Saturday, October 11, 2008

Seeking Meaning in the Inherent Meaninglessness of Life

Some great man once said that, “Dissatisfaction is the nature of existence”. And how true that is, no one is ever happy with what they have. Sometimes I wonder about the futility of striving for more. For a lot of what happens in life depends on luck. And people in general are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control.

There are moments in a life when for a split second, you think it’s all over and then with a little luck things go your way and you survive or maybe it doesn’t and you die. So who decides one person should live and another should die? Or who decides that a person should get all his hearts desires while others should struggle endlessly just to make ends meet?

Is there anything known as free will or is everything eventually karma? Is there really any point to existence? I sometimes feel like we are just innocents who are being slain to make way for something greater. I guess some of us just end up being collateral damage paving the way for unknown grander schemes….

-Poppy

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