The Choice of Meaning
Modern humans first appeared on earth around 300,000 years ago, in the grasslands of savanna, bare, naked and hungry. Feeding his stomach was all that he really cared about. Survival was not trivial then. Around 10,000 years ago, when he learnt settled agriculture, man could, for the first time since his beginning, afford to spend time with himself and his thoughts. Leisure, hitherto had been a rare luxury – now a commonplace. Once our stomachs were full, and survival was taken for granted, we started to think. We now could look at our immediate environment and wonder at its diversity and beauty, we started seeking truths or rather explanations about the origin of the world and ourselves. But there was one elusive question that pressed us more than anything else – what was the purpose and meaning of our life ? Apparently, we were dumbstruck. On the face value, our life had no purpose besides simply existing, but that was too hard for our ego to handle. Moreover, it did not ...
