For what purpose, please tell me Dear, Have You've placed us on Earth here? We find ourselves alive in a world where, as far as we can recall, we didn’t choose to be and where we must spend a while—a few decades at the very most—and then depart. What, we might wonder, is the ultimate purpose, if any, of this elaborate exercise: of arriving here, spending some time and then departing? The quest to know if this earthly life does indeed have an ultimate purpose becomes even more

Won’t You my curiosity satisfy And say to me the reason why Life on Earth we must undergo, For, this purpose I don’t know.   I wish I knew, I wish You’d tell, In words clear to me You’d spell, Why You’ve made it thus to be, Oh, please explain it all to me!   Some may say this life’s absurd, But I won’t agree till I’ve heard From Your lips this bold claim, Confirming this to be the same.   Till then my hope I won’t let die That there’s a good reason why You make us here a whil