Recycling or Is There More?

While waiting for my flight I noticed a few things. Next to me was a young couple with a 2 to3 month old baby girl who kept fretting although her mother tried to placate her by giving her a bottle of milk. However, she didn't want it and resumed her cries. The mother then walked off with her, probably to placate her. You know how some babies like to be carried and walked about.

A few feet away was a father, likely to be in his late thirties, carrying a little girl just over a year old and soothing her by caressing her head. Together with him were a boy aged about 4 and a girl who I think could be 7 years old. A family man probably going on vacation with his family or returning to his home after a holiday.

In front of me was an elderly couple, the man with white hair and his wife whose hair was grey mixed with black. They were obviously travelling on their own without any children in tow. Their children would be adults with their own families by now.

To me these people represent the cycle of life or should I say, the recycling of life. We all go through the same cycle, being born, nurtured and educated, get onto the treadmill of working life, find a mate,

build our nest and have a family,

then growing old,

thus renewing the cycle, generation by generation. Is this part of the Plan to ensure that the human race does not go extinct?

I read somewhere that we are energy and that we chose to assume physical form because we want to learn something or we need to learn something. There is a difference between want and need and I'm thinking that even at the level of energy, there must be a difference so that some can assume physical form in order to learn something to satisfy that want while for the others there is a need to further learn something which they didn't quite succeed in doing during their time on earth. So they are compelled to return to continue learning.

I hope you can understand what I'm trying to say. As forms of energy we are given a choice as to what we wish to learn, the time frame which we think will be sufficient for us to learn and also the manner in which we want to learn. In so far as that goes, it is also likely that we have even pre-determined our lives, the obstacles we will go through and the manner by which we will return to our original energy form.

Once we have assumed physical form, we forget that our lives have actually been planned by ourselves before we became human beings and so we go through the various stages of life, learning as we go, through our achievements and failures until it is time for us to check out.

Once we check out we are called to account for what we have done while in physical form, whether we have succeeded in our quest.

This is what I think must be the purpose of our existence on earth, to learn something, not merely go through the motions of living. God gave us a choice, what we want to do. What do you think?

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