What is Life? (Are you happy now?)

What is Life?

 

How to live a good life? So many people in this world live without happiness and satisfaction or they just believe so. They live lives mundane and banal. They are inured to the idea that their lives are meaningless. No purpose of life, no direction of life and no meaning of life. They’ve concluded that life is just enjoying what they have until die. To do that, they use alcohol, pleasure and their achievements. But the real question is “Are you truly happy deep in your heart?” If you are not, you have to figure out how to change your life. How to live happy. There are three things you need to do to find the answer.

 

First, Question your life!

As we grow old, we start pondering upon life. What is life? Who am I? Why am I here? Have you done that before? Or Are you doing that now? Then, you are on the right track. You know how to do it. If you haven’t, start thinking about it from now on. You must have a definition of life, and you must be living your life based on that definition, so it’s fair to say your life will be or have been shaped from your definition of life. No matter what your definition is if you are truly happy then that’s probably a good definition, hopefully. If you are not, you must redefine life. If you’ve become negative enough to believe that life is just about suffering and anguishing. Your definition of life would be “a distasteful journey that ends with death.” Are we born to suffer and die? No purpose? That’s just pity. How can we define our life well? This question brings us to the second point.

 

(Second,) Think about why and how you should live your life? Or why and how humans are to live?

Some people just think they are living because they are born. Nothing in this world exist without purpose including what people made. If there were no trees, humans can’t live because there would be lack of oxygen in the air. Trees change carbon dioxide into oxygen with photosynthesis. If there were no dust, there would be less rainfall as rain is created when water molecules in the air gather around particles of dust. Then, why do people exist? What are we supposed to? Are we just made to grow up, study, make money, bear children and die? Are we here to enjoy life for 80-100 years and die? To figure that out, we need to go deep. Why and how the world is created. This question seems to be unpractical and unrealistic, but your life will be shaped based on how you deal with this question. If you believe the world is created out of nothing, then all you have to do is making you feel happy at all cost, but you don’t want others to think you are selfish, so you should act righteously, do good deeds on human standard. Then, we should ask where did this human standard and this good and evil thing come from? If the world came from nothing, no good, no evil. But people have idea on good and evil. For example, when we see Hitler and Mother Teresa, we can tell who is good, and who is evil. How can we tell?

 

(Third) This dilemma brings us to the last question. Do you believe in God? Or yourself?

People are reluctant to talk about religion cause it’s too serious and sensitive to some people, but it’s an inevitable topic when it comes to life. At large, there are two positions about this issue. There’s God, and there’s no God. Depending on the answer to this question, individual lives, societies, countries and the whole world are shaped. If we believe there’s no God, humans are the most important beings in this world. So, as long as people are happy, everything’s good. What’s right or wrong depends on whether people like it or not. As long as other people are fine, you can do anything you want. Did you find your current happiness in this way? If there is God, God is the most important being in this world. What’s right or wrong is up God. Also, since God is the one who created us, our happiness is living according to God’s will. This means we should know God, but the world says there are many gods, so it is important to find out who the right God is, if you believe there is God. Your life can be better or worse depending what your answer is to this question. Many people just ignore it, cause it’s too complicated, but searching for the answer doesn’t do any harm.

Why are you living? Are you truly happy? What’s leading your life?