Why You Are Here?

So why are we here? Why do we exist? What is the point of it all?

For as long as I can remember I have struggled with questions such as these. For the longest time, I did not think I knew the purpose of my life. I wondered about it as if it wasn’t already permanently imprinted upon the very core of my being.

Even now I occasionally choose not to remember why I’m really here. I’m guessing that most of the people reading this are choosing to forget the simple fundamental truth that forms the foundation of every life on this planet. Even I succumb to the seductions of lies like: “Making money is the most important thing.” Or “Creating things is the most important thing.” “ Or “Controlling perceptions is the most important thing.” The world is as screwed up as it is, not because people don’t know the truth, but because we persistently choose to ignore what we know to be true in the depths of our being.

We exist to make manifest the fullness of love in our receiving of all of the love we can possibly receive and in the giving of our love to the fullest possible extent.

This may sound soft, shallow, naïve, or foolish to some of you reading this. I don’t care. I have struggled through my own bullsh*t for way too long to uncover this truth in my own life to try to dress up something simple, good, beautiful, and true so that others will be impressed by it.

And in case anyone thinks that living a life of reckless unconditional love is too soft a target, I know instantly that those people haven’t actually given it a shot. There is no more challenging goal in this world-apparently and temporarily ruled by fear and its many ugly stepchildren.

Love isn’t about being nice. Love isn’t about being a doormat for bullies. Love isn’t about looking the other way when fearful people do their business all over each other.

Love is about speaking the truth, even when it isn’t what people want to hear. Love is about standing up for others and for what is good and true and beautiful, especially when it is not popular. Love is about staring bullies down and taking their blows, even to the point of death if that is what it takes to help people wake up from their walking comas. Love is about helping people who are acting out of fear to see what seeds they are planting and what crops they will be harvesting if they do not change their habitual patterns. We’ve seen, heard about, and read examples of people doing these very things. We are being called to do the same in the name of True Love-Love that never, ever gives up.

To love with reckless abandon is to risk losing everything while hoping and trusting that all will end up winning in the end. And the winning in the end is not a some kind of hollow victory over others. It is not the raising of a shiny trophy. The victories that matter are the daily triumphs over our fears. We are to seek victory over living lives of commiseration and mediocrity. Greatness is available to each and everyone one of us, not necessarily in the ways that  most people would recognize, and yet those of us who are now waking up to the repercussions of choosing to focus on our fears instead of our loves need to start playing a much bigger game in the cosmic arena if we are to help ourselves and others to risk everything they think they have in order to experience everything worth living for.

Let us play all-out at life. Let us play for lasting victory over our lesser selves. It is these kinds victories that bring true and lasting rewards-our true and permanent ownership of absolute and infinite worth.

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