Weekend-Engagement topics: WEEK 200 | | Life Is Always An Upside Down Ladder, Isn't It?

So, here we are once again, talking about what is the meaning of life. Perhaps it is one of the most transcendent questions in the history of humankind. It is one of those questions that one tends to think about when it is late night and thinks it is a post-modern philosopher in the middle of an annoying insomnia.

Has anyone managed to figure out such a dilemma? A few. Maybe no one. However, everyone comes to have a more or less fixed perception of life. As for me, I consider that our existences go hand in hand with life experiences. That is to say, it is a great stage of experiences that teach us what we probably needed to learn.

In an era where "perfection" is constantly being viralized, I reckon that there is nothing further from our humanity than that. Life is full of mistakes —big or small—that we make every day to realize what we needed to incorporate into our modus operandi in order to be better.

Now, to be better in what way? I might be in our personal qualities and socialization with the people around us. Everyone has virtues and defects that we have to work on, although we generally like to ignore the latter. And, given that personal improvement, we have the opportunity to help our close ones to do the same, or vice versa. It is a kind of existential feedback.

God has us always in his classroom, watching as we succeed and fail. How we laugh and cry. In short, watching us in His long process of learning.

"There is no greatness, where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."

I like that quote from Tolstoy very much because it comes to reflect much of what my mission in life is.

I long for nothing more than to live in peace by doing good to others and speaking or acting in the way of truth. I believe that this is exactly what allows someone to live not so much in greatness, but, perhaps, in true happiness, whatever your profession, job or life goals are.

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