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The meaning of life found at an estate sale
Everything you have worked for will be sold — cheap — at an estate sale. It sounds sad but there is a deeper meaning.
It always struck me as sad when we went to estate sales, and it taught me about the meaning of life itself. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying things, or even collecting things, but they are not life. No matter how much or how little you attain, it will eventually be sold at an estate sale. Cheap.
“Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.” .. Ecclesiastes 1:2
So what then is the purpose of life? Why are we here? I am not sure I have the answer, but what we have is our life and we can do what we want for the most part. Maybe that is the purpose — to enjoy the life we have been given. Maybe it would be better to just enjoy life instead of looking for some mystical meaning that we can’t really even define.
12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all…
