Why Are We Here? – Erika Bizzarri Skip to content Erika Bizzarri Menu + × expanded collapsed Home Blog Poems The Watcher Series Lockdown Series Paris Series Books Series My Orvieto Forthcoming: Orvieto As It Was…And Is Orvieto As It Was…And Is: The Grand Tour About Why Are We Here? Posted byErika Bizzarri April 30, 2022 April 30, 2022 Posted inPoems Why are we here? What are we here for? This was the question asked by his grandson of a grandfather who had recently lost his wife of 60 years. How can one answer a question like that? All he could say was that we are here to help one another. Which, on further thought, led him to believe that this was the only answer. And that the question ultimately was “how can we get more people to believe this?” What would you tell your grandchild in answer to that question? One friend thought it both true and beautiful. And wise, and worth remembering and repeating. Yes, another friend responded. “We are here to help one another – that pretty much captures the essence of all true religion and philosophy”. Still another friend quoted the answer of a father to his son, who was lamenting his fate as a tiny speck in the universe. His advice was that he should just try to be the best speck he could possibly be. What would your answer to that question be? Share this: Facebook Print Email Like this: Like Loading... Related Posted byErika Bizzarri April 30, 2022 April 30, 2022 Posted inPoems Post navigation Previous Post Previous post: Thoughts on Translation Next Post Next post: Artichokes Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (Address never made public) Name Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Cancel Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Δ Home Blog My Orvieto About Erika Bizzarri, Blog at WordPress.com. Follow Following Erika Bizzarri Join 106 other followers Sign me up Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now. Erika Bizzarri Customize Follow Following Sign up Log in Copy shortlink Report this content View post in Reader Manage subscriptions Collapse this bar %d bloggers like this: