INSIGNIFICANT HUMANS

              Insignificant Humans
                                                              By N P Samal 

The universe existed 10 billion years without life and may exist eternally without life. Life existed nearly 3.7 billion years on this planet before human evolution began about 5 million years ago, homo sapiens being roughly just 3 lakh years old, and may exist billions of years without human species. In other words, the universe is possible without life and life is possible without human species. But what is the meaning of the universe or the meaning of life without eyes to observe, mind to imagine, brain to describe the creation? What is the meaning of the creation in the unknown -- without recognition of the created? Who without vision will recognize the light? What is the meaning of the light to a blind? What is the meaning of the sun or the light of a day if animals and birds and plants do not notice anything of Nature other than their food and sex and children and their preys and predators, with no knowledge or consciousness of the whole existence? That, they are birds, animals or plants? That, they live in water, in land or in both? That, they take birth and live shorter or longer than others and die? That, they look beautiful or ugly? That they have furs or wings or leaves? That, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west? That, the rainbow appears after rain and on the opposite side of the sun? That, the moon waxes for fifteen days and wanes for fifteen days? That, the earth is the only planet yet discovered with life and life-sustaining elements in it?... That, they are alive on this planet for a short period of time? That, they will die any moment and not take birth again?... So, what does it mean if universe existed or not and will exist or not and if life existed or not and will exist or not if there were no humans to observe, imagine and describe the whole creation and the created in it -- living  or non-living, tangible or intangible, moving or static, beautiful or unattractive, permanent or transitory, sounding or silent, colorful or faded, bright or dark, flowing or flying...? Who, other than the human beings with their naturally fitted sensient brain, are capable of giving meaning to the existence of the universe of discourse and possibly be instrumental in giving the ultimate meaning to the life of the universe and why she created life with the human difference? Isn't her magnificent magical creation without human beings delivered a BIG NOUGHT?

Yet, what is the significance of millions of years' human existence, or billions of years' existence of life, or existence of the infinite universe, to just an individual human, like you or me, who has got a life just for a few years' time? What did the universe, or life, or humanity, mean to you or me before our birth? What will they mean to you or me after our death? On the otherhand, what did you or I mean to them before our birth and what significance you or I will have for them after our death? Does Mahatma Gandhi's life, or life of Abraham Lincoln or Alexander or Tolstoy or any other revolutionary, scientist or renaissance man, or even the whole extraordinary and ordinary lives, all who are dead now, taken together have now any meaning to the universe and her functioning? To sun, to moon, to stars...? To growing of plants, to flying of butterflies, to falling of snow...? To the existence of whole things now? To their appearing and disappearing?

What meaning do spectacular works of the miraculous Creation, its grand states and events, its source from the incomprehensible depth of the past and its secret purpose of going into the future have to you or to me or to any other human existing now, who will vanish into the eternity anytime soon and be untraceable, invisible, imperceptible for ever? What does the taste of meat or wine or feats of physical prowess now mean to Milo of Croton dead from 6th century B.C.? What either does the Hammurabi Code now mean to the king, the encoder, dead for even longer period? Or to Ashoka, or to Chandragupta, or to Einstein, or to Newton, or to numberless other humans, whose works have defined the quality of our present life and living that we consider far better, more purposeful, more luxurious than theirs? What rights of life do they have now? Why had they got to live, being less privileged than us, and die for our cause? What worth will their works have on us after our death? Why have we got to die if we feel us privileged humans and rightful of living? And why have we got to die for further cause -- to make future life more enjoyable, more privileged and more purposeful than ours? What's then true purpose of the mortal life? For whose purpose are we living and for whose purpose are we dying? Nay, why have you, or I, taken birth, after millions of years of human birth, and why will we die, forever, before the future humans? Why did you or I not take birth in an ancient time and why did you or I not wait to take birth in a future time? Why have you or I taken birth now, as a privileged human -- more privileged than ancient humans and less privileged than the future humans? 

