What Is The Meaning Of Life?

What Is The Meaning Of Life?

Many human beings on Planet Earth are hell-bent on trying to understanding the meaning of life. Why we can observe the Universe and interact with others around us. Why the world is like this, and not completely different. It’s a deep thought, and a question we humans will all ponder at some point in our life, and are yet to give a Universal answer.

I’d like you for a moment to contemplate life. The differences between beings which can control its movements, see the world around it, smell, and feel emotions, and physical objects which are simply controlled by physical and natural laws which make up our Universe. It’s something phenomenally difficult to truly understand, and I believe the only way we can possibly answer this question would be to understand how everything came to be. Why the Universe was created, whether the Universe is infinite, whether there are other Universes, or planets with life on them, and indeed, why there is something rather than nothing.

But a true theory of creation does not yet exist, or rather, a theory of everything. We may never understand why there is something rather than nothing. Or even, what nothing truly is. If there was nothing, if nothing existed, if life did not exist, light, dark, space, never existed. Something I’m even having difficulty trying to contemplate whilst writing this, rather than just understanding the words, try and visualise. There wouldn’t even be darkness, as darkness is merely an absence of light and there would indicant that something does indeed exist.

The fundamental question we come to involves the potential existence of God. Has there always been something rather than nothing? Has existence indeed, always existed? If God exists, has he always existed? Or, can be created out of nothing?

Those I believe are the questions which, if answered, provide the answer for everything. Only one must be answered, two will provide us with a Universal purpose to everything that exists and that is in existence, and two will simply prove that we are simply products of chance, evolution, and the beautiful work of the Universe.

I’ll return to the meaning of life, or at least the meaning of life within our lifetime. I say this because, as you know, science is quickly evolving, however we cannot be assured that we will discover a theory of existence which can somehow be proved beyond all doubt and explains exactly how everything came to be. This may be achievable if more of us devote more time to maths and science and more of us focus on this question from that angle, rather than settling for a simple one word answer, God. (FYI, I have personally decided to follow this route, and wish to team up with people in the future who have similar goals.)

A true understanding of the world around us isn’t something to be taken lightly. If people truly accept that there is no Universal purpose to everything on Earth, then why would they continue living as they do? With the new found understanding that they are not immortal, that they will not go on to live in some utopian society in a mystical white land with a deity which they have served to faithfully (or not) in their lifetime.

So, we now have to contemplate what makes life currently worth living. Goals, achievements, love, relationships, family, and peace. If there is no absolute purpose to everything and every being in existence, then we can at least have our own purpose. Our own goals. Our own life.

I think the only thing intelligent life forms such as humans, (at least intelligent enough compared to the species on Earth), can settle for their own purpose in life. That they have been given an opportunity to experience the beautiful Universe around them, whether by chance or by intelligent design is no longer relevant. It’s a compelling and motivationally thought to think that this is simply one opportunity to achieve your own person goals and achieve that purpose in life, and that procrastination is simply one less day you have to live, wasted.

If you can reach old age, and simply accept that you have achieved those goals you have set out to achieve, you have understood the true passion we humans have the ability to experience, and instead of simply believing money to have value, that purpose in life is true value, passion is a true value, and love is a true value. Vanity is not.

You must act now. Stop procrastinating, stop sitting on the fence between what you want, and what you don’t. Act now, and begin on the journey which you can set for yourself because that is your right, and that is what makes life worth living. Do not reach old age and find you have not achieved what you wanted to achieve. I implore you to act immediately, and maintain that motivation throughout life. There is nothing worse than regret, especially in life where one is not immortal, where one simply has one chance to achieve what they believe is their passion.

If this is achieved, then death can be accepted as a peace offering. No yesterday, no tomorrow, the soft green grass blowing in the wind above, the earth beneath our feet, and what we have achieved lives on. This can never be taken away from us. Whilst you exist, achieve what must be achieved, do what must done, and what the time comes, accept death as a friend. Death should not be feared, as death is an amiable being. He has come to relieve you of your suffering, the worries of life, and the complexities of the modern world. We must therefore concentrate on the goal we have attached to our live, and when this has been achieved, you can simply, just be at one with the world.