the meaning of life

God created Adam and Eve. They were the first two humans on Earth. They once lived in the Garden of Eden, which was a perfect place with no thorns or weeds, and where plants produced their fruit easily. It was also a place that had no pain, no frustration and no death. Hence, they used to live happily ever after. However, they did something wrong. Adam and Eve ate the fruit that was forbidden by God. As a result of their disobedience to Him, they were punished by Him. They began to experience spiritual death, and soon physical death. God expelled them from the garden. No longer would it be easy to harvest fruit. Thorns and weeds would make planting and harvesting hard labor. Men would have to work to eat. Women would give birth in pain. Animals became dangerous and carnivorous.

We know Adam and Eve once lived in the wonderland. We know they might live forever with joy and bliss in the Garden of Eden. We know Eve was deceived by Satan speaking through a serpent and ate the forbidden fruit. We know Eve then took the fruit to Adam and he ate it knowing he was doing the wrong thing. But why? Why Adam still wanted to eat the forbidden fruit even though he knew that action would bring sin into his world and lead him and Eve to another disastrous world? He knew what he was doing was correct. He knew they have fallen from the paradise to the real world. They couldn’t live longer anymore. They would die eventually, but they have chosen it. Were they silly? Would they regret what they have chosen? Who knows!! But my view is they have chosen their life. They might suffer from being sick and getting old. They knew they would face death one day too, but they were willing to face it together as they felt their meaning of life was being together, even death.

What I would like to mention is not the touching love story between Adam and Eve, but life. What is life? Life is just like a multiple-choice question. We choose the “answer” we want. However, there will never have the exact correct “answer” for this “question”. No one is responsible to grade our “answer” besides us. Some may choose to live forever with their beloved. Some may think of prosperity as their aim for their entire life. Some may think knowledge is the key to the fulfillment of life. What I want to emphasize is whatever path you choose, don’t let your life be filled with regret. We might not influence the world with our way of life. We are like a grain of sand in the desert. However, it doesn’t matter. What matters is who we are, what we are and the purpose why we are here.

Adam and Eve might experience the hard life they never had before. However, they might also have made the correct decision. Even though they couldn’t escape from death, they might have the wonderful time that they didn’t have ever before as they appreciated more the limited time they could spend on Earth. That was their meaning of life.

So, life depends on our mind. What you think your life should be, then that is what your life would be.