Our Meaning

Why are we here? What is our meaning in life? This is a question that human beings have been asking themselves as long as they have been conscious. This is also a question unique to humans. This is so because other living organisms know what their purpose and meaning is. Their meaning is to reproduce and continue and ensure the survival of their species. This is one of the things that are embedded into the DNA of every living thing. Animals are almost “programmed” to have babies every spring and the only things that viruses and bacteria know how to do is divide themselves and multiply. Trees and other vegetation can’t think but they still know how to pollinate each other and make sure new plants grow and blossom in the next season. This lack of ability to think is exactly why animals and plants and single celled organisms don’t really worry about their meaning. We on the other hand are constantly thinking organisms. This is why we are always searching for greater meaning to our lives than just to have children and continue humanity as a species. What this greater meaning is, I just don’t know. I think this is something that each person must find on their own. This meaning could just be as simple as to start a family and have children or it could be to find one’s true potential. Either way the only to find out is through yourself.