All is vanity

After close thought, engaging and disengaging in all sorts of things the world has to offer, I’ve come to the conclusion That All is empty, futile and short lived.

It doesn’t matter if you’re wise or a fool, ultimately, because everyone ends up dying.

Even a mighty king with as many wives and concubines as he could wish for, with as much wine as he can drink and as much food as he can eat, is ultimately discontented because he sees through everything. All of it is, fundamentally, for nothing. It’s all empty, meaningless. ‘Vanity of vanities.’

Ecclesiastes 1:1-10

1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher,
    vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

3 What does man gain by all the toil
    at which he toils under the sun?

4 A generation goes, and a generation comes,
    but the earth remains forever.

5 The sun rises, and the sun goes down,
    and hastens to the place where it rises.

6 The wind blows to the south
    and goes around to the north;
around and around goes the wind,
    and on its circuits the wind returns.

7 All streams run to the sea,
    but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
    there they flow again.

8 All things are full of weariness;
    a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
    nor the ear filled with hearing.

9 What has been is what will be,
    and what has been done is what will be done,
    and there is nothing new under the sun.

10 Is there a thing of which it is said,
    “See, this is new”?
It has been already
    in the ages before us.

How is your life or lifestyle? What do you live for?