknowledge it, one must align oneself to what gives meaning to one's life. What I have learnt in the past decade is that you can't help people in this nation anymore, their fates are already sealed. The disease of the society that was latent in Congress administration is now for all to see. Because Congress or BJP were never the real administration.