What if...

What if the meaning of human life was….

Caution: The following perspective may cause major emotional discomfort to some, and please be advised that it is not meant to cause harm, but to raise awareness. It is unintended to target a particular group, sect, or audience. Please read with caution, at your own discretion. I did not meant to be pessimistic.

In both movies and in reality, I have seen what happens when humans die. For example, one dies and only after a month people starts to notice that the individual was missing. After looking for the deceased with concern, they find that the passing individual was rotten in their home and a repugnant aroma is emerging from their place of residence. In another words, when they died, they had no one to care for. 

On the other hand, I have seen people die, and over 200 people attending their funeral services, flying across cities, countries, and even continents. So many obituaries were written, and so many people visited their home after they are no longer present. I may have to speculate that they had so many acquaintances, friends and relatives. 

Why is this so? Because, if we speculate, one was friendly, informed, educated, was an extrovert, had a family, friends, social activity, and so on, but not the other one.

On a different note, if we look at animals dying, the carapace remain to be rotten, no one covers the body, no one burns it, maybe they get eaten, or dissolved by nature.

The contrast between the two species or scenarios made me to reflect. What if the meaning of human life was to be different? Different in many ways, and one way in particular, just poked my attention, that is being social. That is to be different from animals. That is where all things become emotionally distressing. What if, from the start, we are supposed to be so social and undertaking so many good deeds that after we die, the people we helped, cared for and acquainted, care for our remains. That eventually, our deceased body does not left to decay and rote alone before it has taken care of by nature. No matter how it is taken care of, put either into a coffin and buried six-feet under, burned, or any other way.

Of course, one may speculate that circumstance(s) may influence the outcome of any of the two human scenarios, but in the absence of unexpected circumstances, would these scenarios teach us something?

I wonder if we are expected to be social in order to cover our A** after we die. So after all, there is purpose in life!! Don’t you think?