Why are we here?

I think we are all here as part of a giant lab test. We are each given life and are put (born) into various walks of lives. Some of us are born rich some poor, some good looking, some not. The test is to see what we can do with what we have been given and if we leave the earth having made it a better or a worse place than when we arrived.

There doesn't have to be a reason for why we are here, does there? We just are. I think when we were placed/evolved here, it was simply to 'be'.

Already some different interpretations of your question, Galen. Are you asking is there a purpose for us now we are here, or what caused us to arrive here in the first place?

I am with you sewsilver - generations upon generations have agonised over galen's question and come up with no answer.

I favour not using up too much of my one life worrying about it - I do not believe that humans will ever know the answer. But what we can do is to espouse kindness and live our lives decently and honestly.

Your DH lives on in you as all our loved ones do - and the love that they have left with you is passed on by you to those around you. We are all immortal in that sense.

We are not aimless - we just need to define our aims in human terms in the present moment; and kindness has to be the only way forward.

Galen, what a difficult question. Since losing DH I have felt lost and aimless. When I asked myself what I am for I couldn't answer it so I stopped asking.it felt too scary to consider that there may be no reason for our existence. I feel that it's important to try to live in the present, be kind , fight injustice without necessarily having any idea what the purpose of it all is. I'm interested to see what replies you get.

I think some cosmic particles landed on our planet, enabling life to evolve and........ta da! Here we are!

To completely trash the planet. We aren't much good for anything else it would seem. Anything else we do is always for our benefit and nothing else, because if we find the need to correct something in the world it is always to try to put right something we have mucked up.

Discuss!