What purpose does your life have, or mine, with our infinitesimal experience of life and inspection to this infinite universe? What purpose did the ancient humans have of their life? What purpose will the future humans have of theirs? What did one in the past experience the life in his or her short life span that was different from or similar to what I or you do now? And what experience of life will a future human have that will be different or similar to mine or yours? Can we imagine that our life that we take so seriously now -- by name, by capability, by achievement, by identity -- is just a momentary self-acknowldgement? Does Gandhi now feel himself he was born in India, studied in England, worked in South Africa, back in India fought for country's independence, lived 78 years and was killed by Nathuram? Does naturalist Darwin now experience his adventurous voyage around the world, his empirical observation of birds, animals and plants, the time he spent in the Galapagos, his occupation in South America's jungles and mountains, his development of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection, his 73 years of life and his death in a heart attack? Do Renaissance greats, Michaelangelo and Leonardo, now know this is 21st century and 8 billion people of the world now deify them and their great works of David and Mona Lisa,  respectively? Do those others who created wonders on the earth now know the planet is existing with changes in seasons and climates, with day and night, with rivers, seas, oceans and mountains, with animals, birds, plants and humans, with floods, droughts, cyclones and earthquakes, with the heavens over head, with sun and moon and stars? Do even our own grandparents, in case they are dead, know or remember they had a thousand indoor funs with us when we were children? Does my grandfather now look at how I played hide-and-seek with him and one day while playing with him, I hid myself and he could not find me out until my mother discovered me in the kitchen? Do our ancestors now watch the historical documentaries showing how the foreign invaders invaded them, or how the Romans crucified Jesus in front of their eyes, or how in front of their eyes people perished in cholera or in the gas chambers, or how their civilization collapsed due to natural catastrophe, war, pestilence, famine, economic collapse, population decline, or mass migration...?

Do all who are dead now know we are now alive, using 5G technology, benefitting from artificial intelligence, entertaining our soul by watching OTT movies, being euphoric at the stadia,  relishing on the world's most palatable cuisine, window-shopping at supermarkets, adorning self with exotic outfits, maintaining trendy lifestyles, touring the world on holiday packages, competing for jobs, supporting a party and opposing another, accepting one religion and rejecting another, reveling over victory and mourning over loss, exploiting some and serving some others..., or discussing urbanization, environmental pollution, pandemic outbreaks, culture shocks, assimilation, Russia-Ukraine war, nuclear stockpiles, biological warfare, terrorism, traffic accidents..., or debating over god and science, and love marriage and arranged marriage..., or worrying about work-life balance, obesity, aging..., or reasoning on Frankenstein, crypto currency, cohabitation, prostitution, prohibition, mercy killing, corporal punishment...?

Yet, on the other hand, do we worry about our ancestors any bit because they could not live upto the present to live like us? About Graham Bell because he is not alive now to use a smart phone? About Louis Braille or Helen Keller because they are not alive to get a pair of bionic eyes each? About long gone revolutionaries, explorers, crusaders, reformers, literateurs, philosophers and other creators of the modern civilization because they are not alive now to enjoy modern amenities? About ordinary other humans who lived humbly and died humbly and not alive to live a comfortable life on government schemes, subsidies and other benefits? Even about our own great grand parents to share our pride, our betterness, our augmented life?

Those who are dead are dead forever with their relevance. We know the relevance of our life to us shall not remain relevant any more than till our death. Pain, pleasure, pride, humility, wants, fulfillment..., all will be irrelevant. And we know the future generations shall not need us to be on their side for their living of life, their working, their eating, drinking, bathing, dressing, grooming..., to prod them to win, to give them standing ovation..., to share their comforts of life with us, or their dishes, their habits, their health, their pride... And also we know if we lived successfully till our death, our grandchildren may not live so till their death, for, we know, successful living depends on several factors like ecosystem, environment, climate, biology, personal physiology, psychological state, accidents, etc., and know we are not in the same economic, political, environmental, societal, demographic features now and even we are not the same as our grandparents. 

And we -- you, I and other living humans -- know that any moment soon our death will deliver our life a BIG NOUGHT. And we know that the life of our successors shall be nothing more than a momentary spark. That, we know life is too brittle, too momentary to live. That, one too humbly dies to disease or accident or snake bite or heart attack or bomb or bullet as well as to cyclone, earthquake, flood or fire... That, one dies an infant, another young, yet, another fully grown... That, death preys on a child and an adult, a pauper and a king, a servant and a master, a coward and a hero, a sufferer and a physician, a victim and a victor... That, death, before preying on us, harasses us, robs us of our pleasure, happiness, love and living rights; inflicts on our body and mind excruciating pain; dumps us in the afflicting bed to die... 

And we have accepted our death as ultimate. We know our life is mortal, has been mortal and will remain mortal. We know we cannot escape from death. We know Nature births us, grows us and kills us. We know this birth-growth-death process of Nature is automatic, and this natural process is equal for all -- from microbes to mamals, from hummingbirds to humans... And we know Galileo who died in 1642 has not been born again till now. Julius Caesar who even died many centuries before, in 44 BC, has not beenreborn yet. Neither have been Adam Smith (died in 1790), Genghis Khan (died in 1227), Aristotle (died in 322 BC) as well as many others we know from the beginning of the historical period, who died in different times, in different designs and from different causes have not come back yet. Neither will they any time in the infinite future. Nor will my great grand parents or yours. That, we know our own body will die one day, making our mind plunge into the eternal oblivion, and will never emerge...

Yet, we don't seem to be worried for our death. We are so forgetful of our insgnificant and momentary life that we die for living. That, in our desperation, we exploit others to overfeed us and grow, malign others to get us honor, kill others to let us valiantly live... 

We are more a mind than a body. The body has its irreversible own mortal way of taking birth, growing, aging and dying -- its breathing of air, its pumping of blood, its building of muscles, tissues and bones, its eating and drinking, its digesting and deficating, its gaining and losing of senses, and its being absorbed into dust, at last. That, whole processes of body from birth to death are automated simply by food, water and air. That, we only have got to get foods, water and air, all from Nature, as required by the body for its automation -- through childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age, for a transient span of life... That, this short existence of body requires a little protection from Nature's aberration of bushfire, lightening strike, cyclone, volcanic eruption or flood, or from her occasional mischiefs of extreme weather conditions, or from avoidable risks of snake bite and wild ambush... Yet, the universe mothers us in her plentiful Nature and nurtures us enough with care for our joyful living. She feeds us on nutriements, of nuts, pulses, grains, fruits, vegetables and berries from her imperishable food reservoir; amuses us with her vernal breezes, summery zephyrs, wintry warmth; delights us with her floral fragrances, fructal aromas, balmy perfumes; entertains us with her charming songs perennially in voices of winds, rains, rivers, streams, birds, babies and bees; immunizes us with her herbal elixirs and other nectarous resources; pampers us with her exotic shows of the rainbow, silvery clouds navigating the azure sky, twinkling stars, graceful moon, alluring sunrise over glittering seas, towering mountains, velvety woods and lifesome meadows as well as magnificent sunset down the tawny heavens over the designer horizons... 

The beautiful provisions for life in Nature need a little organised mind to avail all for a healthy, happy and satisfied living and for a little time from birth to death. But our mind ignores the reality of life within the body and wanders away in search of 'life of recognition'. That, unlike birds and animals, we each wish to be recognized in the public. For this recognition, we each wish to be unique and struggle for that. The bigger the public, the stronger our wishes and harder our struggles. And behind our wishes and struggles, there lies our sublime interest of being appreciated, for, public recognition is synonymous with public appreciation... 

Yet, our conscious mind fears the truth of death and fears not being born again. It secretly nourishes the wish for our immortality and so romances different 'immortal myths', of god, rebirth, soul, spirit, animism, ritualism, and other vague concepts, in desperation, to remain deathless for as long as we can think back and as long as we can think forth. Or at least in the form of animals, birds, plants, stars or monuments, or at best in the bodies of our progenies. And thus our mind dwells in the dual state of fact and fiction, fun and firmness, hope and despair, acceptance and rejection, seize and sacrifice, peace and violence. Such duality of mind cries for Gandhi's death, yet idolizes Godse; looks down upon Pol Pot, yet marvels at Hitler; banishes a man who has committed a crime, yet hangs the photo of Sobhraj on the bedroom wall; hates a prostitute, yet celebrates over Sunny Leone; feels hitting an animal is a cruelty, yet devours mutton, chicken and fish; abets a loser to commit suicide, yet encourages another loser to kill the winner and reasons with yet another to strive on... 

Many other such paradoxes nestle in our mind causing constant conflicts, confusions, competitions and sundry struggles among us that we with desire to bring us a societal order for peaceful living, have given birth to a system -- the State -- what our intellectual mind sees it a necessary evil. That, the State is a human system and humans have formed it more necessarily for thei artificial mind than their natural body. That, while our body is a product of the material world, our mind effects a psychological life that diverts from the physical life and wanders away into theology, superstition, bigotry, racism, sexism, caste system, elitism, skepticism, paganism and other unfounded and fabricated thoughts, beliefs, systems and practices that have developed and been existent since the ancient periods and through different extinct civilizations... The cause is uneducation and nescience. That, while natural selection pulled us out of the savage natural wild, uneducation and nescience has drawn us into the murky prisons of artificial wild charactered with cesspits and stagnation, where there is no option but to live on sufferance and in resignation... We desperately want to make life meaningful, but in vain. And the human system, in form of the State we have designed, has only turned a draconian esoteric, to add to our woes! 

The State, in a bid to organize the people and provide the best governance, has sabotaged us and frequently derailed in its experimentation with a number of governmental engines down the time-line, strikingly like monarchy, military dictatorship, totalitarianism, colonialism, theocracy, aristocracy, oligarchy, socialism, communism, and, finally, best and most popular among all, democracy. But democracy, even with its distinguished political, economic, social, administrative and other organizational systems and structures, has drastically failed to stem the rot, as grow anarchy, despotism, tyranny, exploitation, corruption, hooliganism and various other crimes and offenses. So do grow frustration, indecision, sense of loss, meaninglessness of life... So do grow the divide between wealth and poverty, obesity and under-nourishment, wastefulness and wantfulness, laws and lawlessness... So do grow self-doubt, suspicion against each other, false love, antipathy, disloyalty... So do grow all vices... 

And the older grows our artificial wild, the denser it becomes, the darker and more intricating as well. Now, our mind is inhabiting an inescapably intricate jungle of artificiality, that we cannot truly see the beautiful natural universe -- the real heaven of immortality for human beings. We grow in our artificial jungle and die in our artificial jungle, being accurately more destructive than fierce animals of the wild, by our lethal technology. We deceive us believing that our artificial jungle is our ultimate home, so we cultivate more and more weeds, in a stiff competition, making the home more fatal by the time. We love the weeds, live on them, drool over them, then lose them to winners, thugs, swindlers or muscles in our obscure home of poor visibility. We harm others, we harm us, we commit murders, we commit suicide... Yet we cannot solve the nuance and believe there lives in our artificial jungle a supernatural power that creates us, decides our fate, protects us, promotes us and then destroys us, at death or mostly before death, as an infant, an adolescent or a young. Our forgetfulness of our real essence as a unique human species grows deeper as grows our subjectivity to our artificial home that favors the mighty, the corrupted, cronies, exploiters and other devils in the garb of meritocracy. And in our mad pursuit of never-quenchable taste of artificial merits, we race behind the deceitful pied piping of kakistocrats and kleptocrats to death. So then, our whimsy for public recognition, or otherwise, public appreciation, is nothing but a dangerous self-deception. And, most rationally, we all are 'lost in the wilderness'. 

Thousands of years ago, humans had walked out of the natural wild, leaving their arboreal ancestors inside the thickets. As they came out, they saw the limitless sky, boundless earth, alluring light all around... They saw the sun rising from one side and plunging into the other, the moon growing from crescent to full and then from full to crescent, stars twinkling countless and becoming brighter in the absence of the moon, the sun being hot at one time and less or least or more or most hot at some other times, but the moon cool always, and stars providing some visibility in the moonless dark nights. They saw water rolling down from the snowy caps of the mountains, rivers and seas dazzling in mornings and before evenings, dark clouds covering the sky and falling as rain on them, chilling spread of hailstones disappearing into water, colorful rainbow striding the sky against the sun, birds flying in the sky in formation and not falling down, fish swimming and dipping into water and not getting drowned... The more they walked away from the wild, the more they became curious to explore more. In their quest, they crossed uplands, lowlands, planes, deserts, hills, waterfalls... They invented tools for protection, fabrics to cover their body, fire for cooking foods, wheels for faster movement, floats for crossing waters... They invented agriculture, built their community, devised crafts, arts and architecture, settled civilizations... Most importantly they discovered themself that they were unique on this planet and completely distinct from rest of the species, in life, in living, in thought, in behavior and activities... They were convinced they could break their limit, that they could fly like birds in the sky, swim like fish in water... They, then, started imagining, examining, comparing, contrasting, measuring, finding causes, calculating effects, reflecting, predicting..., then, creating, recreating, experimenting, devising...

