Tuesday, August 25, 2015

I get Meaning of Life - Do you?

With each passing day, I feel an amazing feeling of peace and satisfaction. I feel "I get it". At any given time in our history, the living generation has lived their life feeling the same range of emotions that any other generation at any other time. Today we might feel like what a pain it was in early 1700s for people to take days to travel from Washington to Raleigh. Today we are pretty happy driving in a few hours and covering the same distance. Just like this is normal for us, the people of 1700s found the travel time and mode normal as well. If you look at all the progress as an outsider, you will notice that the normal has moved over time, but the happiness and sadness of human race is about the same around the new normal. Today we know a lot more than humans did 500 years ago and we can be sure that humans of 500 years in the future will know and do a lot more than we do. Not too many of us feel tortured by our lack of knowledge as compared to the humans of future. We do consider ourselves very fortunate to be living today as opposed to 500 years ago when so many of so called modern amenities were not there.
As I see my parents aging and my kids growing up, I think I get the meaning of life, but I cannot put it in words or explain it to anyone. I have a sense of satisfaction that I know what is going on in the world.