Thoughts On Life
A wise man once said "Life has the name of life, but in reality is death" … The reasonable/linear side of me wants me to pick this quotation apart from a rational standpoint... The abstract/artistic side of me wants to say some stuff that probably will be understood by very few…well ill take a leap of faith here and go with the latter…try to stay with me on this one…
Every night I lay down and contemplate the events that just took place… was it a successful day? Did I accomplish all the things that I had hoped to? As I begin to analyze my actions and revisit the series of events that occurred within the last 24 hours, a wave of uncertainly will periodically invade my thoughts and feelings. Not the type of uncertainty that one may feel while walking into a test they failed to study for, but the type of uncertainty that one may feel when they are extremely quizzical about their purpose…their meaning…their reason for living. Now the above quote—said by Heraclitus—is what makes people experience the uncertainty i just talked about; Heraclitus essentially is stating that life has no purpose… that we are living to die, that our predominant purpose is death itself. If you know me at all by now… you would realize that mind will and always has refused to believe such statements. I refuse to believe that all human beings, no matter their motives, are just waiting to die. I refuse to believe that we have all been placed here on this earth by mere coincidence. I refuse to believe that this is all pointless… Now I'm not rejecting science or any religion in any sort of way… I'm just rejecting life's uncertainties…the type of uncertainty that is felt by the Atheist and Mormon alike, the type that even the most faithful can't escape… And the reason for this is because life, at its foundation, is uncertain. Virtually any sort of scenario that your imagination could conjure up, not matter how absurd…could happen within the next week. We can talk about this topic, debate about this topic or even start a war over this topic; we won't know what happens to us after we die, until after we die. Now i am a very religious person and do think i have a pretty good idea of what happens after death, but what i am essentially saying is that there will never be a commonly accepted answer to this..
However, I digress…let me get back to my theme of uncertainty. Socrates once said "I know that I know nothing"… two centuries from now this quotation will still hold true for even the most prestigious academic of that era… the reason being, life has questions that will never be answered… I don't care if we formulate a theory that perfectly illustrates how we got here, no one can or ever will be able to explain why we are here…
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