In the meantime, they had come a long way, from the ancient wild. Human evolution had reached the age of science that began in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE, followed by 2000-year-old Greek view of nature that ended in the 17th century with the birth of modern science which began Scientific Revolution. And by now, roughly 2 to 3 lakh-year-old Homo Sapiens have created a human earth that has trounced the 3.7 billion-year-old biological earth which swallowed long-lived mighty dinosaurs and other giant megafauna. Science is now emerging as the most powerful weapon, most accurately, Creator's Weapon, in the hands of modern humans to decimate any harmful biological forces like pandemic; to dodge any destructive mundane forces like flood, cyclone and earthquake; to thwart any astronomical disaster like the Big Impact; to reinvent and recreate themself as, in Harari's term, Homo Deus and keep the inevitability of biological death at bay. The possibility of humans turning gods and being omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent and immortal is now beckoning. Charles Darwin in his book The Descent of Man has declared that humans have 'god-like intellect', and now we, by our intellect, have now started transforming us from 'bio-organism' into 'cyber organism'. The earth-bound earthlings are now turning sky-bound astrophiles. We now get welcoming gestures from the boundless astrohome, with increasing discovery of life-supporting exoplanets. That, one day, we by our spiritual forces, will be able to vanquish mundane forces which cause aging, diseases and death.

Yet, in contrast, our own human system caters more to an artificially survival life than to a  naturally creative and conquering life. The artificial life survives upon human artifices which have confused our natural navigational antenna, leaving us ill-informed, ill-conducted, and sense-deprived, and, so, content in our subjection to the artificial wild. We seek illusively attractive artifices for pleasure, decide our fate of success and failure upon these artifices and are madly attracted to these artifices like moths to a fire. That, these artifices which look so alluring, highly desirable are maneuvered by a little of our natural brain and almost all of our ill-grown mind with the instruments of ruses, tricks, wiles and feints, and that, theoretically, for one artifice created, hundreds of seekers are made to complete for and finally the one who is privileged with money or power or expensive education lifts the cup, yet after much friction, scuffle and bloodshed... The winner loves to win again, the losers lose to compete again, all for recognition either in winning or competing to win, and this we abasedly call karma for which we penance, to which we relate God, soul, spirit, rebirth, etc., whose meanings are quite incomprehensible and nonsensical and made further abstracted in the obscurity of the artificial wild in which only apparent and glaring are deprivation, prejudices, injustices, inequalities, pains, anxieties, frustrations, humiliations, anguishes..., making our parallel savage wild a place for constant tumults, turmoils, revolts, rebellions, stampedes, skirmishes, violences... We are now living in such a modern wild where fatalities by far outnumber natural deaths, with accidents, homicides, murders, suicides and countless other human-made deaths.  

Our so-called modern civilization is obscured in the pell-mells of the madding crowd and precisely a pandemonium where lines disappear between morals and immorals, sins and virtues, goods and evils, facts and fantasies... You love me now, hate me then; see me now, unsee me then; know me now, forget me then; caress me now, push me then; as I get you gentle as well as rough, needful as well as needless, encouraging as well as intimidating, existing as well as non-existing... All are spinning around the maelstrom of artifices, being restlessly dragged into the treacherous hole of never-satiable mundane pleasures, and uncertain like the uncertainty of life. We are so obsessed with the fatal pleasures and so bigoted with our false meaning, or meaninglessness, of existence that we fail to look around and away at the limitless placid water of immortality that surrounds the hell of our troubled wild. That, we are so deluded by the mortal presentation of life that we cannot visualize the unexplored life of immortality which by the most fundamental logic of the Creation is certainly possible. But we are so lost in our ill-defined mean world that we are too hopeless and unoptimistic to look at our life's majestic and magical eternal outfield.

Our modern wild with all sociopaths and psychopaths in it is a starc deviation from what the human society was intended to be as of now and why the universe gave birth to the unique human species with a brain that is so potent and paramount that it in its volume, as small as about one fourth of that of a standard football, has held, theoretically, the whole mass and energy and the creative power of the mother universe, with capacity to re-create the universe filled with immortal humans. This gifted engine with its powerful creational features can be worked to force a way through all the destructive mundane forces that cause death and make us celestial humans. But, alas, our deviant mind has caused the derailment of our true progress toward the ultimate form of humanity. The biological evolution that had begun by natural selection of the universe billions of years ago has been waylaid by the artificial human selection and put stagnant in the regressive wild, leading to human extinction, as we exploit Nature and deprive her of life for our own artificial sustenance and in our restless pursuit of pyrrhic pleasure. A 'Bhasmasura' that we each of us have become will destroy us ultimately, in our own delusion -- the flawed mind of 'immortality' in the jaws of physical mortality. 

That, the purpose of the universe, if she created humans much later than the birth of biology, and after all other species and so uniquely different from them, is never a humanity with more a death than a life, with more a destruction than a construction, with more a hell than a heaven... All the songs and stories of humanity do nothing other than eulogize self-exploited human deaths, under the cover of the fallacious definition of life. That, for humans, life is not life without achievement and recognition and without victories and wins for which each struggles to win over the other, by fraud, by force or by laws. But the truth is that no one with biggest ever achievement and recognition or biggest ever victory or win, has ever yet been happy with life. We see all die with whole sorrows of the world laden on their face. For, one's achievement or recognition or victory or win is soon 'lost in the wilderness' and neither the universe, nor God, if you believe, has defined anything on any achievement or recognition or victory or win the modern humans are obsessed with. The obsession has pushed us to a condition which breeds pseudo sense of bliss, over so-called success, just like the mood under intoxication, but the same humdrum and gutted feeling once the effect wears off. Success like the effect of alcohol is so fleeting and in each modern human's heart and mind, the sense of anxiety, insecurity, unrest and fear is writ large. Yet, in our ignorance we long for the ill-defined life and ignore the undefined illimitable human paradise. 

Shakespeare eulogizes humans in Hamlet, "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! ... In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a God! ... The paragon of animals!" But, in contrast, we have raised us a paradox -- self-saboteur -- in the wild which prods us to move forward with science, then pulls us back to remain fixed to religion which has no elasticity nor universality. The mind sheltered in religion sees death is ultimate and creates confusion of living with grotesque definition of life, causing overwhelming artificial casualties.

Our mind is capable of looking back into the past -- to the point when the universe was born 14 billion years ago, and even the time before that, and can also look forth into the future, as long, and even farther... Such endless retrospection and endless prospection develops in our mind an abstracted consciousness which in turn acts as a powerful subconscious thought that we are timeless, that we are rightful of our life and living, while in our  realized  consciousness, we  see our death is certain and life is mortal. We have seen human species have died for three million years and other life forms for near about four billion years, each alive only for a span of a few moments to a few hours to a few dozzen of years. And, so, you, or I, or every other alive now, consciously think will certainly die some day and none will escape death. This confusion between conscious mortality and subconscious immortality has created in our mind the dubious theories of god, religion, animism, fetishism, monism, polytheism and other fuzzy practices, and led us to the prison of selfishness, ego and other artificial mental conditions like afflictions, destructive emotions, mind poisons, neurosis, etc., that feed on defilements like anger, anxiety, fear, delusion, doubt, desire, greed, hate, jealousy, conceit, depression..., which are responsible for the sham of 'subjective immortality'.

Immortality in mind is not immortality of body. Our mind thinks we are immortal but body experiences we are mortal. We are confused between life is everything and life is nothing. We are caught by these two opposing deals, and we take sides alternately, effected by situations. Hence so many conflicts and competitions and so many confusing doctrines... Hence cultism, casteism, racism, regionalism, sexism, separatism, secessionism, jingoism, colonialism, evangelism... Hence prejudice, blind faith,  witchcraft, animal sacrifice... Hence zealots, haters, terrorists, swindlers, sorcerers, egoists, misanthropes, fortune-tellers, mystics, satans... Hence vegetarianism and non-vegetarianism, extremism and fatalism, modernism and traditionalism... Hence each with love as well as with hate, with sympathy as well as with antipathy, with blessings as well as with curses, with happiness as well as with sorrow, with acceptance as well as with rejection... Hence you see me a friend now, an enemy then; innocent now, guilty then; caring now, careless then; extravagant now, miserly then; smiling now, frowning then; hopeful now, despairing then; peaceful now, aggressive then... 

The solution to all the problems of mortal life is immortality. Humans have got to be immortal. The mind that worships science does increasingly see the possibility of human immortality. By all logic, our immortality lies in our alternative living, which is dedicated to science. Science is our true redeemer, if we view the significant advances in genetic and neurobiological science. And the fact of the present scientific revolution in bionic life, AI, genetic science and other technological advancements strongly directs toward humans' turning an inorganism or immortal organism in the coming future. If what Yuval Noah Harari terms it as 'homo deus', in his famous book, Homo Deus, is any indication, humans are evolving to turn gods and become omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent and immortal. 

Hence, the true and ultimate meaning of human life is being immortal. We have got to unleash the full potential of our brain. We have got to open the Third Eye the brain contains. We will find the key to unlock the door to walk out of our own hell and transform self into the meaningful other human, the ultimate immortal form of the humanized universe, filled with absolute bliss and happiness.