Inspiration In Our Life

Inspiration is a necessity in life to make progress or be opened. 

 

Inspiration in our life mostly defined in terms of emotions or thoughts, or a confluence of both emotions and logical thoughts, that induces us to do something or create in life. We can differentiate inspiration and motivation. Inspiration is something creative which is not necessarily intended for success or profit or benefit or returns or rewards, but is from a purely liberal approach of doing things for just things sake. In short , inspiration is not result oriented approach but a genuine creative feeling or thought that many time leads to innovations and new methods in life.

 

Whereas motivation is something which we can say is result oriented thought with an intention of making success or profit or benefit or returns or rewards. Motivation is an utilitarian or secular idea as opposed to a liberal idea of inspiration. We will usually find the term motivated being used when we talk about setting targets as in gaining high marks or high grades in our studies, or when we talk about setting targets for individual team members in a marketing firm, etc. Mostly, motivations have some intentions backing them.

 

What inspires someone may not inspire another. Therefore inspirations are purely personal and very much individual specific. What we are inspired at present our basic personality or characteristics and the degree of wisdom we possess at this wisdom. To cite a very common and gross example, we will find young men inspired by young women. But as they grow in wisdom with age, they turn to other subtler aspects of life. Therefore the inspiration that we get in young age is just a superficial attraction for the other and can be defined as quasi inspiration. A true inspiration lasts for a life time or even more.

 

In English language, there is a saying that goes as following:

 

"Read not times, read eternities"

 

True inspirations are based on subtleties of life. 'Times' refers to passing, fleeting, superficial or gross aspects of life like everyday fashion, trend, news, commercial movies, commercial advertisements, other utilitarian subjects that are merely pursued for monetary benefits, power, position, luxuries and comforts, instant pleasures and sensual enjoyments, materialism, etc. Whereas, 'Eternities' refers to subtler subjects like philosophy, spirituality, arts, crafts, humanities, etc which are based on liberal approach towards life. By liberal approach, I mean that "doing a thing just for that thing's sake" and without any other utility tags attached to it in life.

 

For me, peers are my  inspiration. They all are doing various type of social work to change our typical society. It’s an inspiration that gives the ultimate purpose of my life like the absolute ideal of life called Self Realization and relative ideals of life like personality development or self improvement, along with proper methodology, techniques, well defined exercises or practices for the achievement of the ideal. 

 

An inspiration must be evolutionary, benevolent to the individual. It must help for the true welfare and development of society or humanity.

And Inspiring Bangladesh is working for this.