Thought

               We live and we breathe, the life we are given is a gift by the universe itself, yet we have become so jaded that life itself means almost nothing to us.  I sometimes wonder if people really believe this is the only life we live, then why are they so careless with life itself.  Religion is also a question, because if you truly believe in your religion then how can you commit sin.  I submit a third alternative that may explain peoples mindset,  I think that unconsciously we know that none of these things are true and that we understand that life is just a state of mind.  I think that in the end we know there will be consequences and rewards for our actions on earth.  We instinctively know and comprehend that life is not the finality of existence and death is merely the transition between two lives.  We have spent so much time as a species attempting to prove what happens after death that we seem to have forgotten to ask the question of why we live.  Are we just random acts of meaningless life in the wide expanse of the universe? Or are we something more wondrous? 

                There comes a time in a person’s life when they begin to ask these questions, it may be when you are a child and full of wonder, or as an adult contemplating your future, or as an elder in fear of your own mortality in the rapid onset of frailty.  At some point we all ask these questions, questions I think we instinctively know the answers to.

                In Egyptian mythology when one dies the deceased’s heart is weighed on a great scale to determine their actions if their heart was heavy with misdeeds Ammit the Gobbler would eat their hearts.  I feel instinctively we know we will be held accountable for our actions but we also know there is no eternal pit of fire or heavenly chorus awaiting us.  I would like to think we all prescribe to the philosophy that what we do in life follows us to death and it is that mindset that will determine what happens after that.  I think if our heart is heavy with misdeed we will be made to learn from those misdeeds by experiencing the sorrow we inflicted on other, as with good deeds we will experience the joy we made others feel.  I do not think some all-powerful force or god is what deals out these punishment or rewards.  I think it is ourselves who met this out.  Inside we instinctively know right from wrong, with this we know if we are committing sins or kindness.  With this knowledge we decide our own fates when we pass beyond this realm.

                It is on us to make the most of this life and do the most good for what we do to others will be visited back upon us.  Or better said, what we do to others we do to ourselves.