An Attempt to Figure out LIFE

Life is not as simple as it looks like. Life has different meanings for everyone and these meanings often change with time too. Our life starts the very first day we open our eyes and the more we try to understand it or the more we feel that we are now mature enough to figure out what it really is, it becomes more and more complex. It’s not that we never grow mature enough to solve this mystery, but it’s something that changes its course or its meanings whenever we try to guess something about it. Sometimes I feel that Life is never meant to be understood or to be predicted, it is just to be lived the way it wants you to live. But being a rational atheist its even more difficult to believe that almighty can be biased enough to not let us live our life the way WE want.
A rational atheist and a devotee of science and logic is a deadly combo, isn’t it? Being a student of science, it is difficult to stop figuring out what you feel is still unanswered. This is because the one of the most important lesson which a science student learns is to seize the opportunity to figure out the answer of any unanswered question posed by anyone. For most of us I believe, it is difficult to find out questions compared to answer them. We get excited every time we come across a mystery or a problem or a challenge and this is not because we love to solve them but the main reason is that behind every unsolved problem we see an opportunity to make a difference.
The best part of life is learning. The world in which we live is an ocean of knowledge, someone has said it right. Every moment we live, life has something to offer us. How vast is the ocean of knowledge is and how small compared to that our life is. Sometimes I wonder, is it right to say that ‘History repeats itself’? If it happens then it can only be because of two reasons, one being the limited offerings which life has in store for us and the other being the incomplete transfer of knowledge from one generation to other. I being on a vacation these days for Diwali at home, have no new technical challenges to face and hence planning to take an attempt to solve the mystery called LIFE.
With the hope that the attempt will not go wasted.
Arian
(in search of meaning for LIFE)