things that matter

Perhaps, as a child, I've asked this question more often. I bet you, too, have asked this question more frequently as a child than as an adult. What's the point of life? Why do we exist? People who spend more than a minute's worth of time thinking about it have no place in mainstream life.  That's because mainstream life is too busy and too apparent to be riddled with something as obscure and dark as the purpose of life. When we are young, we wonder about it because we believe there's an answer. When we grow up, we realize that the answer is beyond our reach.  Strangely, the realization that we do not know the purpose of our life does not make us give up on life. Ironically, we value life more and get engrossed in living it. It's almost as if having no purpose equates to a de-facto purpose: to live.  I was watching a TV show where a Pakistani celebrity was being interviewed. In a thoughtful moment, the lady host asked our celebrity, "What is life?" Th...