Meaning of life and innovation

Abstract

What is the meaning of life? What are we supposed to achieve in this life and what happens if we don’t? These questions blindfold us and often times we are not even sure of where to begin our search for the answers to these questions. We do not know what happens after death. This single issue puts enormous pressures on us. Sub-consciously many of us think that we have only one chance to live and therefore set forth in life with a sense of urgency to perform and achieve whatever we need to achieve. Even the greatest personalities in human history have had this pressure of performance. However, at some stage reality and wisdom dawns on us. For example, Alexander the Great’s life mission was to conquer the world. However, if you read about his final stages of life, you will come to a conclusion that he must have felt that he missed the larger meaning of life. He apparently insisted that while he was buried, his two hands must be kept in a stretched out position, out of the coffin, so that the world knows that even the greatest emperor had to go empty handed at the time of death. There is a German saying that the last shirt that one wears does not have a pocket (meaning nobody can take anything and go while leaving this world)................