Why Do We Exist?
Such an easy question to ask, but can we ever know the correct answer to it? For sure, we can always find various purposes to make our lives meaningful, but what is the true meaning behind the mystery that we happen to be born in this world, crying, unaware of what is going on; and no matter how lucky or unlucky we will be, there is one common thing that will happen to all of us, we will die.
Why?
Why were we born in first place, and why do we have to die?
Since there doesn’t seem to be a way to know for sure, we either adopt some answer from our surrondings, or we look around and choose some other, and then carry on. But how much do we actually think about it? Before we decide that it can not be known for sure, how much effort do we actually put in? While we study for several years to learn the answers to so many different questions, do we at least spend a week of our lives, to at least make an attempt to search if there may actually be a way to know the answer to this question as well? How about a few days, or a few hours perhaps? We may assume that if there was a way to know the answer, someone else would have already found it, and everybody else would have learnt it by now, too.
Of course there are religions claiming to know, but they actually ask us to believe in their answers and fail to propose a model on how we can actually know, apart from increasing our faith with more prayers. There is also science, which does an amazing job at describing how we exist, but apart from sometimes offering a different belief, that there is no meaning, it usually is not interested in this why. For sure, if one thinks that our universe popped into existence all by itself and nothing in it requires any source of intelligence, then a lack of meaning is an easy conclusion. But if one thinks that there is a Creator who is aware of our existence, and who also gave us our minds, would such being make it possible for us to know why It made us, or would It expect us to just believe in something among the pool of contradicting and confusing claims across the world?