Democracy

Okay, so this one has been sitting in my head for a while and I want to get it out before I lose the thread. What is the actual purpose of democracy? Not the textbook answer, not the answer we give in a school essay, but the thing that comes to mind when I actually sit and think about it honestly. And the immediate answer that surfaces for me is this: democracy is, more than anything else, a mechanism for the peaceful transfer of power.

Purpose

Okay. So this is going to be a difficult topic to write about. Difficult, because I need to do some soul searching to write about purpose, this thing that propels me to wake up, do something and navigate this journey called life . To put simply, what is the purpose that I seek in my life other than the act of mere survival? And i want to do all this in a way where i am not just doing virtue signalling or projecting an altruistic version of myself, but instead it becomes an attempt at trying to make an accurate and honest assessment of my thoughts on this topic so that it becomes a marker of this time that i can later revisit.