Purpose of activity in life

I have started doing my eMBA in the university of McMaster and I was asked to write a bio. In the end, I wrapped it up with some poems and I am going to share that part here.

Regarding my conspicuous flair and tremendous enthusiasm in literature, I can express my feelings towards life, and in particular professional and academic life, by some poems. I myself occasionally say poems and I suppose I can convey my message better in this artistic and poetic form.

The Persian poet, Saeb Tabrizi (and in a similar poem and different arrangement, Kalim Kashani) says in one of his amazing poems that the essential purpose of living is being active and exuberant. I recite his poem and translate it into a sort of rhyming English which goes:

For not halting and idling, we are alive and we strive

As waves, in stillness, we can neither thrive nor survive

The great Pakistani poet, Iqbal Lahori who has numerous fantastic Persian poems has a poem which fabulously demonstrates the essence of life by a simile. I recite the poem and translate it into a kind of rhyming English version that says:

An idle shore sadly says

However, I have lived for years

It is not clear at all

That who I am after all

An agile wave darts sharply

Says, I am free and lively

For I am mobile and active

Otherwise, I will no longer live

The great Persian poet laureate, Rumi (Molavi) who has been my ever-epitome of inspiration says beautifully and metaphorically in one of his magnificent poems that our intention for living and in particular working should be something precious and permanent. If we set our goal for the sublime, we gain lesser things such as money as a direct result. I, finally, try to recite this superb poem into a sort of rhyming English which goes:

Someone who intends to plant a seed

Is supposed to plant wheat, indeed

Hay will come as a subsequent

So sowing it is all inconsequent

For they would neither reap hay

Nor could they harvest wheat, anyway

Socialize with people, assimilate into society

Seek popularity, popularity, popularity