There's not enough time

12:00, 06/10/23

Just think about it: we may live, what, 100 years at most. What are 100 years when you compare it to how old the earth is? How many centuries have already passed? Our existence is nothing but a drop of water in the sea of time.

All of our busyness here is useless. We get all tangled up in the things we have to do: homework, work, appointments, meetings, housework... we busy ourselves even to the point of neglecting our health...but what for? Is that really important? Isn't all of that pointless? All of our efforts, achievements, and worries accompany us to the grave. 

People live their lives unsatisfied, frustrated, in pain, like blind men led by the sounds around them. Nothing seems to be enough. They spend their lives complaining about not having enough money, not having what they want to have, not having the life they would like to have, looking for something that will satisfy...isn't that pointless? 

Though life is a precious gift, people often spend it focusing on pointless things. Don't you think there is more to life than that? You should ponder about these things because life is really short. There's not enough time.

In my quest for answering all of these questions I had, I found the answers in a very precious book. The author was a very wise man. He contemplated "life" itself, not just the meaning of it. And one of the words that pierced my soul the most were the following:

'Yes, remember your Creator now while you are young, before the silver cord of life snaps and the golden bowl is broken. Don’t wait until the water jar is smashed at the spring and the pulley is broken at the well. For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it. ' Ecclesiastes 12:6-7