Why Do We Exist? Better Yet, Why Does Anything Exist?

By Dylan Harper

Have you ever thought about the question “why do we exist?”

If you are interested in this question like me, I’d like to share my perspective with you.

Take my perspective for what it is, which is simply the answer I have received on my path. This perspective may be relevant to you, or not, but to me this is how I have made sense of this question in my mind.

Why we exist Why do we exist?

We exist because we have to exist. You exist because you MUST exist and I exist because I MUST exist.

Why MUST we exist? Because everything that ever could exist must exist. That’s why. You are something that could exist. Therefore, you must exist.

Let me explain my logic

Back when I was a small child of about 6 or 7 years old, I remember playing on the playground of my parent’s apartment complex one day in the snow. It was a bright and shiny day, and I was having fun with my friends.

One of the kids came up to me and asked “do you believe in God?”

I’d never really thought about the question before, so I sat there puzzled for a moment. Wanting to give my friend an answer, but not knowing what to say I cocked my head to the side, squinted my eyes up at the sun, looked back at my friend and said “I don’t know.”

I went inside after playing and kept thinking about the question.

“Well, something must have created all of this stuff!” I thought. Then, right behind that thought I wondered “but then who created God? And then what created the thing that created God?”

It was very confusing to try to get to the root of this God question, especially at that age. What came “first?” How does something pop up out of nothing? How does anything become created from nothingness?

The answer to the question was a better question

Fast forward almost 30 years later and I am still pondering the same damn question, as many of us are I think. However, at this point, the universe has delivered to me some insights that have helped me make better sense of this eternal paradox.

See, I used to ask:  “How could ‘God’ (or Spirit, or the Universe, or whatever you like to call it) pop up out of nothing? How could existence be formed from nonexistence?”

At this point, though, I’ve realized there is a better question to ask altogether. The better question is “how could existence NOT exist if there is nonexistence?”

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