I guess I've been thinking a lot about what is really important in life. Recently I watched a documentary called The Human Experience, about a boy who decided he really wanted to seize the human perspective. He spent time living as a homeless person in the streets of New York. He worked as a volunteer in a South American children's home. He visited with people in a Ghanaian leper colony. It just made me wonder, what is this thing that we do? This life that we live? Is it survival or is it living? Do we find wisdom in our daily life? Can we see God's hand in everything we do? But maybe questions are not important. A wise person knows that they don't all need to be answered. To experience wonder is the greatest joy of all. They say that suffering is a journey deeper into the heart of life.
Pleasure is fleeing. Our next meal won't last us very long. Our next relationship probably won't work out. Even though we sleep every night, we still never have enough. And we never will. The Human Experience is knowledge. Not sex, not a good meal, not a first kiss, not a long nap, not a pay raise, not a new pair of shoes. It is perspective. There are some things that are universal to all humans. Find those things. Because for the person who wants to live, it won't matter how painful it is. Risk and fear become small parts of the mind, overshadowed by a more enduring feeling. Hope. Purpose. Everyone needs to know that they have some small and unique contribution to the world. It's the idea that "Just like playing music, each of us has our musical note that we have to play. And if you know that's your note, then no one can play that music. The whole composition is waiting for you to play your note."
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