Our lives are nothing more than a glimpse, yet we place so much importance on them. We feel that everything we do, everyone we come in contact with, revolves around us. The human race as a whole is selfish, that has been summed up in so many previous posts, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t worth mentioning. Sure, life is the longest thing that we will experience, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t flying by for most of us. You know why? Because most of us won’t make a huge difference. We aren’t going to affect the world how a lot of great minds have. But if you think about it, we all think everything revolves around us, as a human. We sometimes have goals in our life, and every single thing that we do is just another step in obtaining that goal. Who knows what it may be? For some it will be materials, for others, emotional highs, and others, simply success. We can’t say what the future will bring, because we don’t know. We have no idea, we can’t predict it. We can’t base it off our past. Sure determinism tells us that everything we do is based off our past, but who says that is right? Who says that any particular belief is right? Think about the concept of time. Time is the most absolute thing we have. We can’t live without it. Our whole lives are based around the clock. Meeting someone at this time, meeting a deadline for a project, not being on time for a date, a friend, a lover. I don’t believe that God sees in time though; not as we do anyway. I think God is time. The Bible even says that God is the alpha and omega. Ok so He’s seen the beginning, He’s seen the end. Well millions of philosophers around the world would claim that is a basis for the fact that we do not control our own lives, since God knows. This topic has been touched on a time or two in the past, but still goes unresolved in our minds. Just like I said, it’s an eternal struggle. It’s a never-ending battle going on in my mind about that. But if you think about it, why can’t we be in control? If God is not traveling through time, as we are, and he sees it as a whole, then why can’t we choose? Sure, a lot of people claim God is malevolent, because he chooses to let evil live, but then again, if he stopped evil, people would claim we don’t have enough free will, and God is a puppet master. People, no matter what happens, find an excuse to disprove the existence of God. No matter if it is for their benefit, or their satisfaction. The things that happen in our world, no matter if they are good or evil, black or white, clean or dirty, people will somehow use those to blame God. Or maybe they won’t even blame God as I know him. They may blame their God. The cows for the Hindus; Buddha for the Buddhists, Allah for the Islamic.

Situations arise in our life, when we just don’t know how to handle them. We fret, we get upset, we cry, we rejoice, we celebrate, we hurt others, when they happen. How many of them truly matter though? Have you ever considered that? What, that you are doing in your life right now, will matter in ten years? What will matter in five years? What will matter in one year? Tomorrow? One hour? Ten minutes? One minute? Thirty seconds? Very little. How do you make this difference though? What do you have to do in life to make a difference in the fate of the world? Or, do you believe in the Chaos theory, which states that every single thing changes so much that’s unbelievable. That’s one reason that our world is so overwhelming sometimes. There are so many religions, so many philosophical beliefs, and so many people that know for a fact that they are right about things. Sure, I’ll hear one thing one day and say, sure determinism sounds true. It sounds like the way to go. It feels right, but then again, the next day, you hear a new theory, or discover a new theory, that seems so right too, but contradicts determinism! Christianity feels right, but look at Buddhists, they feel right. Where do we draw the line? What’s it going to take? It’s hard to know what to believe these days, but I believe there is a God. How active is God? You know what, I would love to know that. I like to think that God is involved in every single thing that we do, but I don’t know if that is the case or not. Now don’t get me wrong. I believe that God has the ability to assist us in everything, but I don’t think He does. I think in some things, He wants us to figure it out for ourselves. To strengthen our faith, to teach us. I believe that pain is our greatest teacher.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty, it is it’s own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

- Mahatma Gandhi