I wonder if existential questions are as common as I think they are. I don’t mean the depressing ones – just the ones that make us truly ponder over the point of anything we do in life. Sometimes they hit me so hard that pretty much everything feels pointless in the bigger context. What, after all, is the end result of all our collective actions? Every single day we all toil and hustle through life with an underlying assumption that one fine day it’ll all make sense – but does it really? Is a sense of peace towards the end of our lives the final destination we are headed towards?
If there is a creator or a force behind all creation, what are they gaining from our hustle through life? What has God gained from the centuries of war and peace that has plagued the planet? Given that every life form other than trees and plants are consumers on the planet, what higher purpose could we possibly be serving?
As much as I want to believe that the journey is itself the destination, I cannot help but often wonder what we are headed towards. So many lives are cut down in the prime of life around us – what about their purposes? What of the incredibly staggering number of unfair instances that don’t abide by the laws of spirituality or philosophy on this planet?
Dear Lord, its depressing to think of the larger picture sometimes. Perhaps it is so because the material reality is quite inadequate at times and offers no real fulfilment to the soul; and the bigger question looms in. What is the spiritual realm playing at? Why are we relevant to it and why is it important that we live the certain way?
~ Phew ~
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