Life (apart from religion)

We might find it complicated to get the exact meaning of of life. It might be a general question that we all seek to know at some stage of our life from ourselves. But when we are concerned with its significance and purposes such as “Why are we here?”, “What life is all about?”,“What is the purpose of its existence?”, Then it has been the subject of much philosophical , scientific and theological speculation throughout history. There have been a large number of proposed answers from every individual. Religions and science may get to these answers but thinking out of of the box and without depending on any other’s myth we all get to question ourselves personally once that what exactly our purpose is?

                  If we go deeper in our thoughts with life, apart from religion than this topic gets more fascinating, absorbing and it makes me wonder that like, (really!) what is its purpose? Why am I sitting here and writing about life from which I am going through, already. Well! That’s interestingly needed to find who we are and what our purpose is. Because, without knowing this we cannot explore our ambitions and make our imaginations vast and beyond the beauty and nature of this life to survive. 

                if I flash back to the past and try to figure out the word ‘life’ I will see that intense struggle has been made by humans. From the very beginning of human existence, we see that every individual has strived for survival and for his life to live as long as possible. Because death is that bitter truth from which we all naturally fears. We can see that we wait for a new born to come in his life, he lives his life, struggles and struggles everyday hard to make his life better and satisfactory. In every decades of his life he struggles for himself and his benefits. That struggle is going to make him comfortable and to prevent him from starvation to death and in the end he dies after giving up off his past work and struggles. Basically, the typical individual in an industrialized society follows this routine: birth, school, work, die. They may advance their field, but it doesn't really matter in the long run.

So, concerning with the nature of human beings, does only struggle matter to us? Does only advancement and comfort matter to us? These questions will be different for every individual because every individual thinks has different thoughts in the way or other. Life is about facing challenges, taking chances, fighting your fears, having control on your emotions in every aspect of life and let the life go on because we all know that life stops for none. While living this life we often think that everything that has ever breathed had to leave and have to leave once. Life is about aims and making those aims something more than success which is our dream. If talking about a materialistic person and questioning him about life, his answers will be no more than his aims, dreams and fulfilling them at the nearest stage of his life. He might say that life is nothing without these purposes and working hard to achieve them. But when we ask the same question from the person who believes in religion and oneness of God. He would know everything, why we are here and what our purpose is. Because a complete religion gives answer to you every question. God made you for a purpose and for worship. Religions give every detail of human life such as how we formed and how we are different in each aspect. Our thoughts,  fears, opinions, perceptions and even way of seeing is different from the other person with the same eyes. Questioning our life with religion no doubt is usual and is our foremost right but thinking beyond all this usual way of seeking knowledge might not take our imagination to that possibility where the real success and satisfaction is hidden.

                      

                             

                I have read on more than one occasion an atheist making the argument that goes something like this: if humans are the most important creation, why this universe is so vast? The argument is that is this the waste of space? Another way I’ve seen this argument is as follows: the universe is full of galaxies that are even beyond our capacity to ever observe? Furthermore, why is so much of the universe hostile to human life? Humans can’t live in overwhelming majority of the universe. Why is it so hostile if it were created for us? Life means a continual battle. These question might mingle up ones mind. Things are complicated as far as you are seeing them complicated. Life is most of experiences and feelings. Beliefs make our concepts real. If we do not have a belief in religion, feelings, surroundings, purposes of life than we won’t be able to understand anything and that will be great rush to live this life. Life might not be the bed of roses but if we believe in our comforts then it can resemble that bed of comfort. The more you question life the more it will make you wonder or might make your thoughts blurry and loom. Life is about growing, changing and continually trying to find who one is in our lives. Life is mysterious, intriguing and at times totally meaningless. These contradictory qualities of life make it unsetting and ambiguous. Nevertheless, change and progress speed forward. Life goes on and it waits for none.

For us, very often, we think importance is equal to power. When someone has power, they are more important than someone without power. But such notions of power and hierarchy are extra biblical ideas which we have read onto the text.

            The life we experience as human beings is very different from the life experienced by other creatures. We are organized and run for advancement. Another privilege among all creatures we are the greatest. We need to understand one word-freedom-freedom from all bondages. We are free to think and always think beyond our own imaginations!

Resembles  life  what  once  was  held  of  light,

Too  ample  in  itself  for  human  sight,

An  absolute self, an  element  ungrounded,

All  that  we see, all colors of all shade,

By encroach  of  darkness made?

Is  very  life  by consciousness  unbounded?

And all the thoughts,  pains,  joys of moral  breath,

A war-embrace of  wrestling  life and  death.