Life, we are all involved in it. We go around doing things that we feel are important, or that we feel that we have fun doing, but do we even know what life is? Probably not, because this a question that has plagued philosophers for thousands of years. Life is mysterious, strange and certainly unpredictable. It involves things like time and space. It is full of all different types of relationships. We have the relationships of people that we know from work or organizations that we may belong to. We have the relationships between our friends and ourselves. There are certain relationships between our family members and ourselves and then there is the closest ones between our husbands and wives and our children. These are all parts of the lives we are living. Sometimes our lives involve some type of profession or work that we love, but most of the time it doesn't. I have to believe that there are many more people out there that dislike, or even hate their jobs than those that like them. The reasons for this may be due to the fact that some of the jobs are labor intensive or they involve unpleasant tasks or even that they don't pay enough. There could also be another reason and that could be that the work place environment is unpleasant. This could be due to unpleasant supervisors or bad working conditions. Some people feel that the job that they do is beneath their qualifications and this makes them unhappy.

Some of us have hobbies. We might be stamp collectors, coin collectors or even collectors of rare art, if we have the means. We might be driving around in exotic cars, such as a top of the line Porsche or even a Rolls Royce. Most of us can not afford such a luxury and are probably driving in a Toyota, Honda or Hyundai, you know, the car that rhymes with Sunday. Some of us have no car, because we may be out of work, or too young, or even too old to drive. We live in mansions, suburban housing, apartments and trailers. Some of us have a need for companionship that extends beyond the family and we have pets. We own dogs, cats, birds, lizards and even snakes. Some of us are very charitable and donate regularly to different charities and worthy causes. Others of us believe that if people are experiencing hard times and need help, they should get a job. Thankfully the charitable people outnumber the rest. This has been proven in different surveys that have shown that Americans in general are the most generous people on earth.

Most people believe in God. There are all sorts of ways of worshiping. practices out there. Some people worship in churches, some in synagogues, some in temples and still others in mosques. Some people don't believe in God at all. Personally I feel that God is the only explanation for all of this. Just look at life, how else could it ever be explained? It is dependent on so many things, including the universe. As I once said in a different article, the human mind can not grasp the fact that there was always a universe and if there wasn't, then there was at least empty space, but where did this space come from? See, that is the problem, we just keep knocking our heads against the wall when we try and figure out where the very first things came from. There is this relationship with God and the universe, both seem to have origins that can not be explained. Could the universe itself be intelligent and could that be God? I guess we are getting into very deep waters here, maybe even too deep. Even the question of where did everything ultimately come from is so impossible to answer, that most of us can only say, it came from God who is another mystery.

Are our lives entwined with other lives that we don't know about? People have reported strange craft and beings for over a hundred years and pictures on rocks and cave walls might indicate that other beings have visited us. How does this effect life? Well for one thing it means that life itself is not what we generally think it is. It involves more than us, it also involves THEM and possibly OTHER THEMS. We might be living our lives in a universe full of THEMS. Scientists talk about other dimensions. We might be only one dimension in a myriad of dimensions and we might even be only one universe in millions of universes, or if we go by the incredible amounts of stars and galaxies in our own universe, there might be billions upon billions of these universes. The universe tends to deal in very large numbers. I like the analogy that there are more stars in the heavens than grains of sand on the beach.

Do we really exist or do we only think that we exist? Are we existing in some sort of dream world, like the characters in the movie The Matrix, or is our reality truly real? It seems very real to us. We feel pain, we age and we die. We get hungry, we eat, we work and so forth. What if we were really ageless creatures and dying was only something that we thought we did, but we really are not in the form that we think? This could account for a lot of things, including memory of past lives and reincarnation. We might be some sort of formless universal creatures. We keep hearing that we are being watched by other beings and that they are far superior to us. What if all this is wrong and it turns out that we are the superior beings, but don't realize it right now? We might be stuck in our dream, or whatever it is and this might cause us to think that we are only at a certain technological point in time, when really we are far beyond that. Hey maybe we are in some sort of a machine and this is recreation of some sort and when it is over, we will return to our true forms and true life.

Some say that there is no point to life, it is just a random experience. Some of the people that feel that way are responsible for much of the grief in this life. The reason that I say this is that they are the people behind much of the suffering and injustice. They feel that it make no difference, because when they die it is the end of everything for them, so that might as well take what they can, no matter what the cost to others. I can not buy this explanation, it is just so morally wrong on so many fronts. Anyone who would allow his fellow man to suffer, just so he could get a new car or enrich himself in any other way, does not understand the human experience. I believe that we were all put here for a purpose, but even if I didn't, I would never think that it is right to hurt others just to get what I want. We all face things like tribal warfare, religious warfare and political warfare. Unfortunately there is also economic warfare. There are he has got it and I want it, types of things going on. Why is it that some of us are never satisfied, no matter how rich we are? Do these people have an illness that might be equivalent to alcoholism, drug addiction or gambling? After all, how much money can someone use? If you have billions, why do you need more?

No I can't figure out life entirely, but I can figure out that most of us were given a conscience and the question is why, if we weren't supposed to use it? Where did we ever get the concept from of right and wrong? There is something more here than meets the eye. I think that while we may not know exactly what life is, most of us know how to live it.