You are lost

Note:  This is a continuation of Value, but it started changing direction, so I thought I’d make it separate.

And so what determines if living in such a fashion has any greater value than continuing on an arid existence?  Unlike material goods whose value is based on blood and suffering, the value we assign to life is more incorporeal, and the basis for comparison immeasurable.  A life less ordinary may encounter great things of a spiritual nature that a common life lost to a material existence may never desire to attain, or even recognize to exist.

But cannot a life driven by material things lead to some grand source of inspiration too?  Kingdoms and nations rise out of the aspirations of conquest.

So where does the greater value lie, purpose?  Do we seek enlightenment or material goods to share and improve the circumstances of life for “the greater good” or do week seek to hoard and capitalize on the imbalance created from having what others do not?  But who is to say which is right?

So what do we see as our personal value of time, and what are we willing to trade it for?  If all life is suffering, what is the fruit of our strife?  Do we labor under the illusion that we can ever truly attain something physically tangible when we ourselves are incorporeal beings?