The Meaning of Life : My Personal Theory

The Meaning of Life

By now, it seems more than one of my friend has begun to realize his own views on the very questionable subject of life. Why are we here? How did we really come to be? Is there a reason for our being; are our lives parts of a master plan? They have all expressed their views on this, and have taken the subject much more seriously than I ever expected them to take things so seriously and truly think of their own views of life and such; but they have and for them I’m happy. It’s good to see them thinking about more meaningful things such as the deep meanings of things no one has yet to find the truth and exact meanings of. That is one of the main meanings of life, in my view; change, evolution, maturity. This must all happen so that life can reveal secrets and clues of things to come, of things that have happened, and things that are happening. Life itself can be seen in many ways. You could look it up in the dictionary, but I doubt it will show you a meaning you find understandable and well explained. Many could say that living things are things that are not dead. Dead things are not alive. No meaning of the word life itself there, is it? As for the creation of our kind and those around us; the plants, the animals, the fellow humans we see each day, I believe there to be a higher force that created the first of the first; the beginning of everything. However, I am not religious. Therefore, this higher force for me is not the god you may worship, or any of that sort. I believe that religion is simply a theory of how it began and what happened, even though some religions have proof of these things they say happened. But I ask myself, ‘what if this proof was not real? If it was fake, or made up?’ then I realize you cannot prove that it is real, or fake, really so I decide not to argue on matters. The meaning of life, the purpose of it, I believe, is to fulfill the Personal History of each and every single being. The term, Personal History, I learned about from a very dear writer to me, Paulo Coelho, in the book The Alchemist. A Personal History is the goal of one’s time here on earth. It is what may be called fate. In The Alchemist, the young man who finds out the reason for his life and the goal of it and he begins to think that he will not do what has been planned. That he won’t fulfill the Personal History that has been made for him. Then he realizes, after living a meaningless life that he cannot be happy until he begins to fulfill his Personal History. After reading the book I began to wonder what my Personal History could be, and what it may be for my friends and my family. Then I realized that fate hides itself from us for a reason. If we all knew what we were meant to do and why we are here, there would be no surprises. There would be no adventures; no excitement. We would know what was going to happen. Everything has a purpose, everything one does, everything one says, it all happens for a reason. So that for me, is the Meaning of Life, to fulfill your destiny. I also would like to say that you should take every chance you can to try something new. You may find yourself thinking in a brand new way, and seeing things in a view you never thought about.