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Growing Up

Is there any meaning or purpose to human life?
We don't seem to be heading anywhere in a broader sense.
If someone were to ask me this, what would I say?
We have made matter and energy.
We have discovered and invented.
We have made our lives better by our own might.
May be we are the masters of the universe if we are the only living beings.
We have learnt about our world and the worlds within our own world.
But have we learnt about the world outside our own world.
For that do we know whether there is a world greater than out world?
We are forever being torn between the needs of the body and the mind.

May be we mastered matter in the sense that we know how to mould and change it according to out needs.
But all our lives we end up slaving for matter. Creating matter, creating energy to run matter, fighting for matter, squatting for matter, squealing, crawling for matter, living and dying for matter.
And we cannot figure out what we am doing or even what we am trying to ach...

Posted by: Joel Chibota

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