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What is Life?

A view of Yoksum village, East Sikkim.

I am at an evolutionary stage of understanding where I seem to have found the convergence of intellectual, emotional, and spiritual viewpoints. I find it absurd to chase life, develop a deep desire for something, or have ambitions. It feels as though the world is moving in a direction where nothing truly matters. Moreover, no matter how much effort a person puts into striving for something, favourable results are never guaranteed. An individual receives what they are destined to have. What is meant to be yours will find its way to you, sometimes in the most unimaginable ways.

Beyond that, a person might dedicate their entire life to something and yet achieve that which ultimately holds no significance. There is no lasting legacy, and even if there is, who will remain to witness how it unfolds? I understand this perspective may seem distant from the common way of viewing life, but the indeterministic nature of death invalidates everything.

I believe the only right way to live is to live the right way: to improve each day, to become a better and more complete human being, and to live fully while serving the world and its ecology. It means doing things that bring joy, learning, adapting, staying true to oneself and others, and ultimately returning parts of oneself to nature, just as we came together in the first place.

Everything in this universe is composed of vibrations, including us. If we can become, and thereby contribute, a good vibration—our own little harmony—to the greater rhythm of it all, we align ourselves with the essence of existence.

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