Communication is at the heart of being human. It is how we relate to one another.
Everybody wants to belong, to be connected to someone or something. This is evident from the lives of the deceased, from the revealed relationships with one another; between husbands and wives, mother and son, between friends, young lovers, a doctor and his patients, between priests and their Gods. There are feelings of love, hate, deceit, anger, disappointment, worry, hope, jealousy, heartache, etc. What happens when we die? We will have so many unresolved issues, chances we could have made up in relationships, all taken away without closure or remedy, without finding any meaning.
What really remains after we pass on? What becomes of the human consciousness? Will we only be alive in the memories of the living? What happens when there is no one left to remember you?
We don’t know when death will come for us. How does one get ready for an event that is inevitable yet unpredictable? Maybe the best anyone can hope for is to have loved and to have been loved in return and that, when the time comes to leave this world, to have few regrets and to know that you belonged and left peace and kindness in your wake.
The true meaning is having lived. That is the meaning of life.
