Life's Uncertainty

It was once said that "Life has the name of life, but in reality is death"...There are several ways i could go about analyzing this quotation. The reasonable/linear side of me wants me to pick this quotation apart from a rational standpoint... The abstract/artistic side of me wants to say some stuff that probably will be understood by very few…well ill take a leap of faith here and go with the latter…try to stay with me on this one…

Every night I lay down and contemplate the events that just took place… was it a successful day? Did I accomplish all the things that I had hoped to? As I begin to analyze my actions and revisit the series of events that occurred within the last 24 hours, a wave of uncertainly will periodically invade my thoughts and feelings. Now this uncertainty is felt solely by those who are extremely quizzical about their purpose, not the type that is felt by those who are afraid of what might happen at their workplace;their meaning…their reason for living. Now the above quote—said by Heraclitus—is what makes people experience the uncertainty i just talked about; Heraclitus essentially is stating that life has no purpose… that we are living to die, that our predominant purpose is death itself. If you know me at all by now… you would realize that mind will and always has refused to believe such statements. I refuse to believe that all human beings, no matter their motives, are just waiting to die. I refuse to believe that we have all been placed here on this earth by mere coincidence. i will never believe that all of our efforts are pointless; Now I'm not rejecting science or any religion in any sort of way… I'm just rejecting life's uncertainties…the type of uncertainty that is felt by the Atheist and Mormon alike, the type that even the most faithful can't escape… And the reason for this is because life, at its foundation, is uncertain. think of anything at all, no matter how ridiculous it may seem;could happen within the next week. No matter how much we discuss it, debate it or even start wars over it… we won't know what happens to us after we die, until after we die. Now being the devout Roman Catholic that I am I do think I know what happens after death, but what I'm trying to say is a universally accept theorem of "life after death" is plain unrealistic.

However, I digress…ill get back to discussing uncertainty. Socrates once said "I know that I know nothing"… two centuries from now this quotation will still hold true for even the most prestigious academic of that era… the reason being, life has questions that will never be answered… I don't care if we formulate a theory that perfectly illustrates how we got here, no one can or ever will be able to explain why we are here…


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Austin Hatem
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