About me
Life, when looked up in the oxford dictionary means a lot of things, but to best describe it, life is “the period between the birth and death of a living thing, especially a human being.” That “period between birth and death” might tell a different story for each individual, but one thing is certain and that is that at one time or another, life will challenge us to question the deeper things about life, meaning and purpose. Whilst on our individual Journey’s many of us will find ourselves asking questions like, "Why am I here?", "What is my purpose?", "What is the true meaning of my being?", and perhaps, "Does life actually have a point?" Furthermore, for those of you who like me have had many challenges to overcome and have often questioned deeper things like, “Why is life so tragic and unfair?”, “What is the reason behind all of my struggles?”, and perhaps even, “Would killing myself or being consciously absent to life not just be easier than facing my own deamons?” Instead of having the courage act on life, life is now acting on us. We all start to desperately believe that if life isn’t going to make us happy then perhaps we are just not cut out for this whole life thing. However, this is where we go wrong. We start to become so crippled by our circumstances that we forget to be our own hero’s to our stories.
For many people, this stage we find ourselves acting upon is a place where we look for meaning, happiness and our own divine purpose. For Christians the true meaning of life is to love and serve god. Like one of the quotations out of the bible, many Christians do believe, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. “Luke 9:23. Buddhism on the other hand believes, the meaning of life is found in the "true insight" or enlightenment, which is also known as a "perfect peace." A humanist would say we each make our own meaning by the way we live, where as a nihilist, may argue that there’s no meaning at all. Thus, the meaning of life is deeply rooted in mixed philosophical beliefs and religious conceptions of existence, consciousness, happiness and touches many issues, such as symbolic meaning, value, ethics, good and evil, free will, conceptions of god, and the existence of a so-called "god", the soul, the afterlife, the universe and many other philosophies.
Now you may be asking yourself, "what does any of this have to do with the contents with this literature?” well a lot you see, because, until a certain point in my life, life to me was a journey, a journey where I was at the control wheel, steering myself into a life which I hoped would be filled with wealth, success, fame, amazing friends and most importantly, happiness. I mean I thought I was doing a great job, working hard, giving up so many moments with my friends because oh boy there wasn't time for such things if I wanted to live the life I had always hoped for. Well, I was wrong. I should of lived in the now, instead of the later. I should have thought about my happiness now, instead of thinking it would come later. I should have taken the time to meditate and find peace within myself when there were bad times, instead I always looked upon my work and it got me here.
Here I was, in a deep dark black hole which had sucked me in, a place where I was leaning towards an option which in my mind would have resulted in a much happier outcome, "suicide". Instead of ending my life however, life had bigger plans for me. A long and uncomfortable journey was to follow. Not only did I push through my struggle, but I learned from it, listened to the wisdom it wanted to share with me, and grew into such an stronger human being where I can honestly telling all of you facing your own demons that life is never as bad as it seems to just give up one’s life- there is always a solution to whatever it is you going through.
For many people, this stage we find ourselves acting upon is a place where we look for meaning, happiness and our own divine purpose. For Christians the true meaning of life is to love and serve god. Like one of the quotations out of the bible, many Christians do believe, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. “Luke 9:23. Buddhism on the other hand believes, the meaning of life is found in the "true insight" or enlightenment, which is also known as a "perfect peace." A humanist would say we each make our own meaning by the way we live, where as a nihilist, may argue that there’s no meaning at all. Thus, the meaning of life is deeply rooted in mixed philosophical beliefs and religious conceptions of existence, consciousness, happiness and touches many issues, such as symbolic meaning, value, ethics, good and evil, free will, conceptions of god, and the existence of a so-called "god", the soul, the afterlife, the universe and many other philosophies.
Now you may be asking yourself, "what does any of this have to do with the contents with this literature?” well a lot you see, because, until a certain point in my life, life to me was a journey, a journey where I was at the control wheel, steering myself into a life which I hoped would be filled with wealth, success, fame, amazing friends and most importantly, happiness. I mean I thought I was doing a great job, working hard, giving up so many moments with my friends because oh boy there wasn't time for such things if I wanted to live the life I had always hoped for. Well, I was wrong. I should of lived in the now, instead of the later. I should have thought about my happiness now, instead of thinking it would come later. I should have taken the time to meditate and find peace within myself when there were bad times, instead I always looked upon my work and it got me here.
Here I was, in a deep dark black hole which had sucked me in, a place where I was leaning towards an option which in my mind would have resulted in a much happier outcome, "suicide". Instead of ending my life however, life had bigger plans for me. A long and uncomfortable journey was to follow. Not only did I push through my struggle, but I learned from it, listened to the wisdom it wanted to share with me, and grew into such an stronger human being where I can honestly telling all of you facing your own demons that life is never as bad as it seems to just give up one’s life- there is always a solution to whatever it is you going through.