BORN TO DIE

What if I was born to die? As in, the only reason you were born is for you to die. Have you ever thought of such a question? Now I’m giving you that chance to think about it, what if you were actually born to die? The answer that would linger in many of our minds would probably be then why was I born in the first place and my answer would be, because you can’t die without being born; you first live before you die. But even with this answer, I don’t know if someone if any would have a reason to live a meaningful life. With our human intellectual, a good number of us would find that as the perfect reason not to engage in any meaningful life fulfilling activity and we would argue that our purpose here on earth is to die so why waste your time, energy and other resources doing things that will never benefit you. The mediocre mind might argue, “give that, e.g money, to the poor instead of wasting it educating yourself yet you will die” forgetting that at the end of the day, all humans are bound to physical death to say the least.

Probably by now you are wondering why on earth I am writing concerning death which is a topic least discussed in any conversation and if by any chance it crops up, it’s purely circumstantial. Here is why, first is because the question I raised at the start of this article is not fictional but a real life situation and a true story of someone born to die, secondly and which we all tend to deny is that it is a reality which we can never run away from. In this article, I will mainly tell of the first reason and hopefully we will tackle the second reason later.

Many a time, we wade through life without really knowing our purpose in life and so each day we keep wondering what our purpose is, we are not able to identify the reason as to why we exist and we even go to the extent of having others identify the purpose of our own lives. Some of the statements I have heard state, “I wish God would clearly tell me what I am suppose to do”, “ If only I can identify what I am truly good at”, “I wish I had known these early enough, my life would have been so different”, but what leads people to make such statements? I believe it is lack of satisfaction in what he or she is currently doing or has been doing which arises from a point of taking the wrong turn at some point in their life.

Then there are those who have enjoyed every day of their lives. They have found fulfillment and satisfaction in what they do, they have been feeding from the silver spoon because there was someone to help them identify what they were created for and what they are good in and they played their role by following it.

I bet by now the question is, who identifies our purpose and how do we get to know what our purpose is?...

…watch out for this continuation