🔒 Discovering the Soul's Purpose: A New Angle on Life and Longevity

The question for today is why do good people die young and bad people seem to live forever? Now, this is a great question that's been asked since the beginning of time, since man can look around and see that life seems to be unfair, and one of the things that seems to be unfair about life is bad people get away with things, while good people don't. So I want to first of all say this is a very natural question. This is a very human question, and to be human isn't bad, but it does come from a very human-centric standpoint, and that standpoint is that this physical life, is that all that there is, or at least it's what really matters, and how long we live this life has something to do with the quality of our life or how much we deserve. Now I want to say the perspective of the soul offers, I believe, a different lens to which consider the matter, and I think it's one that finds a question to be almost nonsensical, and I don't say that in a derogatory or dismissive way, but that by the perspective of the soul.

That the idea of living a long life is necessarily a good thing is not necessarily true. Now, long life isn't necessarily reward, as I said, within the biblical context, though, longevity is often portrayed as a sign of favor from God, and we can see that in verses like Exodus 2012, out of your father and your mother so that you may live long in the land the Lord, your God, is giving you. Now. That's a very cultural, contextual thing, and this came about in a time where life was hard and life was usually short, so to live a long life was, first of all, rare, but it was also seen as a sign of favor from God. But if we look into this spiritual philosophy of many religious texts, you'll find the notion that life's trials and tribulations often serve a higher purpose for soul development, and it may or may not equate to a long physical life. And if you look at it this way, if we are living our lives well, if we're learning our lessons, then maybe we don't have to hang around as long. So maybe the fact that someone leaves early, instead of being a sign of disfavor, maybe it's a sign of they got their lessons done and they get to go home.

Now, another thing this question implies is that some people are good and some people are bad, and the definitions of good and bad are, of course, very subjective and they're shaped by our cultural, our moral and our personal beliefs. When we label someone as bad or good, we're really oversimplifying the complex tapestry that makes up a human being. We're all a little bit bad, we're all a little bit good. None of us is pure bad or pure good. So who are we to say who deserves to live longer and who deserves to live shorter? Again, even based upon the fact that life on this earth is somehow a reward for doing good or for doing bad, or punishment for doing bad. So, again, from the spiritual perspective, our lives may dictate that we are here longer to get our lessons, lessons that we planned this time around.

Now there's also the perspective of being eternal beings and the perspective of reincarnation. Now, I believe that we are eternal beings. I believe you're listening to this, you probably believe that as well, and I think most people listening to me are probably believe we are reincarnation also. So if we are eternal beings and if we're coming back here over and over and over again, then each time we're here is just a chapter and a very long story, and every time we leave is just turning the page to the next chapter. Some chapters may be longer, some chapters may be shorter, but it doesn't change the fact that we're an eternal being. Just because we might have a shorter chapter this time around, the soul continues to grow and to learn and have new experiences, even if we've only been here for 15 years in one case and maybe 90 years in another case.

The other thing I'd like to say is we really need to put a human life in context. Human life, in terms of cosmic time, is not even the blink of an eye. When you consider the age of the earth at about 4.5 billion years old, or the lifespan of, say, a redwood tree which can live for over 2000 years, our lifespan becomes even more humbling. It's just a blink of the eye compared to the age of the earth or some other living beings on this planet. So from the soul standpoint, again, I don't think the soul fixates on the amount of time we have in any one carnation. And the last point I want to make here before I conclude, is that it's really about quality over quantity. My daughter, shayna, was only on this planet for 15 years, but I can tell you her life was filled with purpose, with love and with experiences. Shayna lived life full out, and if you've known anybody who's left early almost everybody knows someone like that says that's the way they lived. It's like they were trying to pack everything into a short period of time.

I believe sometimes the people that come here, that live what we consider to be short lives, are actually advanced souls and they come here with a very specific mission. Or they may come here with just a little bit to accomplish, to finish up what they wanted this time around, and maybe it's as people who hang around a long time, maybe it's that we're the slow learners, or maybe we're the ones that need to go through more suffering to purify ourselves, if you want to look at it that way. So we can flip this idea of long lives being for good people and bad lives being for short people or short lives being for bad people. We can almost flip it on our head. So, to conclude, it's not a bad question. It's a very natural question that we ask from a human perspective, the perspective that we are our bodies and that we want to live here as long as humanly possible and, of course, biologically speaking, that's a biological imperative that's built into all of us.

But I want to say there's nothing bad about going home. There's nothing bad about making our transition and there's certainly nothing bad about having a quote unquote short life. Relatively speaking, all human lives are extremely short and compared to the age of the universe, the age of a redwood tree, for example, or the age of our souls. So, when it comes to this, I want to say enjoy your days here, whether they happen to be long or be short. Learn the lessons that we are here to learn, live your life full out and look forward to seeing your loved ones in the blink of an eye. I hope this helps answer the question for you. If you have any questions I can answer, please let me know. I'd be happy to answer them on the next podcast. Thanks for listening and have a wonderful day.