Life is one big mind fuck and the longer your here the more it laugh’s in your face. The reason for it all…? Relationships, ebb and flow, ups and downs, betrayals, questions, answers, (know it all) douche bags. Around every bend, the swing at a curve ball; someone thinks they have found the truth, found life and how to conquer yourself.

Goal setting, achieving, making money, perfect body, driving the right car, the wrong food, the right food, becoming a billionaire, getting enough sleep, taking the right pills, drinking enough, not having enough. Parenting advice, relationship advice, career advice, exercising the right way, cross fit, not fit, yoga, pilates, resistance training, too much training. The right size, the wrong weight, body types, brand names, the in crowd, the out crowd.

Being human is not an easy endeavour in fact being human is our greatest challenge. Depending on the hand you’ve been dealt is how you’ll be shaped and more importantly if you allow it to shape you. Life either pisses you off and you curse its existence (or your existence): or you see it as a big scary toothy salivating dragon waiting to eat you.

Some of us die young, get cancer, others lose their parents as children, some raised in extreme ideologies, extreme poverty, hungry, sexually abused, physically abused, loss of limbs, wheel chaired for life, born with legs that don’t work, arms that fail to grow. A car accident where no one is at fault… a plane crash, a bolt of lightning, a hurricane, tornado, earthquake.

A child of wealth not knowing love, loss of a child, loss of spouse, the crippling fear of bankruptcy, death, losing your home, losing it all or getting what you want and no longer wanting it… Fame, recognition, adoration, success, Instagram followers, lots of followers, lots of likes, hearts, money, image, and loss of anonymity, loss of self, loss of time.

Balance… who decides? You!!! Us!!! Them!!! Government, religion, councils, teachers, gurus, experts, industry leaders…? Life is a mystery and being human is difficult. Anyone boasting an easy life is either completely full of shit or the shit is being removed for them.

Just the other day a 6-year-old girl was accidentally mowed down by an 86-year-old woman who made the mistake of putting her car in DRIVE when she thought it was in REVERSE. The little girl died. I don’t know the family of the deceased girl and I don’t know the elderly woman. It is this kind of tragic event that drives home the meaningless and the random which hit us like an asteroid impacting Earth.

Religion will give you a glossy answer as to why and how, it will even sound plausible and soothing. The guru will give you hope: that everything happens for a reason. The experts will tone down the rhetoric and give you a play by play of why it happened; even more importantly: how?

But do we really know…? What life is all about, or what is the purpose? Ideologies have a million scripts and caressing answers as to why and what its all for. I bet a thousand readers could give us a thousand answers… “Once more Unto the Breach, dear friend.” They would give us the skinny on why where here and why some die and others live.

Are we closer to knowing or further away? Are we all just afraid and our answers a result of our fear? Does religion exist because we are afraid…? Are we scared of the fact that know one knows, and the ones that think they know are the furthest away. There is no knowing, there is no anything, its boundless. Our fragile ego demands knowledge: because its scared of no longer existing…