This week's prompt is about the purpose of grinding day in day out to put food on the table when at the end of the day we all will still die. I going to do my best to do just to this question.
That's the truth. The daily labour to survive is not an easy one. Sometimes I even feel so depressed about life that I contemplate allowing it all to end. But such thoughts do go so deep in my mind, they usually fly off just as they came.
I recall the labour. Sometimes you work for money when you haven't even eaten for the morning. I'm not just speaking for myself but the millions of people in most developing nations of the world. Sometimes they work hard and hard for cash only for sickness to snatch it away and sometimes the person suffering the sickness even dies and burial money will still be provided. How cruel life is.
I think the way I keep purposefulness while working to survive is to focus on the kind of life I will build for myself, my family and others around me once I get the money. How the money will ease my life, give me the capability to eat well and healthy, live in a wonderful house, afford myself whatever I desire. I imagine how that money will change the status of my family and greatly reduce their suffering. I imagine how the money will enable me transform people's lives by investing in areas of the county's economy like agriculture, infrastructure, health, education, tech, etc. If not for anything, the happiness the money I will earn from grinding will put on the faces of my family and people in my country and other parts of the world is enough to give me purpose to keep going.
I believe in the afterlife, so I can say that helps me with proposition of “why do we keep going since we will all die?” Yes, we will all die, but that's not the end of life.
People have been confirmed by scientists to have out of body experiences. Even in this world we live we have encountered strange events that show that there's another world beside this physical one we inhabit.
So I will work, earn the money, because the money will help me live well in this current life and if I live well in this current life, the afterlife will be good for me.
I will reap the rewards of the good things I do in this life with my money when I pass on to the afterlife. That's the goal. So if someone says why not end it since death is inevitable, I will remember that how I live here will influence how I will live in the afterlife so I will choose to keep living here so the afterlife will be good to me.
We only consider our daily struggles for survival worthless in the face of an inevitable death mostly because we are suffering. If we want our lives to become meaningful we must fight to make our lives better by acquiring wealth. That will make us stop seeing living as being worthless. Though, indeed, money can't solve all our problems and there are still rich people whose lives are bad but we must do our best.
I know not everyone shares this perspective but it's nonetheless very valid for me. The goal for me is to make the lives of the members of my family better, make the lives of people in this world better and by that prepare for the afterlife I know will surely come.
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