Would it be?

And I wonder, like many other times, what's the meaning of life.

When things are old, they wear off and become broken, in need replacement. Replacing things cost money. 

When we are old, we fall sick easily, health fails us. Healing our bodies cost money. 

We work harder to earn more so that when time passes and things and us are finally old, we would have accumulated enough money to afford to pay off and solve these problems. In the meantime, the cost of living rises at a rate where salaries and profits can never keep up with.

When young, we study hard to be the best in class, to win in sports, and achieve awards. When we step into the working society, we strive to land the best possible job with the highest pay, to go as far as we can go in life. Through the years, we never stop at progressing; if we could achieve more, the right thing to do was to do just that.

Besides that, the point of it is so that we could too, lead a higher standard of living; to climb upwards and be the respected top of society than be at the uninspiring bottom. We earn more so that we can afford the finer things in life that brings more comfort; it is your reward for working so hard. 

Isn't this like a hamster wheel, where the faster we run, the faster the wheel spins, yet keeping us at the same spot? The more we sacrifice in order to get more, the larger the void we create for ourselves to fill. In the end, it is no different from putting in less for less, so that we need less to arrive at the same point of happiness. 

What's the meaning in this? 

Striving hard in hopes of getting more, where it would have also cost us more. Spending more time to make more money, in hopes that more money would buy us more time. During that process, we convince ourselves of the story that someday, it will all be worth it; that the effort to reward ratio would turn into an inverse relationship; working lesser but getting more - that hardly makes any sense, this lie we tell ourselves, hoping that a miracle would someday, somehow present itself before us, in which this present reality would magically change to change our lives forever. Then, that's when we would be really, truly happy, so much more happier than we are, right now.

If such are the facts and truths about the world we live in, why are we even alive in the first place? I reckon there's a universal meaning and reason behind it, especially if a divine source or a creator exists. If you had a choice would you choose to be alive or be non-existent? My gut tells me that the right answer should point to the former but what's this reason and meaning behind it?

Some say, it's "love". 

If love be the answer, why are we putting ourselves on this wheel of illusion, making this pursuit more complicated that it actually is? 

It absolutely makes little sense to be working hard, sacrificing bits of oneself and one's life, to bear with more unhelpful, external influences, just so one could earn more, have more, satisfy oneself more, all just to arrive at contentment or happiness.

In between this, we would also try to distract ourselves with the internet, gadgets, social media, fine food, clothes, material posessions, enhancing and altering our physical appearances, seeking sensory experiences to fill our mind and senses with objects of sensory pleasure and gratification so that we can feel better and happier, less empty and sad. We cope with everything that we are going through by doing this, by distracting (and even numbing) ourselves from the present state of reality that we, voluntarily or involuntarily, trap ourselves under.

So what if you have built a business empire, had a very successful career, spent a lifetime acquiring posessions and status, playing the game that everyone plays, dedicating 90% of your life to it, while delaying this happiness and love, just so you could finally "achieve" it after this self-created or societal's notion of success have been fulfilled, when the goal is right in front of you all along?

Would that kind of happiness and joy of the future be any sweeter than today's?

So, you yoga.