The Meaning of Life

Music Junkie: God, what is the meaning of life?

God: Well… you know when you put a music CD on, or just select all the music files in your computer and play them? Sometimes you just hit the ‘random’ button, right? Just for fun… and then, you actually get a music you like and you enjoy listening to it despite the fact that it wasn’t one choice of yours in the first place. And you just get a good thing, literally randomly.

Music Junkie: Yes. But I already knew I liked all the songs. It’s my CD; it’s my computer, my music. So the odds of actually enjoying the song are close to 100%, right?

God: That is correct. However, the music was scrambled from the beginning. It’s like taking a card out of a regular deck: you know you have limited options, 52 to be exact, but you shuffle the deck so you don’t know what you’re going to get. You can get anything, limited only by the amount of cards in your hand.

Music Junkie: So, where does that get me?

God: That teaches you that, no matter how scrambled and chaotic everything looks from the start, no matter how random things appear, the ones that do appear, can be interpreted as good. Even if you think the odds of getting a good song were huge because you knew the CD, don’t you enjoy the song anyway?

Music Junkie: Yes, of course I do, if I like it.

God: Well then, the meaning of life is whatever meaning you give to it. You just have to learn to recognize good things and enjoy them when they randomly appear out of a seemingly chaotic and scrambled start.

I do believe God, Nature, The Universe, whatever you want to call ‘it’, if you believe ‘it’, has a way of showing specific clues in specific messages to specific people. Like using a music analogy when ‘talking’ to someone who loves music. We just have to learn how to read the signs.