Life Is Neutral

Sometimes life takes things from you, and it changes you in a way where you can never go back to who you once were.

Grief takes over and sits there, like a cold observer, knowing nothing of deservability or fairness, justice or human “goodness”.

It touches everyone and everything at some time or another.

There is often no rhyme or reason for the receiver, just as there is no reason for a bird to fall frozen to the ground in a Winter storm.

Life is neutral to our human experience, although we may make attempts at self-soothing by saying there is a purpose for everything.

Nature is neutrally purposeful in its intelligence and understanding of maintaining balance.

Humans are not that, and much of the loss and grief we experience has no purpose and is often a consequence of someone else’s human lack and ignorance.

It IS possible to make meaning out of those circumstances, to evolve through them, and gain lessons and wisdom, but that does not mean there was some predetermined purpose to our suffering.

Creation does not manipulate and punish to “teach” lessons, only humans do that.

Some who experience great tragedies in life CHOOSE to create meaning out of their experiences by becoming guides for others, and some become replicas of that which harmed them.

Is that purpose or intentional choice?

Do we ever really know?

Is there a purpose for children dying of hunger while billionaires sit on wealth that they can never possibly spend in this lifetime?

Did some Godhead decide THAT had a purpose?

Survival of the fittest has a biological purpose to carry on a species and does not include greed and malice.

Sometimes “purpose” is a simple justification for human patterns of disease and destruction, and sometimes purpose is the light of awareness and the choice to make meaning of the life we are offered.