It is a human condition that we need a meaning for everything. In fact, we need some sort of tangible word or physical presence in order to define that particular piece of matter. As human beings, we are wonderful at existentialism; more so, wondering what our meaning is on this world. Yet, everything we know and understand that envelops our reality has been constructed from the human’s insatiable need to understand… Or, at least, quantify anything metaphysical.

When we truly think about it, this kingdom we consider the visible is completely overshadowed by a greater realm: what we cannot see. So why worry what our intention is, when nothing else has had a purpose without humans first having deemed it to have a purpose? Humans seem to always require everything in our world to have an inherent purpose tied into it. The human language has become an important tool in understanding what we cannot see. For example, what do we refer to as the omnipresent force that resides within everyone, governs all, and provides a basis for morality and ethical ideals: God. But why G.O.D? As Ludwig Wittgenstein states in his Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, “Introspection can never lead to a definition. It can only lead to a psychological statement about the introspector.” Essentially, what language means, and how it is perceived, conveys itself in a way that stresses the nature of understanding to be only revealed through language; “According to Wittgenstein, ‘theology is grammar’ […] ‘meatphysics is grammar’” (Hartshorne 20). Therefore, without one, we would not have the other. Verbiage is used to limit an abstract concept for that person to have a means of understanding it. Although we have no answers for why God is God, but what can certainly be said is that these ideas limit metaphysical concepts to a more physical state of being; it creates the illusion that there is a divine force that oversees the world and universe, even though we have no physical proof other than the name we’ve given it.

The function of language, which humans have given it, is to help us explain the unexplainable. This is why we have natural aetiological myths in both religion and mythology that help to explain the nature of the world as it is… Such as the parable of Adam and Eve, which refers to “The fall [and how it] can be taken as a powerful symbolic expression of human sinfulness, where sin is understood as self-centeredness and estrangement from God” (Barbour) while also giving an explanation for what sin is, and why humans are fallible in nature.

So, there are these concepts that don’t exist within our world, yet we imagine them to exist. Thus, what we cannot physically grab, we instead veil in this realm we call the invisible. But humans are desperate to know why we are here and if we have a purpose. Yet it’s rather pointless to limit the condition of being human to some cookie-cutter approach, because if we knew why we were here, then what would be the point? Life is about not knowing, and that’s the true beauty of it. We don’t need to go in search for that needle in the haystack, because we are the one’s assuming that there’s a needle to be found in said hay bale.