Hi Steemians,

Today, we are going to try to explore our imagination and begin to wonder(not question) the existence of LIFE itself.

Who are you? Where does the world come from?

These questions are still lingering in my head until now from the moment I could actually read, understand and conceptualize things.

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I have always believed that something must've come out from something like apples from the trees, wind from a fan, heat from a stove or you from your mother.

However, have you ever wondered if something actually came from nothing?

I'll try to take you to a journey in my messy, wild yet full of astonishment mind.

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When asked the question, who are you? What comes into your mind?

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I mean, scientifically speaking, I am the byproduct or offspring of my parents. I am the result of their genetic combination when they mated.

We don't want to go into the details of that as it is both awkward and insignificant for this discussion.

Though if I'm asked that question, "What is my purpose in this world?" follows.

Religiously speaking, I am created to share the love of God and exist to be morally good.
But have you also thought that you can't experience being alive without realizing that you have to die?
It is just as impossible to realize you have to die without thinking how incredibly amazing it is to be alive.
Confusing? Indeed.

The second question is "where does the world come from?"

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Now, what comes into your mind when asked that question?

Initially, I would assume you would think that God created the world.
This is along with the sun, planetary bodies and everything here in the universe.
This is also known as the creation theory.

Scientists say otherwise.

They said that the world is the product of gradual atomic processes that evolved from the smallest particle ever conceived.
They also said that there was this Big Bang Theory that gave birth to our planet along with the others.
I don't want to go into the details of that as it is boring and only a number can appreciate.

So I have been answering those questions into two different perspectives: God and Science. I will try to insert a third element: "the" and "my" philosophical perspective.

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This made sense and my curiosity was supported when I read the book of Jostein Gaarder entitled Sophie's World.

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Let us start by imagining a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat.

Scientists would think that it is a trick, and there was like a component that enabled the appearance of the rabbit.

People who believe in creation would think that this is intervened by divine power or simply magic.

The world is like the rabbit being pulled out of the hat and we are the tiny creatures living in the rabbit.

Both then accepted that the rabbit thrived to exist.

As for myself, and for the philosophers, either interpretation can be accepted but with a twist.

In a grand scheme, scientists and philosophers know that this is a trick, that something cannot come out of nothing.
A scientist premise is still but flawed because of some questions that still can't be answered.
Again, we don't want to go into the details of that.

People, may it be scientists or God-believers are so accustomed to their contained belief and routine that they are the creatures that snuggled into the fur of the rabbit until they die.

So, you and them are confined to the idea of peaceful living and begins to lose the faculty of wonder.

Philosophers are the creatures that tried to climb into the rabbit's fur to try to see the Magician and ask why.

Is it starting to make sense? I am going to cite another example.

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I am going to use Plato's all famous "Allegory of the Cave" as shown in the picture above.

When you see the world, you see movement of different systems, people, cars, trucks, plants and animals in a harmonious manner that this is what you accept as the reality.

That this is the world we live in.

Have you ever thought differently?

In the allegory, picture that routine, same old, same old routine as people tied in caves unable to turn their heads wherein behind them is like a bonfire.
All they can see is the wall of the cave from where they are facing wherein puppeteers carry and move objects. In the "real" world, outside the cave, are people, plants and animals moving in their normal manner.
Imagine, that they can only see the shadows but that is their reality.
What the people see and hear are shadows and echoes casted by objects that they do not see.
That is our accepted society.
However, when someone breaks the tie and tries to go outside.
He will see the wonder, the truth.

Unfortunately, when he comes back and explains the color and the "truth," he is either condemned or killed. People fear what they don't understand. That is the harsh truth.

So, be like the child that never loses his/her astonishment. Explore your capability to wonder.
Anything is possible even if we haven't seen it YET.
I am going to finish this article by again asking these questions: Who are you? What is your purpose in this life? Where does the world come from? Why does the world exist?

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THANK YOU