date: Thu 21 May 2026 04:35:35 PM PDT subj: why are you here. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Within the last year I saw a video on youtube, a man who looked in his twenties, his head was shaved, I thought his eyebrows were also shaved off, sitting in his car talking his camera. It looked uncomfortably warm, I could see sweat dripping from his forehead. As he was talking to the camera his voice was loud, and his expressions agitated, his words of anger. He was talking how several institutions demanded a share of his earned money, and how they had agents people expressing polices to increase the rate of extraction of his earnings for use of their services. In this specific instance automotive insurance companies. His anger at the cost just to live and make a living. I completely understood and empathized with his frustration. His anger, frustration, and story telling was captivating. During his complaint, he asked as well as theorized why he was even born, and in that question blamed his parents for his misery. He never asked to be part of this world and these ridiculous rules of society, that quite frankly don't make sense to many of us. He didn't ask for any of this, and he couldn't understand why his parents would do such a thing to someone. One of his theories was his parents were bored so they created him. This part I really had a problem with in terms of the pain, the suffering the man was testifying to, and the blame on those who brought him into the world he never asked to be part of. I find this odd because, a person not born under many philosophies can't specify a preference to be born or not born. In other philosophies, the choice was made by the soul being born via past actions, due to lacking understanding to escape the cycle of samsara. Nonetheless, I still think about this for my own children. I don't have such thoughts and questions for my parents. ------------------------ By the time this is read by a child, within the child regardless of age, some understanding of acceptance, of truth, and reality is likely to have taken root. Depending on what stage of life, this passage can illicit anger, sorrow, contentment, acceptance, or even joy. Certainly as the author of such a thing, different seasons of my life would produce a different writing. Over two years ago I have thought about portions of my reasons herein. Once while laying next to my wife, feeling gratitude and sadness for aunt Gere having past on, missing the moments we wish we could have with her now that we live closer to where she used to live. While we agonized why she had to go, and why any of us eventually have to pass on, the thought of all the people who have once lived and walked this earth came into my mind, the reasons for ourselves to be here then, and now. We make it have meaning. We make the connections and assign great meaning to them, even my kitty, her friendship has great meaning to my wife and I. Kitty has been with us for so long, her paws appear next to ours. ------------------------ Why are you here from one of the people who created you isn't that complicated, and if you're the person asking such a question internally, I hope this helps, and brings some level of comfort. I can say as your parent knowing such answers will not necessarily change the meaning of life, or lesson the burdens of it. Life has those things, its just part of living, and no matter where a person resides among various stages of life, and hierarchies amongst the peoples, toil and suffering always exits in their various forms. It is up to use to navigate them the best we can, with moral intentions, and if we are aware receive and give joy that arises between the crests of hardship. ------------------------ You are part of a great story that goes back millions of years. The story of humans existing through space and time, a great family of peoples living and dying, the life and death of us all are part of that story, walking the great sands of space and time. For you are the continuation of that great story, a wondrous journey continuing millions of years. Since our lives are relatively short, propagation of us carries us forward through the ages. There is no good, no bad, just us, all of us, you, all the people you know and who've ever been known, and those lost to us in time, but for those who were here before us, even lost to the vast distance of time, they were here, and help bring me to this moment, and even you in your time. You've been given a chance to live, and with every passing day a chance to continue the story past yourself by creating life, if you're lucky. The myriad of circumstances push and pull us like leaves blown in the wind, we do what we can to influence opportunities fall before us, revealing the paths we embark upon, ready of not. I was luckily to be find myself in the path of the most beautiful woman in the world to me. Over time again given the opportunity to create a family, lucky to help create a son and daughter. It is my hope if your wish and desires like mine you will also have a chance at creating a family, caring for it, loving it, feeding it, protecting it, teaching it, as best you can given the ever changing conditions life brings. In doing so you'll have your family carry on the journey of us all throughout time, just as your mother and I have done. Whether you create life, or support it, you are part of the wonderful and mysterious story of the human beings, and your footprints will be in the pages of time in the great book about the peoples of this world, our world, the world we live in. Your mother and I made a concious decision to accept the path of parents, caretakers, sacrifice as much of our selfishness as we can, in order to contribute the continuation of the great human story. We made that choice with love and intention, with our best hopes and dreams of creating and raising a family. Mother carried you in her body, through the pain, discomfort, and risk of her own life to see you to your birthday and beyond. One of the most beautiful as well as fearful moments of all experiences. She knew not what would happen, or what changes she would face during her time carrying you, nor after, or the impacts to her body, mind, and well being, but she went on every day, and every night, you being a testament to her perseverance. I did what I could to comfort her, and help her though all of it as best I knew how, but the toil and burdens were hers. To this day just over a year, all her love for you when you were in her body, is still there today, and even strengthened since those days. <3 All of us here need only remember we are part of a great story still being written, and each day we exist we get to experience a new beginning each day for no one really knows what circumstance will arrive tomorrow, except we are alive, and in that our hopes and dreams persist, and the veil of now lifts, and we have a chance to be grateful for today, for now, and what is to come, demons or angles, both have something to show us. Where are we all going? That is for us all to find out when its over at the end of time and the last of us are to end. Do your best to reduce the suffering of others where and when you can. Plant those seeds and if those loving intentions grow into others, they will propagate just like we have into the minds and ways of those carrying on our great story. In time you'll find your own answer to why you were created, and one day you might have to tell someone else why they are created. Know this and don't forget. However long you are here in this world, you are changing it, you have changed it. From the moment you were conceived. How big or small your effect seems now, can't be known, but those changes ripple through time like the ripples from pebble tossed in a pound fanning outward. Every small good deed ripples outward in time. Be it good you are here, and good will come.