…Sitting in a crowded public library, studying Swedish and thinking about everything that’s been going on lately, in my tumultuous life, in this crazy world, wondering if this all that I see is for real, are we all living in some sort of a dream, or maybe even a nightmare?
And what is the point of living after all, if we have to suffer every day, and then, at the end, die alone and stupid.
We were born stupid, we live our boring lives in stupidity and ignorance, no matter how educated we think we are, and then we die stupid, thinking and believing how smart we were.
Maybe our lives are just some sort of a universal parody?
Maybe the whole universe is laughing at us and the way we live and think how proud, smart and important we think we are.
But in fact, we are only a small drop in a vast ocean, no greater than a small ant that walks under our feet. Our lives are of no more importance than lives of other living beings, plants or animals, or even from the rocks, the mighty river or a sand dust.
So, what do you think is the true meaning of human life, or any life whatsoever?
I don´t know. I really don´t. Maybe there is no meaning, maybe we are only fooling ourselves thinking that there has to be some meaning in everything. Maybe we just die and that´s it. Nothing comes after that.
But why do you come to this world and go through all of that misery if there is no meaning in anything you think, say or do? You know that there is a reason for everything, nothing comes without the purpose.
Tell me, is there something in this world that makes you happy, really happy? Is there something you want to do before you die, someone you want to meet?
Maybe, but I´m not sure if that is really possible, not now, in my situation.
What situation? Why is your bad situation any different from the bad situations of other people in this world? Everybody has “to bear their own cross”.
Well, in the last couple of years I had two goals or wishes that I wanted to fulfill before I die. One was to walk around the whole world, as a walking adventurer, to explore the world in all of its glory. Another one was to become a teacher, a spiritual kind of teacher, and teach people to become smarter and more creative, to try to eradicate ignorance, superstition and prejudice.
And what prevents you in fulfilling these quests?
Maybe I´m just too old and not quite capable to walk so much as I used to do in the previous years. And whom will I teach anyway? Where are my students? What will I teach and where?
Time will be your only guide and teacher. And remember, students come only when the teacher is ready for teaching. If they are not here, by your side, it means you are still not ready.
But even if I manage to make some sort of a school in the future, as I would like, what is the real purpose of that, and in general, what is the purpose of our lives after all?
The only real purpose of human life is to create and be created. Because this is the only thing you can really do. No matter how long you live, you have to die one day, as you said it before. So, when you do die, you will leave everything on this planet, even your own physical body. Nothing is really yours. What ever you have in your life is borrowed, your physical body, your parents, your friends, every material possesion you have. When you leave this place, you will keep nothing. So, only thing that you can do is to live your life as best as you can, use all of your skills that were given to you by the mighy forces of nature, and hope for the best. Your destiny is to create something good and constructive that will stay behind you, for the next generations, for which you will be remembered forever.
Remember, CREATE AND BE CREATED!
(Cover Image & Source: Meaning of Life @ The Great Courses)
Many questions to ponder. One would think our purpose is to leave our world a better place than when we arrived on it. Your one comment lead me to something my mother had told me once, when you are 20
you look back at how stupid you were, when your 30 you look back at 20 and can’t believe how stupid you were and it continues even when you reach 80 as I have you look back and you realize, even with all that knowledge that a life teaches you. You still are stupid as you die. My mom wasn’t and educated woman
But she was a very wise one.
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Unfortunatelly, that is true. No matter how educated we think we are, there is always something more that we don´t know, which means we can never be smart as we want to be. Meaning, all of our lives we stay stupid, i.e. ignorant of many things that are out there. I remember, when I used to read a lot of books, at the end I said to myself, the more books you read, the more you realize how stupid you are…
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Great realization!! There was a blog post from someone on here that said too many people mistake the symbol for what it is trying to symbolize. We put ourselves in a box and that is the stupidest thing we can ever do! Like I enjoy science and history, but those things can either be extremely limiting or extremely mind blowing. I think it all comes down to the way we create our perceptions in the ways we interact with life.
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The only thing that we humans must undestand is that we are here, on this planet for a very short time and our mission and duty to the universe is to achieve as much as constructive and creative things and ideas as possible. As I said many times before, we were created to create!…
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I disagree, the only real purpose of human life is to love and be loved. It doesn’t matter how much money we make or what material things we own because they are just things. Yes our body is a vessel and we live with pain, but love is one thing that makes being human so wonderful. Anyone can have it and when you die it lives on in the memories of your loved ones. Stay safe in this difficult time. ❤
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Isn´t love an essential part of every human creation? We can´t create anything if we are in hate, can´t we? No matter if you create/make a science project, masterpiece of art or a human child, you do it with love. If you make something in hate, you can not call it creation, but destruction…
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Absolutely!!! Excellent topic! Have a great day.
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10ks! U2! 🙂
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Yeah! We are here to create something..
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Yes, but most of the human population is not aware of that, unfortunatelly, so we continue to exterminate ourselves, along with other divine creatures of this planet and universe, because of our own stupidity and egoism…
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I like this Ianus. Who is in this conversation?
I think Plotinus said something like we reveal ourselves to ourselves in our creativity. But what aspects of ourselves might we see reflected back in our creations? What aspect of yourself did you see in this creation? Who is in this conversation?
Very interesting post. Thank you.
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In fact, this is a sort of an internal monologue, between my consciousness / subconscious and my superconsciousness…
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Yes, understood. Thankyou.
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You´re welcome! 🙂
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Your destiny is to create something good and constructive that will stay behind you, for the next generations, for which you will be remembered forever.
Remember, CREATE AND BE CREATED!
I really like the way you think. A deep thinker. You engage your conscious and subconscious mind which brings out your spiritual and creative side. Your thoughts reminded me of a quote: “Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.”
— William James
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10ks for your constructive comment, and especially for providing extra information about this subject, about William James and his work, that I didn´t know and that I will look for later… 🙂
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Thank you for your post! I like the dialogue you have with you inner self!!
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10ks! Yes, I always find interesting to think about and to write something that is considered different and strange to this world of routines and progressive ignorance…
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