Scientists claim that the world is billions of years old, and man's existence on earth is millions of years old. With all these years of man's experience of living life, nobody seems to know how to live life yet. The Preacher became angry at what his immense wisdom was able to make him discover about life, that life is a cycle of vanities.
The cycle of the vanities of life seems to be a pulling momentum, drawing everyone into it without any power or choice to resist. Life is a vanity, but nobody wants to stop or know how to stop it. The knowledge or the ignorance of life's vanity does not matter as that vanity affects all men.
Life is all about trying to do the same things for almost everybody. The young wants to grow old and the poor wants to get rich. The rich wants to get richer and foolish wants to get wiser. The tenant wants to have a house and the cleaner wants to be a director. Everything about life only revolves around wanting to achieve something. Still, nobody has discovered how to live a better life.
If it has been agreed that life is a vanity, and the pursuit of it is not a way to live a better life, then how can man live a better life? If man knows life as a vanity and decides not to chase it, it still doesn't mean that man has chosen the right part. From the monk in the monastery to the CEO on Wall Street, nobody can determine who is living the better life.
If man is lucky to be able to pursue and acquire vanity, fellow men would point out that it is a worthless venture. Man will point out the ultimatum of death and ask what the point is in chasing vanity. The pursuit of vanity can only be a worthy venture if men don't die, but when men die, then the folly of the lives they had lived is revealed in the magnifying glass of helplessness.
If man decides not to chase vanity, fellow men would point out that it is a worthless venture. Nobody seems to want to align themselves with people who are assumed to lack ambition and purpose. If man does not pursue vanity, he lives like an enemy in the midst of many friends. Vanity is not worth chasing, but unvanity is a greater absurd to the system of the world.
Life has been made to run on the wheels of vanity, so everyone is just hopelessly entangled in it's web. Life preaches chasing vanity, even though the same life will condemn it at death. Life also preaches unvanity, even though the same life will condemn it at death as having made no impact.
If man happens to find himself in life, then he shouldn't bother trying to set out on a course of determination of living a better life. Life is so wise to present two bad choices to man. Whatever choice man chooses would still be wrong. When two wrong choices are presented to man by life, then nobody can claim to be live right. If you have enjoyed this post, please share. Thanks.
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