THE BIG QUESTION

So it's 3:09 in the morning, and I want to get to bed, but i can't because my mind is filled with too many thoughts. To many questions, and not enough answers. I just read a friends blog on his view on life and that got me thinking, again like many times before about "The Big Question". The one no one has an answer too, the one everyone wants an answer too, the one question that gives us humans definite purpose:

What is the meaning of life?

Ironic how no one has found the definite answer to this question. The true meaning behind our existence. We have meaning for everything, reasons for everything. Meaning of work is to earn money, earning money is to live, more money you make, better your standard of living, better your standard of living, the easier your life is, easier your life is the happier you are provided you find your "one true" companion to share it with. Are these not the goals of all humans or at least most? So why is life so complex? is it because we always want more? or is it because ultimate happiness can never be obtained? As a specie can we ever reach being fully satisfied and fill every void or gap we have in our mind, body and soul?

A lot of people have a common answer to the big question. To be happy. But what if ultimate happiness can never be obtained? What do you do when you enter a part of your life where you are not happy with it. Can you convince yourself to be happy? will this last? I mean happiness is a tricky thing. As humans relationships between people are known to bring lots of happiness. Friends, family, life partners, whatever; human interaction is a huge source of happiness. Then again it is always a huge source of sadness, the ones that make you this happy also have the power to make you equally sad. So when your sad, and I mean really sad, then what’s the meaning of life. The one universal answer to fit the one universal human question. Is the meaning simply to do what it takes to be happy again?

To me the big answer has to be universal with no exceptions. Maybe the human brain is not possible to derive an answer. However I believe I found one, at least enough to get me to sleep for tonight.

Life is on a time line. We are all dieing, some at different rates, different points in time, but in time we will all die. Meaning of life must include this phenomenon. But like finding happiness, and in the same degree sadness that comes from the same source; maybe we can find the meaning of death, and that will give us the source of the meaning of life. So, what’s the meaning of death? Omitting after death, what is the meaning of death in our world and life the moment you die? Memory of who you are, the uniqueness and essence of your aura is what people will remember you by. You will be remembered by what your life meant. What people believed your life meant. Even if they don't know the meaning of their own. So with this I believe the meaning of life is simply to live. Happy or sad, love or no love, good or bad. Because our life is timed, limited and temporary. The meaning is simply to use it. Any way possible. To do an act of the will and choose to live life no matter what. To stick with it even in the bad times, even in times where you are unhappy. You live, until something out of your control stops you from doing so. On the way you enjoy it as much as you can, and follow your own personal set of values.

Bringing me to my last point, how meaning of both life and love are co related, or at least similar. In life and love you can be happy, in that same setting you can also be just as sad, the balance can swing just as much on both sides but as a conclusion I believe that the answer to the meaning of both of these virtues lies in the will of a person. We must choose to live and love through happiness as well as sadness, good and bad, sickness and in health, until we die. When you are at a point in your life that you hate, remember the willful vow you made to live it, when you’re at a point of sadness, remember the willful vow you made to love.

With all of this, the meaning of life is to live, and the meaning of love is too love. Both of these No Matter What. Only we as individuals have the power to make that choice. But with that choice made we have an answer, simple, but an answer none the less, an answer to work for and never wonder about. An answer that will always give us a reason to live, love and do so positively no matter the obstacles in the way.

Love life, Live for love, Choose to live, Choose to love.