GOAL: PERSPECTIVE

The Purpose of Existence

A common question with an easy answer: the same purpose as the stars.

Storytime. 🕯️

In the beginning, there was nothing.

Then there was a loud bang. Not that anyone heard it, so it can't really be described as loud, but it was the first thing that ever happened, so it's loud by comparison.

With the loud bang came a lot of light.

From nothing, there came light.

Let's call this light, God.

God was just there. It existed. It didn't really do anything. It was just burning up, using its gases as fuel, for billions and billions of eons, the kind of timeframe we wouldn't even be able to comprehend, until the fuel ran out and God vanished.

But instead of vanishing, there was another loud bang.

And God splintered.

It splintered into billions upon billions of sparks of light.

These sparks became galaxies.

And within these galaxies splintered even more sparks of light, which became the stars.

And within each star system were millions of other things from the splintered light, like black holes and planets and dust and ice.

And within one star system, where the sun glowed a warm orange, God's light had splintered even further into trillions of souls on a small blue planet.

Little points of consciousness.

Minute instances of awareness.

From the tiniest, microscopic bacteria, to the gigantic creatures living on the planet's vast blueness.

From the sparkle of dewdrop on a fern's leaf, to the freezing peaks of a mountain summit.

God had splintered into all of these.

The world went from nothingness, to light, to splintered light.

Everything is from that same light.

So the purpose of existence is the same as God's purpose.

To simply be.
To experience.
To live in the strangeness and mystery of it all.
To be in awe.
To breathe.

To burn up like a giant star, well-used and well-spent, until all the fuel runs out, and we vanish.

Exercise

SELF-DISCOVERY

1. Who are you?


2. What is your purpose?


3. If you vanished right this moment, what will you have left behind?