What is My Religion?

Life is precious, marvelous,      exotic, wonderful, sad, scary, everything, and without it, nothing is. It is the most important thing in the universe. Nothing exists without life to perceive it. Does a tree make a sound if it falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it? Without the listener, it makes a       vibration; it takes life to turn it into a sound. Sound is a sense of perceiving. Life is there to give the vibration a name and meaning. All life is interconnected, a      web that expands from the smallest one-cell creature to the elephant in the forest, to the unknown in the universe. H2O is the matrix in which life is given birth, in which it struggles and eventually dies. We are mostly water The water that is in you today could have been inside a lion a few years ago or a dinosaur. All the creatures around you have similar DNA Mitochondrial Eve Around 200,000 years ago, a woman lived in Africa in what is modern-day Botswana. She had at least one daughter. And then, at least one granddaughter. In an uninterrupted matrilineal line, all women today, their mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers, are her descendants. Her mitochondrial DNA exists in every single one of the 7.8  Billion people on Earth. Honest scientific research presented the image of the most marginalized figure —a Black African woman — as the mother of humankind All life is transient,      impermanent, temporary. We all die. We all suffer. Life if a series of joys and sorrows. Arriving and departing. We have common well-being and interdependence. We magnify each other's joys and sorrows. If the bacteria in your gut, which outnumber your human cells, are not healthy, you suffer or even die. There is more of what you call "other" inside of you than what you call yourself. So why is your goal not to provide a good home for the bacteria inside of you? Outside of yourself, the tree provides you with the oxygen you breathe in your common home. If you or your neighbor kills the trees, you both suffer. My well-being depends on the well-being of all life on this planet and your well-being. We either learn to cooperate with the other 7 billion people and trillions of creatures on the planet are we all suffer more or even die. What is our purpose? Look at a hammer, observe it drive a nail into a board. The purpose of the hammer can be inferred from its function. How do humans function, how does life function? Life evolves,  self-perpetuates, and evolves to keep life going. What is my religion? My religion is to nurture my wonderment, my joy in the life that surrounds me. My religion is to hold your hand and travel with you on this marvelous one-time journey called life.  My religion is to love life.