July 28th, 2010
There are people that think that once we are dead it is all over. I am one of those. I am commonly known as an atheist. My viewpoint however is just a bit different than your average atheist. Most of us can agree that we can not live forever, no matter what we do. Most of us ask, "What is the purpose of this life if there isn't a God?" Some say that there isn't any purpose to this life. I have my own answer to this age old question, as I'm sure all of you do as well. Our purpose in this life is to be the absolute best we can be in the short time given to us. We are here to live out our potential, whether for good or ill, that our parents came together for. We change this whole planet with every breath we take. If you move a single grain of sand in a desert, you have changed the face of this planet. It is possible to live forever, because though memories grow dim and die in the great veil we call time, we change our planet and everything else that inhabits it. In that sense we live forever in the amazing loom of fate. We are the great stewards of this world and our fate. We are the endless. Not gods, not perfect beings, not masters of death and time. Merely endless. What we do changes the fate of the human race and this planet. We change the fate of billions by waking up in the morning. What are you going to do today?
I wish I had the courage to answer this question. But I don't. So I will humbly ponder the question and step into the day.....
ReplyDeletewe know what we have to do...but sometimes we do not want to do it...we are lazy...we doodle..etc but there is always a thing to do...it may be a small insignificant thing...a thing nobody would care about it...but we have to do that...
ReplyDeleteAnd I wish I had an answer to this question and maybe like Sandy it's because I don't have the courage, maybe I've been fumbling around for the answer for so long, I'd forgotten the question. Whatever, your words have stirred something in the pot and that's a good thing! Thanks, Christopher! Have a good week!
ReplyDeleteSylvia
Your post will go with me today (hopefully longer than that.)
ReplyDeleteI read your "ABOUT ME." I'd say you are already a writer.
Wonderful.
I always look with amazement at this material world so changeable, so fleeting, transient, where time and space are only dimensions, and I can't help thinking of a perfect matrix which has generated it.
ReplyDeleteHave a nice Wednesday!
Powerful. Inspiring.
ReplyDeleteThanks.