The Purpose of LifeBackgroundAfter the philosophical and ideological foundation of my youth had shattered, I made it
my voluntary duty to make this model, the Harmony Model of Life, just for my own
purpose of understanding life; but now it happened to come to this light. To help or stir; for
a smile or sneer... I don’t know... Whatever the case, I would not mind, since it has helped
me. Along this path I had to go through some spiritual, at the beginning bitter and at the
end an enlightening experience, which recently had its resolution in the freedom of my
mind, body and spirit.
After this state of existence, I had only to struggle with time to understand, relish and
quench my thirst for knowledge. Any knowledge, whose purpose is enlightening and
freeing the human species to celebrate its full liberty and perfection at the end, was
welcome. I am still at the beginning, though I feel the rest is more or less only a question of
time to bring the flower of knowledge to blossom. Along this state of mind, my object of
reference was Ethiopia - my roots- and my personal experience.
Fortunate and unfortunate, blunders and maturing, I had always in mind my involvement
and social engagement in a movement, which, irrespective of its healthy and noble cause
for social justice, obscured by a dogmatic “communist” ideology, was condemned to pass
through a historical period, which had swept a substantial section of the world and has
ended in our case with the sacrifice of very dear friends and thousands of the Ethiopian
youth with their dreams, intellect and energy.
Though the legacy of the last generation, which has consummated much of its energy
through celebrating traditions, contradictions, differences, partisanship and above all
violence, has still a firm grasp of the new one, now after almost three decades, I hope that
a new generation is coming up with a highly respectful energy for a change, development
and an aspiration to be part of the enlightened human movement and determine its own
destiny and live in peace. Moreover, hoping that all active political forces uproot and
denounce this legacy not only in principle but also in practice, they would step forward to
take hold of the right human spirit of today and commit themselves for the harmony of life
in the sense of resolving contradictions and differences, giving room for all shades of life to
live and work together for a higher purpose. Only beautiful rhetoric for peace and
democracy is not sufficient and should not however disguise the reality. In the recent past,
for those of us who had the fortune of having the least glimpse of genuine enlightenment
and are ready to learn from the dark experience, the reality counter to this spirit had made
us sick at heart, with the consequence of becoming passive, leaving it for history to take
care of its own course.
This was, instinctively my case until the end of 2004. During the last years, since I
stopped my active political engagement, in the course of my “search” (not research) for
truth”, at moments when the spirit of th