FEAR !

All creatures fear unknown and death is irreversible passage to unknown. We all the time take calculated risk but against death element of calculation is missing. Death may not necessarily be termination of existence even if it is, what does it matter? If, however, there is life after death it’s uncertainty that causes fear in us. No matter how bad our present situation is, at least the consequences are known and we are coping with it. But we cannot reconcile to a position of uncertainty therefore fear any drift towards the unknown. We fear not necessarily physical harm to our being but also any alteration to our lifestyle having an element of uncertainty. To justify our fear we assign various objectives to life. But this is ridiculous. The truth is, we do not fulfill any of our own objectives but somebody else’s objective. How strange it would seem if a pawn in a chessboard acquires capability of thinking and starts on speculating purpose to its existence little knowing that it fulfills the objective of a detached grandmaster. In spite of well-documented and observed behavior of species that they exist to merely reproduce, humans due to their ability to think look for meaning in life. If there is meaning to life it makes sense to some remote entity in the same way as pawns exist for a grandmaster therefore on their own completely irrelevant. If we do serve some purpose in life, it is immaterial to us because it is a purpose meaningful to some remote entity....