What does life mean to us?

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Life is full of complications and contradictions to me. I don’t know what it really means to others.

Albert Einstein’s words told me a lot and prevented me from so many vapid and meaningless and endless medications and contemplations on it.

We were born to the earth, with no special aims. It is not like what is preached by some we have some holy missions to fulfill in this life. We are nothing but some kind of creature, a little different from other species since we are intelligent, imaginative and can think into the future. We can make plans for our future and we can do something spiritually fulfilling, which is beyond the powers of other species.

The fundamental tasks of most other species are searching for food and sleeping. We can do a little more than that. However in so doing we can’t say we are happier than them. Since too often than not, ignorance can stop us from being hurt. While enjoying the spiritual side of thing we are both made happy and sad. For example, the other animals don’t know what will happen after they depart. However we can clearly know that there is nothing but a permanent dark void after this life, which as a cruel fact intimidates us. 

That is why we cheat ourselves every day that life is full of glorious and meaningful things that we can have a desire for and try to attain. In this kind of self-delusion we may forget the punishment that has been doomed to impose upon us since we came to the world.  

Life is only something a little more than survival and that is perhaps the meaningful, the spiritual side of it.

I know we are all made of flesh and blood and one day or the other there is a disappearance of all, which makes my heart be laden with sorrow. I don’t what life really is and how I should live this life. Pensively in a vacancy I am whenever I think of this. Time and again I am sweated all over in the depth of the night when sleep fails me and I muse over such unsought-for medications.

To live a life as simple and innocent as possible is an idealistic style of life, just like what Tao Yuanming led. Nevertheless, surrounded by the clamors of the city, we can not find the place to live a life as a hermit.

You cleverest, please tell me what life really means.