In a subtle view, life goes on with giving and taking. With birth, we take identity-based values and with time till our middle ages generally, we keep accumulating things. After that, we start to give it back till we completely dissolve into emptiness lying six feet beneath the ground in peace. Summarizing the bigger picture, life starts with blank paper and ends exactly in the same place where we started. The process of giving and taking doesn't have any prominent meaning associated with the essence of life but is the way of life.
Doesn't it carry any meaning? Every earned asset will be transferred to someone else, the house built to live in will be occupied by someone else, those lands which were registered will be registered to someone else, and those people who are believed to be ours will forget.
If it is so, there arises a question what was our life for?
Essence of LIFE
Out of millions of paths that initiate from the cradle to the graveyard, One is accountable and has the right to choose one of the ways. It is crystal clear that life initiates with birth and ends with death. Some people argue that Birth is not in our hands and it goes with death too if it is so, how can the middle part be in our hands? in this sense, we can not decode the essence of life.
On the other hand, there is the prevailing concept of pre-destined life, one belief that whatever happens in our life is scripted before by someone, and we can not be involved in any deeds which are not written for us. In such a milieu, what can we extract is that life is futile to discuss because we act according to the already fixed sculptures, where lies life.
Besides these two, there is another distinct perspective which holds that Life is a blank paper, the one living must write on it, How it should be? According to this, the essence of life lies in how we take it.
Among these three, I believe the last one is a scientific one, my opinion, because our world is the projection of our mind and the core function of our mind lies in the way of believing how we are. We accept ourselves to be Christians at first hand then only we become Christians.
Last Question
Standing on the edge of the equation of the question deriving from the third concept of life as mentioned above, accountability for the life that we live lies in our hands. It is our choice to live to be religious or non-religious. It depends upon us to take avenues to be a social well-being or live aloof.
It is us, to imagine the face of a girlfriend on the bright moon and flow in the tune of love. Whatever value can satisfy the meaning of life, and we can live our life how we like it to live.
This is why, some saints say that there will be the last question that everyone has to answer is " What did you do with your life?" after our death.
MY OPINION
Everyone must prepare their own answer in this life. My life was religiously bound with the norms and values of Bibile, such an answer won't please the listener.
We have been granted life, the time to experience and realise the connection between nature and existence, their connection, their love and their dances. We can not waste our lives just backing ourselves to money or just lost in some attractions of this world or just we can not go with someone's assumptions.
One must find own answer so that we can answer our own at the last moment.