What I also wanted to say: … as the fog of my youth slowly lifted a long time ago and I began to think, the questions also arose: Who am I, and why am I here? Is there a meaning to life, or is it governed solely by chance?
Am I the grain of sand in the Sahara, which moves when the wind blows? Or am I the creation of a higher power that has given me a purpose? For chance, for a grain of sand, I am probably far too complex, too intricate. Can chance accomplish that? Creation is so beautiful and so ingenious; I cannot attribute it to chance. But who is this ‘higher power’? Even for it, knowledge and clear evidence apply.
Doubt belongs to every great faith. Can I make a choice? I probably must, for I need a life plan. If I am the grain of sand, it is simple: I stay still and wait for the wind. If I believe in a higher power—God—it would be good to know what He wants from me. A new search begins. If He made me, He probably loves me. What does the lover want? That His creation is well. But when is the creation truly well? Who provides the answer?
After much pondering, the words of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from The Little Prince come to mind: the greatest joy of a person is the joy that arises in another person, which, through my actions or the joy created in the other, returns to me as my own joy! Has the meaning of life been found?
A long time ago, I asked myself, who am I. Now I at least have an inkling of why I am.
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Your Dr. Werner Waldmann
Founder and Honorary Chairman of the Austrian Doctors
