The Meaning of Life

Many other things may appear of importance, but this is the most important and crucial truth about life. It is what many people spend their entire lives missing, because they are unaware of it's importance to them and their lives on earth and in eternity. Reality is the highest form a human can possibly reach, reality is Heaven. Heaven, is reality. If one could imagine the world as a scale between two extremes, constantly tilting and sliding back and forth, and imagine themselves the weight on this scale, then perhaps they could understand what it is that is the ultimate purpose of their life. To be in reality is to be complete as a human. A humans' best moments happen when they are in the moment, no matter what moment it may be, but they are fully immersed and all present in that one, real, present moment. As children, humans seem to have more of these moments, well, at least they recognize their importance more, because they profoundly miss these moments, and long for them fervently. As an adult with more and more things going on in a humans' life, the moments pass by much quicker, allowing the human to become used to the moments, and quickly overlook them. As they come streaming in, it is easy for the human who is unaware of the absolute necessity and importance of being in and fully present in these moments. A child who has been fully enjoying himself at the beach will be extremely sad when the day comes that he must leave. His memory will be best because he, even as an adult, will be able to clearly recall the minutest detail about that one trip at the beach. As an adult, being unhappy and unfulfilled only come when the human is on one of the two extremes of the weighing scale. They have either slid towards the past or the future and are not in the present. There are degrees of this of course, but the further they slide in either direction, the more hopeless life will seem. This is where the feeling of numbness comes from. This is where the feeling of anxiety comes from. This is where the feeling of loss comes from, remaining in one of these two extremes. To actually be in reality is the highest achievement of life. This is why suffering and pain can be good things. It is not that the things in themselves are good, but that the extremes of suffering and pain actually have the effect of balancing the human, pulling them back into reality. Some people struggle with this problem more than others. Those who are daydreamers, thinkers, and more analytical people find it easier to get “stuck” in a false reality, one that lives in their minds. To be able to find reality, one must stop escaping. Drugs are a method of escapism, to run away from reality. They “soften the blow” C.S. Lewis once wrote that Hell is the place where the ground is soft, because it is the “ultimate escape from reality”. People who are angry at God can easily mistake the problems in their lives as being due to God, when in truth, God is just pulling them back, pulling them back into the present moment, no matter how difficult it is. God created change to keep people suspended in reality as much as possible. The seasons change to remind humans that they do not live on a perpetual, never-ending carousel ride, but rather that every moment counts and makes it's print in the full measure of eternity. Time was created to help people remain in reality, if there were no time, people might forget that each moment is different than the one before. Why is it that people need to know that each moment is unique? It is because reality can only be reached through time. Eternity cannot be reached within a person, without “traveling through time”. Eternity is present in reality. Eternity is the present, this one particular moment. But it must be gained in a way, because it is easy to lose.