What is the point of life? Why do people work so hard in life even though they know that nothing they have done or ever will do will remain with them

Imagine that you have to perform a long distance train journey from Delhi to Mumbai. You have several options to travel.

1: You can travel by Air Conditioned (AC) Tier-I Class where you can sleep comfortably in the night and reach to your destination comfortably reading a few books, surfing the net and listening the music.

2: You can travel by Sleeper compartment, where you can get a berth to sleep but you have to suffer all the noise of the moving train and the hot/cold weather in the night.

3: You can travel by in a ‘unreserved’ general compartment where you may not even get a seat and you have to spend your night standing on foot.

In all the three cases, you start and reach to the same destination exactly at the same time. However, your journey is not the same in all three cases.

Imagine a journey which lasts for 80-100 years.

Given a choice you would like to travel by AC class with all the comfort. However, you have to earn money to buy an AC ticket which would be 5-6 times more than the price of the general class compartment. You have to work hard to earn that money to buy the tickets.

The journey of life is similar to the journey by train.

Everyone is born one day and everyone has to die one day.

What is different is the experience between the life and death.

If your journey is pleasant, life is a joy.

If your journey is unpleasant, life is a torture.

Every person has the right to live his life with joy and avoid torture when he is alive.

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