I Sold my Meaning and Purpose at an Estate Sale
No matter what you have, or what anyone else has, it all ends up here.
The reality of life is this: No matter how much or how little you attain, it will eventually be sold at an estate sale. Cheap. What doesn’t sell will be taken to a landfill.
Estate sales show the meaninglessness of a life of working hard to achieve things.
Everyone is looking for meaning, and trying to find their purpose. Along the way, you accumulate junk that will be stored in a garage and forgotten. What you have worked for will not define you when you are gone.
At least someone might want some of the stuff. The possessions are just possessions. They won’t define you when your life is done, so maybe we should not let them define us while we live.
“Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.” .. Ecclesiastes 1:2
So, what then is the purpose of life? Why are we here? I don’t have the answer, but what we have is our life and we can do what we want with that for the most part. Maybe that is the purpose — to enjoy the life we have been given. Some say God has a plan for your life, but what if there…