I have often pondered this question over the years. I will be honest I don't think there is a correct answer to this question. But I am sitting here thinking to myself that I must find the answer. So here I go, I am going to take a shot in the dark and say that I will find some interesting things by doing a good search.
Lets start with the Wikipedia answer which is the first thing I found in my search:
The meaning of life constitutes a philosophical question concerning the purpose and significance of human existence. The concept can be expressed through a variety of related questions, such as Why are we here?, What's life all about? and What is the meaning of it all?. It has been the subject of much philosophical, scientific, and theological speculation throughout history and there have been a large number of answers from many different cultural and ideological backgrounds.
The meaning of life is deeply mixed with the philosophical and religious conceptions of existence, consciousness, and happiness, and touches on many other issues, such as symbolic meaning, ontology, value, purpose, ethics, good and evil, free will, conceptions of God, the existence of God, the soul and the afterlife. Scientific contributions are more indirect; by describing the empirical facts about the universe, science provides some context and sets parameters for conversations on related topics. An alternative, human-centric, and not a cosmic/religious approach is the question "What is the meaning of my life?"
I think that I did a pretty good idea in guessing where the world would explore the meaning of life. Interesting fact is the Shakespeare thought that life was just a dream that we have not awaken from. But my question is a dreamer in this; can you dream during a dream? I don't know about you but I have dreams, some good others bad but still have dreams. I personally don't agree with this theory.
I think it is hard to wrap our minds around the idea that there is no meaning for us to be here. When I make someones day at that moment in time I feel like I have a reason to be here; but over time that feeling fades like the sunshine at dusk and the question still remains. But if there is a meaning to life is it our responsibility to figure out what it is? This is where the religious buffs would tell us that the meaning to life is to live a full life molded after the writing/teaching in the bible. Wasn't this book written by man? (more to come on that topic in a latter post) Here is where the religious peeps have the advantage; Once you die there is actually a plan for what will happen to you.
Isn't it scary to think that we may just live to die and that is it. This would make the most scientific sense. There is a lot in between however as in the living of life we make the choices on who we will associate with, what actions we will take, what choices we make, and plenty of other things. Then what happens, do the choices we make really make a difference.
I think our actions control more with what happens to the people around us more than we think. I like to look at this in the aspect of the butterfly effect. Even if there is nothing after we die (which may or not be true) I think our meaning or maybe purpose to to give the people behind us the privilege of making the same choices as we faced. I think our meaning is just that, not to make others fall into our beliefs but more to pave the way for them to make there own.
There is a lot of opinions when you do the google search; I know I just did it. One thing I always is that you go out the way you came in, in diapers. I know a little gross but most of the time its very true.
Just a thought to leave you with...............Live every day as if it were your last!!
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