DECODE, A NEED

 

What is life? What is its purpose? How should we traverse through life?

As you may be reading this right now, you may have asked these questions yourself and have remain unanswered. For over a thousand years, scholars, scientists, philosophers, and psychologists have studied and gave various answers to the question of what life truly is, its purpose, and all that it encompasses

I sit upon that question every single day, and the idea has never left my mind. During those moments of silence and solemness when all you can hear is the sound of the night, and feel of your own breathing, the idea seeps in and begin to ponder upon. However, it also begs the question of “is life really worth decoding,” that you have to approach all aspects of life rationally and to always see its angles and all that surrounds life. From how life began, how we go through each single day, and the end of life, Death. Is there a life after death, is death the true and final ending of life? From reading books and studies, watching documentaries, I have even gone beyond by peeking through the veils of science and religion itself, but life still remain unexplained fully as both veils give different answer. Only reaching but never completely connecting.

I am now 26 years old, but despite all that years of pondering, learning, and mind-boggling research life remains indefinite that you could never understand the structure of life, the million-piece puzzle that comprises all. We keep on trying to complete that puzzle, but life remains to be this unsolvable piece. For as you place one piece, more pieces become missing, truly an unexplainable mystery.

Looking at society today as a whole,

Seeing how people traverse through life and all its rough roads.

Some of us live life, a-day at a time, while others have it planned out,

Some just sit idly by and observes everything

and others just wait for life to happen for them,

though despite all of these different approaches, life moves on, one calendar flip at a time.

And with all the different things that are happening today, from politics, economics, migration, social injustice, segregation and racism, war, and many more. And with all these different issues, all these life trivialities. We spend such a huge portion of our time sitting through these issues, and trying to make our own ideas and interpretations, exercising our own freedom of speech, in order to make sense of the world and all that is happening, we keep trying to decode all of these things, thinking that it is needed and necessary for us to come up with a single definite answer, yet is life really worth going through that hassle.

And if you ask if I have an answer to that question, I honestly don’t, for maybe that answer is too much for our mortal being. And the question should remain an unanswered. All I know at the moment, and which I could share with you is that life is maelstrom, it is uncertain, and when you thing calm waters are coming you are mistaken. Its going to test every ounce of your being. Though it requires courage, strength, and perseverance to make through life.

The questions of life will remain open at the round table. And its going to be up to you if you’re going to be a life decoder, our you’d just rather be a traveler and enjoying the journey.