“There are two important days in our life,

The day we are born, and the day we find out why.”

Mark Twain.

 

It happens to everybody sooner or later. We stop what we are doing and ask “What am I doing here? What is the purpose of all this? What is the purpose of my life?” We realize that this question has been with us all our life – like gravity. We don’t talk about it because we prefer not to answer questions for which we don’t have an answer. This is detrimental to the ego. We may say, “How do you do?” but we would not go any further and ask people, “What are you doing with your life?” This is taboo! We know that we all are in the same predicament. We don’t know where we will be in five years. We walk in the fog, being conscious only of what is close to us.

 If we had an answer to the question, “What are you doing with your life?” everything else would fall into place. We may spend more time with our kids instead of making more money. What we consider essential today could become secondary. Some stress would evaporate. We would feel liberated from details!

It does not have to be that way. We should get out of our solitary confinement and put our heads together. If we could answer the question “What is the purpose of our life?” we could reorganize our life around that answer. All we need is a new answer to an old question.

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Life will be much easier when we know what we are doing.

 

Let’s break some taboos. We need some fresh air!

Let’s set aside everything you think you know about philosophy, religions, and ideologies. Let’s get as close as possible to the state of mind of the newborn baby who thinks, “What is this place?” What am I doing here? It is a mistake. Why do I have this body? It hurts. I don’t like it. I'm going to go back to sleep and head home!

Humans are suspended somewhere between the infinitely small atoms and the infinitely large galaxies. This is not a very comfortable position for somebody who pretends to dominate the universe. We may not know where to find Heaven or Hell, but we know where to find a Purgatory. It is here on earth. This is where the souls are mended. Our soul is using our body like our body is using our shoes. We need them to travel but using our shoes is not the reason we travel.

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Let’s see what people all over the world have in common. There must be a common base, a standard pedestal on which everybody can erect his own statue.

We will consider only ideas that can be accepted by every human being of any race, age, gender, or sexual preference. This is the base common to all the homo sapiens on which you can add your personal convictions.