Why am I studying right now? Why am I hard at work creating my model and cataloging and preparing for my crit next week? Why do I worry myself so much about what to say during my Oral Communication class? Why do I work so hard? Why do I toil?
Why do I seek a relationship? Why do I seek a female companion? Why do I wish for a female companion? Why do I hope to procreate? Why do I bother? Why do I toil?
Why do I rush everywhere? Why is everything a rush? Why do I hurry so? Why do I hurry and chastise myself for not moving faster? Why do I flit quickly to a place and quickly rush back home? Why do I toil?
For even if I become the President of the USA, with a thousand soldiers at my command, a hundred ships at my call, ten nukes for my leisure, a world in my hands, I will still be unsatisfied. I will be no more satisfied than a poor farmer with a sick cow and half an acre of rotting potatoes.
For love is a powerful emotion, but it is not necessary. It is not a need. It requires great sacrifice(s). I don’t need to procreate, I don’t need a female.
For there are two men, one is walking, the other is jogging. The jogger gains his distance, but both meet when they are stopped by the traffic light.
Nothing has meaning. What is the point of everything? For when you fade, there is nothing left. Everything you strove for and everything you hoped for, it is simply gone when you die. No man has ever had true satisfaction. The greatest thing you can have is not money. It is not bitchez. It is not power. It is true satisfaction.
So you feel better when you believe in a cause greater than yourself, to fill that empty void, to silence that little nagging voice in your head that asks; Why? To occupy your time. To keep yourself busy so that you don’t have to hear it, because you know it’s true.
You devote yourself to your nation. For Queen and Country, you live and die to serve. You pick up arms and fight for the greatness of your nation. But you know fully well, Empires rise and fall.
You work hard to fill your stomach. But in the end, the bangla worker building the flat that blocks the air flow into your rooms sleep is sweeter than yours.
So what? What for? For nothing. I feel like just leaving sometimes. Leaving everything, but not forever. To find a place of peace. Find somewhere to just sit down, away from everything. To sit down and get myself fully aligned to God. Somewhere to retreat for a while.
For ultimately, there is no purpose, no reason. All things end in the same way. But I know God is the answer. For in Him there is reason, there is purpose, there is peace, there is the true way.
But God calls me to a difficult path I hardly understand. It is a path I struggle to follow, which I feel I have to walk by myself. I feel that God isn’t speaking, but I know it’s because I’m not listening. Why then do I not listen? I do not know.
For in my view, I can only work to benefit two things. Either God, or myself.
Then why do I toil to follow God? I do not know.
And if not for God, then why do I toil for myself? I do not know.