Telos - an answer to why!

What is your 'why'?

The other day, 

my personal trainer asked me.

And I looked at her

through the computer screen,

blinded by her sheen, 

her aura!


"Yes, she must have one"? 

I thought. 

As is it not the biggest question

the very quest of this life!

I mean, this "Why’?

Why do you do what you do?

Why do you want to do it?

Yes, this ‘why’, the Greek term, ‘Telos’,  

'the why’,

which a guide, a guru, 

and in this case a trainer, asks of a human being.


What is your 'why'? 

 Your purpose,

Your objective in life.

"Isn't the purpose to find the purpose, and to pursue it in life?"


Ulysses of Dante’s Divine comedy or Homer's Odyssey

A hero, to pursue his dream, 

or a betrayer, 

to break the rules

to go beyond mortality!


Again, "Why?

And that is the question! 


But, do we ask this question of ourselves?

"Why, do you get up each morning?’ 

‘Why do you keep going/what keeps you going?’


And do we wait for the answer?

Or are we even prepared for the answer?



Telos: an ultimate object or aim, according to the online oxford dictionary 

“… moral purpose, a telos which provides the moral justification for the society.”

Telos in online oxford dictionary means: 

  1. an ultimate object or aim.
    "in the hedonistic life, people lose some moral purpose, a telos which provides the moral justification for the society"

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