I considered his question. At 60, I have concluded that we humans are incapable of answering that question with any authority. We can only suggest what life means to each of us individually, which is at best going to be a semi-educated and highly subjective guess. And one person's view on this subject my be unsuitable or irrelevant to another person.
I decided that there are other questions that we really ought to be asking ourselves instead.
- What are some of the realities and hard truths that we will discover in our journey?
- What are the sorts of things we should be doing as make the journey from life to death?
- What strategies should we employ to make the journey an easier one?
- What sorts of general rules and values do we need to be aware of along the way?
- What are some of the things we should definitely not be doing, if we want to simplify our lives and avoid unnecessary problems?
However, I take the trouble to do this because we humans are somewhat peculiar creatures. Even if we have learned certain bits of common knowledge about life that we know to be "true", we still sometimes forget that hard-won wisdom we have learned along the way and proceed to do some pretty counterproductive and stupid things anyway. Sometimes we don't always learn from our mistakes the first time... or the second time... well, you get the idea. So it can't hurt if I remind you about some things you may already know. And I know I will have to come back and reread some of my own stuff here to remind myself, as well. I understand that in this regard I am probably no better than anyone else.
Take from this blog what is useful and valuable to you. Should you need to refresh your memory from time to time about what you read here, it will always be waiting right here for you.
Please understand that you play an important role in making this blog a success. Here's where you come in. You can enter a comment any time on any of the posts that will appear here. I cordially invite you to share with us your own experiences and your own insights as a comment. If you will do that, all of us will hopefully be a little wiser than we were before. You see, it makes a lot of sense to learn from the experiences and the mistakes of others. If every one of us can learn to make that a habit, we might be able to avoid so many of the unnecessary and stressful situations in our own lives.
Enough with the intro. Now it is time for me to get this show on the road.
Looking forward to hearing from you, when you stop by and visit Life 101 - The Basics.
Kindest regards,
Howard Fireman
Houston, Texas
USA
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