Why are we doing what we are doing?

More often than not we find ourselves doing things, either at the influence of the parents, society or the people around us unknowingly, almost in a mechanical trance but something clicks and we start questioning the act itself. Makes one wonder, are we consciously doing what we are supposed to do or are we binded by unconscious inclination to do something without questioning why are we even doing such thing?. This, the space between what we are doing and knowing why we are doing, lays the purpose. Purpose, meaning, raison d'etre, whatever you may call it, it is that tiny thing which tells you everything that you are doing is justified, that each day you are spending in the pursuit of what you are doing is for a higher reason. Extending this line of argument and perhaps the emergence of religion starts becoming clear. Religion subsumes within itself, the reason for why we are doing what we are doing, a catch-all reference or a generic hack to make us actually do what we are doing, instead of being stuck in a perpetual state of analysis paralysis.Working backward from it, the place of religion becomes clear, it is the framework that helps you to think and gives you clear reasons or placeholders. Perhaps that's why your parents, especially your father is the first religion that you inherit, whatever you father says, becomes the word of law and a command and must be complied with, without any questions being asked. The issue arises when faith becomes blind faith, when everything is taken at the face value without independently diving deeper, well yes, it might defeat the purpose of framework but to test out the integrity of the framework, one has to stress test it by questioning it deeper.