What's the Meaning of Life? The feelings of highs & lows! The Cycle of Life!

Do any of you ever have this feeling where one moment you are up in the sky. And the next you are feeling 'kind of lost', 'listless'? The feeling that you are just living your life mundanely, routinely? The feeling that somehow you haven't done or achieve much in your lifetime? That life is so full of uncertainty?

That when you think of all the responsibilities you have on your shoulder, the many more years to come, it kind of scares you and depresses you. Because it's your responsibility to make sure it all turns out well. Would you not then have the thought to want to escape from all these? To just want to get away to a place that no one knows you, that you can just live life the way you want to live because there's no one that you know off to judge you?

It's easy to preach the Buddhism teaching, 'to just live for today', 'to not dwell in the past', 'to not worry about the future', 'to just be aware of the present moment'! But in reality we know that's not possible unless you are a nun or monk!



I have a good friend that just discovered she had cancer and she's only 40+, still single. She had given the best part of her life to her job. Now that she's recovering and having a good 2 months of MC, she just doesn’t know what to do with her time. She wanted to go back to work because that's her security. Without her routine of working from Monday to Friday, she's just kind of lost. Now she's trying to rediscover herself, discover her interests.

And as I sat here in this quiet evening, looking at the cars passing by, all either going back to their home, their family or going for their social events, as I think of all the hundreds, thousands of people that are doing the same, I wonder how are they feeling?

Have you all ever wonder about this cycle of life? Our children and their children and their children’s children and their children’s children’s children....will also experience what we are going through now. Is it really 'suffering' as Buddhism preaches?