All those people in that photo, they are all dead. All long gone. Each one knew their own personal meaning of life. They lived 40, 50, 60 years. Then died from some cause. They all look kinda badass, I would be at least one of them got shot. The photo was taken between 1910 and 1915. They all look to be over 20 years of age, and assuming the youngest is 20, and the photo was taken 1915 at the latest, the 20 year old would be 115 years old today.
So anyway, kinda off-topic here. Those guys, I'll never meet them. And thus they are not really part of my life. They may have shaped history in some way that effects me today, but things that happened back then, it's not my life.
I'm 26 now. I hope to live at least 80 years. So another 54 years ahead of me based on that assumption. I believe in God, as I believe there has to be a creator to everything that you see. The electrons that run this display? They just didn't appear out of nothing, some greater power put all of these atoms here. And I believe is to be God, and that someone, someway my soul will live on. I believe in science as well. That science was created by God. The gravity, the laws of physics, all by the creator.
Maybe my soul won't, by an act of magic, ascend to the place called heaven when I die. There is no way of knowing without having another act of magic show me with my own eyes. Without the voice of God the creator tell me directly. I just have to live my life, hour by hour, day by etc. When I die, I then either wake up again somewhere else, or the lights are out for good. All these thoughts I'm recording right now, those will be what I leave behind. Every photo I take, every video I record. The children I bear, the lessons I teach. Perhaps I'll go on a journey onto another world, through the transfer of my soul from one place to another.
So life is life. Your life is your life. You may read these words and see this all in a different light. But you'll never experience what I'm experiencing writing this. Your brain will not think up the exact same thoughts and type them out the same way. In the same room of the same house, on the same day, in the same year, in the same temperature, etc. That is a totally unique thing I'm doing right now. You can ride any roller coaster at Kennywood, sit in the same seat as the person before you, but it won't be the same as he or she saw it. Maybe that person hates heights, or bright lights, or screaming people, quite people. Whatever it is, each person experiences it differently.
Look at sports for example. Maybe Baseball. There are hundreds of pro baseball players. They all worked pretty hard to get where they are. But the experience is all different. Different teams, different cities, different positions, different paychecks.
And from that day I first opened my eyes, to the day I take my last breath, that is my life. Before I started and after I'm gone, I'll have no direct input. The meaning is to live. Maybe your sitting in front of your TV for the 3rd day in a row and you think you really need to live life fuller. The thing is, you are. Your doing something you want to do. When your bored enough to leave it behind, then you do the next thing.
I think that all of the time when I'm using a computer. Right now. I was in bed at midnight, then I got up, came into this room, and haven't left yet. I could be sleeping. I could be doing some sort of hobby. But I'm glued to the screen. Do I want to spend my life staring at it? But it's hard not to. So much information. Facebook is information overload. I have 140 friends on Facebook, 130 of them I would probably have zero idea on what they are up to. Now I do again.
And for some reason, I can't get enough.