What is the Meaning of Life
What is the meaning of life? What purpose, if any, do we serve here on Earth? Why are we here? These are the obvious questions which come into everyone’s mind. Maybe these are some of the oldest questions of humanity! While science explains the ‘how-s’ of life, it is happy to leave. Perceptibly, the other branches of human knowledge – metaphysics, theology, psychology, history, sociology, etc. attempt to answer these questions from their own perspectives, answers which are remarkable not only for their divergence and for the infinity of paradoxes and contradictions that they create. For some people, life may be all about having a family and going on living till death, while for some others, it is all about accumulating wealth. Some live this life for an eternal afterlife without having any idea about the purpose of such an afterlife. The meaning of life may be diverse for different people - it could be the pursuit of either knowledge or religion, or art or...