Life for all
we humans has a universal bottom line that explains things. When all the muss
and the fuss is scraped away from daily living, we all live to find
significance in our existence. Life is a
search for this significance. All that
we do, every decision we make, is in some way influenced by our universal and
individual search for some quality that makes us worthy of attention. Life will end when we lose all hope of finding
this “sig factor”. We may be breathing for a short while but
without this hope in our gut, we are already dead.
This may
sound like cruel news, dark and foreboding but it is our human condition. It is true for each of us and every day is an
exercise in either searching for the sig factor or settling for some temporary
fix to avoid the darkness. Sure, the fix
may be a chemical high but just as damaging to the search is settling for the
supposed good life, whether that life is a person, place or thing. By definition, the good life is only temporary. The Ray Conniff Singers sang about our human
temporary dilemma, “Here Today and Gone Tomorrow”.
G. Goslaw
Landers, CA
