What is the Purpose of Life?
abracad, · Categories: spiritualityAt some point or other we all contemplate the purpose of life. To a degree our very existence is a search for life's meaning.
Life is not about acquiring money, assets, status, power... It's not about the house we own, the car we drive, the position we hold. That's not to say these things don't matter, they do - to a degree. But in time, as our body ceases to function as it inevitably will, these things fade into nothingness.
No it is not such things that form the purpose of life. Ultimately, all that we carry to the next stage of our existence is the experience we gain.
In the immortal words of Shakespeare, "All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts..."
Just as the actors of stage or screen are not the characters they assume so we are not the roles we play for this short lifetime.
Our earthly (particularly western) measures of success are flawed. In truth the vagrant is no less successful than the city gent, possibly more so, though their paths are very different. For whom shall take the greatest experience beyond the grave?
The moral - stop chasing things that don't really matter and start seeking the experience you were born to receive.
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