Story #9 “Emotions”

Why? Everyone always asks this, right? Why are we here? What are we doing? Is there some reason for this, or is this all for nothing? Some say this isn’t it, that there is a whole other life after this one we have here and now. What would that be for though? Life has a strange way of allowing us to find purpose, to find meaning in something, but is that true purpose or meaning, or a fog that was created by those that came before us? Some people find their purpose in a structure that wasn’t created by them. The structure was created by people that today you would not allow to make decisions in your life, yet you are controlled by the decisions they made in the past. Again I come back to the why? Why here? Why now? Why me? What is it all for? What does it all mean? Is there a collective purpose? What does that even mean? There are religions that claim they have solved the meaning to purpose, but there are many religions. So rather, is there in fact a purpose, and just many avenues to find a purpose? Or in fact is there simply no purpose at all and we just all get to choose what to make our purpose everyday? Perhaps purpose is in the exploration….perhaps the ever-going seeking to find the purpose is in fact the very purpose itself. There are moments, hours, days, even phases of life that this dread can overcome the strongest of us, and this confusion cripples the mind. Where is value, can you create your own, or has it all been decided for you? A brand new child of this world hasn’t a clue of its value until the culture and society it is exposed to begin to create its value. How much influence does it, or will it, have over its own value? How is it calculated? Is value calculated from the collective of all, or do we in fact have value as individuals? What influence do we have over our purpose… over our value? Can I create my own?… Can you?