Life

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."-William James

So reading this quote really inspired to me to go into depth about it. Spending your life on something that will outlast it. When we think of life, we often think what we can do with our lives, before realizing we have wasted half of our life trying to think of what to do with it. So why not spend it, why not give our life up, to have something that will last forever. A question that has run through everyone's mind is "When am I going to die?" This is the very default of life, it's unpredictable, and for those that like order and always knowing what is going to happen, (which I am going to step out on a limb and say it's all of us) the unpredictability of our life span is not pleasing for us.

So, why not spend it for something predictable? Something that will outlive our lives added up, and though math is not my strong point, it is safe to for me to estimate that is a LONG time. Another question that might have aroused in your thinking could be, "what could possibly outlast life?" The answer to this question is eternal life.

E·ter·nal –adjective 1.without beginning or end; lasting forever; always existing (opposed to temporal): eternal life. 2. perpetual; ceaseless; endless: eternal quarreling; eternal chatter. 3. enduring; immutable: eternal principles. 4. Metaphysics. existing outside all relations of time; not subject to change.


life
–noun 1.the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.


So know we have the dictionary definition of eternal and life. And now I ask you, are you able to comprehend eternal? I mean never ceasing to live, having no beginning and no ending. This is something that I can't even grasp. It is so crazy to imagine a life that has no end.

Something else that comes is not said is along with eternal life, you have no pain, no fear, no death, no lying, no hunger, no thirst, and no tears.

So I ask you again, why not give up your unpredictable, painful, comprehendible, short life; in exchange for a un comprehendable, amazing, never ending, life?