food for thought.

You hold a job, you have an education. You go about your daily life, trying to excel in what you do, trying to climb the ranks, trying to earn a higher salary, trying to meet your soul mate, meeting what you might perceive as your ‘soul mate’, falling in what you might define as ‘love’, getting married, having children, starting a family, watching them grow up, getting old, getting your pension and dying.

There’s got to be more to life, right?

This can’t be IT. I find it hard to believe that so many people throughout the world are content with living this way. Perhaps some may not be – some may have questioned at some point of their lives, exactly the way I’m doing now. Perhaps my parents, too, had thoughts, questions and doubts like I do. Perhaps they just accepted the fact that this is all there is to it; this is life. There is nothing more. Just suck it up and live it. Perhaps people all around the world have resigned to their fate.

Perhaps I’ll end up like one of them.

Some people may argue and say life is all about enjoying the little things, appreciating the beauty and basking in love from the people around us. I completely agree. I agree that we can learn to embrace what life has to offer us. But essentially, don’t you agree that all things in this mortal world are just fleeting moments of pleasure? You feel good for a while but the feeling never lasts. It passes. Everything passes. Nothing is permanent.

But what other option do we have besides succumbing to the fate that our ancestors have once suffered?

Always existing, never living.