The Meaning of Life
What is the meaning of life? That is
a question many people have been asking for centuries and one that has yet to
be answered. Almost everyone wants to find out what our time here on earth is
about. In the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven we are told
Heaven is all about answering that question and teaching us lessons about life.
One such lesson is, “That there are no random acts. That we are all connected.
That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a
breeze from the wind.” And while this is vague, that just allows us to
interpret it in our own way.
“That there are no random acts.” To
me, this just means that everything happens for a reason. Of course things like
becoming an epidemiologist and discovering a cure for a disease seem obviously
not random. But even supposedly insignificant things happen for a reason. For
example, if you stub your toe on the leg of a chair that is jutting out from a
table and you push it back in so that others would not stub their toes.
“That we are all connected. That you
can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from
the wind.” This section is more
difficult to interpret. However, I think it means that deep down we all care
for one another. Though you may not like someone, seeing them suffering will
usually make you sad and sympathetic towards them. Even with things like
someone getting nervous while talking in front of a class makes me feel bad for
them. And no matter how much we despise someone, we never truly want them to
die. When people die or are killed, we become filled with sorrow. But we can
also forgive anyone, no matter what they do. Recently nine innocent people were
shot and killed in a church while doing a Bible study, but some of the family
members and friends forgave the killer. They knew that we are in this together
and that we should love one another, rather than hold grudges. No matter how
much we hate someone, we can no more separate them from us than we can separate
a breeze from the wind.
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