Is there a purpose for my existence? I have heard that life is meaningless and worthless if not lived for others. Is that what makes our existence so meaningful? I don’t know. Maybe it’s the pretentious being of a fragment of my memory that tells me to keep at it, to work harder, to try my best, to live for everyone around me. But what if that is not completely true? Maybe we are searching for acceptance. Maybe we are searching for companionship so that we don’t have to face this world alone. Maybe we are searching for a way to avoid the loneliness and pain and suffering. If that were to be true would the cause of one’s existence to be in jeopardy to conflict the purpose of living for others? I don’t believe that nothing should be done for purely self purpose as it would not lead to the happiness one desires but that doesn’t mean that it can be completely ignored either. What lays the question is that our existence is contradicting between the level of importance we give to others and ourselves and what to do for them and for ourselves. If we can keep working ourselves to help others all the time we wouldn’t get time for ourselves and the same would go as vice versa. Maybe there is no meaning to life, maybe there is. I can’t tell. It’s too hard for me to judge what the future holds for me but I would really like to experience what the world has to give, share and enjoy, I believe if we all work at it, we all can reap the benefits such as enjoying together, sharing the burden and sadness together, living a part of this important world. Every single life is important and that is why God chose to create it, but still there are wars and calamities. But unless we don’t understand the sadness how will be understand the joy? If we don’t understand darkness how can we see the light? If we don’t understand failures how can we cherish the success?
Every day we learn something new and every day we make mistakes, even though we learn from our mistakes, it still is an essential part of our process of existence. Since after we die we do not know what is next, we might be souls who would go to heaven or hell, we might be wandering spirits looking for meaningless things, or we might form into nothingness where nothing begins or ends. Since life is a short trip, enjoying your way to age is inevitable though some people may choose not to enjoy it. Some find the precious life given to us as a burden; some may treat it as a thing to throw away at some uneventful occurrence. Some choose to cherish every moment they have. Because the last 60 seconds you spent will never return. Something my mom used to tell me since I was a child is that ‘the time you have right now is the time you can use “right now”. When that time goes, it will never come back’. It made me think today that every second we spend in our life is actually every second closer we are coming to leaving this world since everything that has begun will end eventually. It is true they say that nothing lasts forever. This may be true since we do not know anything that has been there forever, memories fade away, beauty and money will be gone one day, people might remember you as a great person but who will be the one who really and actually knew you? It will be the person whom you have actually spent time with, the person who has been along with you, it might be for 3 years or 30 years, what matters is the person accepting you for your own being and not for what you can do or have done. We might all end up doing something great in life and receive satisfaction from it. But we only get true happiness from being who we actually are. It really sounds like a cliché but it’s not a lie either. What we all in this world are searching for is not just happiness since we would need to experience sad events too to realize happiness, but we are searching for a meaning to our life. And that is probably what you are searching for too.
Every day we learn something new and every day we make mistakes, even though we learn from our mistakes, it still is an essential part of our process of existence. Since after we die we do not know what is next, we might be souls who would go to heaven or hell, we might be wandering spirits looking for meaningless things, or we might form into nothingness where nothing begins or ends. Since life is a short trip, enjoying your way to age is inevitable though some people may choose not to enjoy it. Some find the precious life given to us as a burden; some may treat it as a thing to throw away at some uneventful occurrence. Some choose to cherish every moment they have. Because the last 60 seconds you spent will never return. Something my mom used to tell me since I was a child is that ‘the time you have right now is the time you can use “right now”. When that time goes, it will never come back’. It made me think today that every second we spend in our life is actually every second closer we are coming to leaving this world since everything that has begun will end eventually. It is true they say that nothing lasts forever. This may be true since we do not know anything that has been there forever, memories fade away, beauty and money will be gone one day, people might remember you as a great person but who will be the one who really and actually knew you? It will be the person whom you have actually spent time with, the person who has been along with you, it might be for 3 years or 30 years, what matters is the person accepting you for your own being and not for what you can do or have done. We might all end up doing something great in life and receive satisfaction from it. But we only get true happiness from being who we actually are. It really sounds like a cliché but it’s not a lie either. What we all in this world are searching for is not just happiness since we would need to experience sad events too to realize happiness, but we are searching for a meaning to our life. And that is probably what you are searching for too.
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