The Value of Life

As I was looking at the night sky with countless dazzling stars, I began to contemplate on my value, as I lost my consciousness in the vast empty space before me, I began to ask: "Who am I?.... Why am I here?...... What am I for?...... What is life?....... What is the value of life?........ Where am I going?..... All of us are walking a journey, on a path unknown leading us to a place that is based on the choices that we choose, on the options that we tend to follow and on the decisions that we tend to make."

"Life is human, life is tangible, life is emotions, life is change. Life is a gradual process of growth, a cycle of birth, degeneration and death. But what is life to those who seek the material wealth of living? What is life to those who seek vanity? What is life to those who seek wisdom? What is life to those who serve for the common good? What is life to you?"

"If life then is happiness, how do you define happiness? Is it the satisfaction of the hunger that you have? Is it the contentment that fills an empty heart? Or is it the fulfillment of a day's work? Is it the to have and to hold the things that you yearn for? Is it the love that you found? There is more mystery to life, more than the birth of a newborn or the death of the old. The universe is a wide expansion of space in which we are but a speck of dust. The mechanics of life is more than the daily routine, it is more than the stretch of a smile, the laugh of a friend, the hug of a loved one. The dynamics of life is more than just a competition for a living, more than the survival of the fittest. Because the main mechanics of life and the dynamics in which we are all bound and the main essence of living is the pursuit of happiness.

Life is a constant struggle of doubts and trusts, of night and day, of good and evil. But these struggles only comes to be because we are in a pursuit of the things that we desire, the things that we need and the things that we want. However, two sides compliments each other. We can never yearn peace if we don't experience war, we can never value life if we never experience loss and we will never seek happiness if we never felt sadness. We do not realize that we are the masters of our own desires, we contemplate on what we need or what we want and we seek on a series of processes to turn what we contemplate on into a reality. We need love so we seek love, we feel sad so we seek happiness, we have satisfaction so we want more. Life is a mystery only to be uncovered by the person who seeks to solve the mystery of being alive, to calm the uproars of the soul, to heal a wounded heart, to serve, to help, to lead, to contemplate. Many people complain that life is full of tears, full of sorrows and full of sadness but they do not know that they are the ones who dictate the course of their own life. I am sad because I choose to be sad, because I feel the emptiness in my heart and seeks to fell the void within. You are happy because you choose to be happy, to love even if that same amount of love is not reciprocated back to you. You offer your heart in an open hand.

But for the rest, who are bewildered by the madness of daily living, they have failed to see the joys in simple things. Some people become bitter when they know they have lost a loved one, some resort to self destruction, greed and lust to feel accepted but we cannot blame them for they too have the limitations, but they think these limitations can be filled by the material world only to find out that the only way to cure self worthlessness is to find out your worth, to regain your life is simply to determine your value, as a child of the universe. Remember this: no one is greater and lesser than we are, for each of us has a story rightful in the pages of time and worthy to be listened to. In the dynamics of the universe there is no such thing as poor or wealthy, benevolent or malevolent, high or low but there is only self worth, the value of your life is not based upon your material success or the tangible rewards because the true value of life is based upon how happy you are of the result.

Find your self worth and you will find your self, you can begin to walk on your journey to the path to where you want to be, for happiness is never the journey but the destination. Whatever the result is as long as it will make you and the people around you to be happy, as long as it benefits not only yourself but the whole universe then do it, because the pursuit of happiness is a road less understood and a path less taken"

Now going back to where I was, my soul came back to my body and found myself holding a cup waiting for the coffee seeds to be brewed..... Oh my goodness I feel like I am the reincarnation of Paracelsus!

Taken from:
"The Essence of Being Human"
by Gerard D. Ompad
(A simpleton, a mentor, a geek...always misunderstood)