So what is the purpose of life. with safety, prolonging life,
obtaining sex, intimacy and gaining knowledge in mind, you simply
spend your life and it all ends with death.
In some cases, death can be prevented. Whether it is by time
traveling or aging preventing, if it is achieved, it would be best.
You have to thus plan to achieve this aim.
Putting aside the issue of death, we look at life itself. It is
simply the summation of everyday of our life. a point to be noted
in life is suffering. Everybody has some differences in their life
encounters. Some are lucky, some are not. This is because human
body is exposed to pain when it is injured. There, in accidents,
crimes or misfortunes, some people will live with excruciating
pain.
It is a bad thing that pain and sufferings exists but we have to
accept it. that is the way life is characterized.
Putting aside the issue of suffering, we come to see how we should
spend our life during normal period of our life. A common advice is
to have a wide variety of interest in life and form good
relationships with people. This will ensure that you have make full
use of your life. forming good relationship and wide interest in
different activities has to be learnt. That is why I have
emphasized on the importance of knowledge. Its application in life
is unlimited.
For work, it is primarily used for earning a living and saving for
retirement. Whenever your money is used up, you have to come out of
retirement and work again. The correct attitude towards work is to
treat it like a hobby. Communicating with boss, planning with your
colleague and writing proposals are all a kind of pastimes. Because
people are sometimes nervous in their work, they fail to notice
that work is also a form of hobby.
We must not work all the time because the nature of work is very
narrow because it will always be based on some company aim. Outside
work is a more interesting place called life and the whole world.
Work on your life in this world because it is the biggest and thus
most interesting work it is going to be.
Life is made up of parts. The twenty minutes spent on a chess game,
the half an hour you spent in the park are what life is about. Do
things that are pleasurable to your body. Remember that pleasure
can come in all size and shapes. It may be the pleasure of cuddling
your girlfriend, the pleasure of learning new language or the just
simply enjoying a funny show. Again, these things have to be
learnt, studied and researched.
life is also reality. And in reality, there is war, sickness,
death, torture, gangsters and accidents. Sometimes, these things
happen to you or your family and the only solution is to accept it.
in Buddhism, it teaches us to not to react with fear and nervous
towards these bad things because they are facts of life. one phrase
sums it all, in the middle of the storm you sits and observe and
run if you need to.
Our suffering also comes from our wrong personality and attitudes.
Human is born to be erroneous and inefficient. Therefore, we should
carve out a piece of our time from work, play and family for
ourselves. Only when you have become a great person will your work,
playing and family can also be great too. All of us have many rooms
for improvement and we have been leaving them in the closets for so
long that we never dare to open it.
Lastly, life events is transient. You spent time laughing with your
friends yesterday but as you sit alone in your room, you could not
go back to happy moment again. Some people may thus dread life
because things are transient in life. they want permanent things
and are lazy having to work for happiness. Again, I know that it is
bad that we could not stop time in fun times but we must not be
disappointed by it. again, acceptance is the key.
Also, life needs to be planned from now all the way to the day you
die. All life insurance always talk about the financial management
in your entire life to death so it also true for other aspects of
your life like your goals, relationships, yourself and your
activities. Because it is so big, it is a very large plan indeed
and it is revised regularly. What you do today, and in the coming
few weeks is connected to your whole life, so dont just lived each
day as it comes.
With all the above advices, you live, you live happily, knowing
that you can control some things and not others. However, if bad
things befall, which it can only to you and you only if you are
unlucky enough, you have to accept it and just live as best as your
situation allows you to. Death will pick you up one day unless, you
found a way to skip past it.
There is most likely to have no god, no heaven and afterlife. If
you believe and spend your time doing things to achieve it, suit
you. decide for yourself think for yourself. for me, I have no
found any concrete evidence for these few things so I shall just
focus all my energy on life itself.
