The Point in Life

What is the Point in Life? It’s a question every child will ask one day or another. The answer they receive will make a profound impact on the rest of their lives. But what do you tell them about the world’s greatest mystery that no scientist has been able to solve and no two sides have been able to agree on?

When I was thirteen and working in the knee deep mud of a strawberry field with my mother, I asked her this question. At first she was flabbergasted and speechless, but she soon came up with the theory that it is to be happy and to enjoy life. So then I asked how humans happened to be made and why life even bothered to live at all. Not being Christian, my mom could not tell me that it was to bring others closer to Christ and await the day when I would make it into Heaven. My mom just changed the subject and I forgot about it momentarily. But it has plagued me in the darkest hours of the night, like a nightmare that has kept me from peace and sleep. I am sure many bright teens have wondered the very same thing.

What do some of the greatest people in the world have to say about the issue?

James Jeans says: “Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties” (1930).

Grandma Moses says: “Life is what we make of it, always has been, always will be” (1950).

An Italian Poet says: “Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge” (1321).

John Keats says: “Is there another life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering” (1820).

Mark Twain says: “When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained” (1900).

Stanley Kubrick says: “The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed” (1999).

Matt Groening says: “All life’s answers are on TV” (1990).

The King James Bible says: “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female

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