The one where I hang my hat

Here is the longing to "go", whatever that means to the one who yearns.  Pepper just wants to go outside.  I just want to go home, though men like me really have no home beyond the proverbial hat rack.  The life each person lives reflects his philosophy.  My life, like yours, grew from an understanding of the nature of the world, the nature of life, and what I perceive to be my place in it. 

The animal Man seems torn between what He came from and what He will become, and this struggle plays itself out in each human being on every day as we make our life choices.   I don't believe Man has a "destiny" that is prescribed by a god or even by Nature itself.  To think that Man as He is now is the epitome of life's evolution is too arrogant for even me to believe.  Life on Earth should continue for many millions of years more, and what is to come we will never know.  Life arising out of inanimate matter may or may not be common in the universe, but we do know it can happen, because here we are.  Life is, therefore, a naturally occurring event in this universe that is tied inexorably to the fabric of the universe. 

Life, all life, everywhere, arises from the matter of the universe, which means that all life is one life no matter where it appears or in what form.  I cannot make the separation between my life and your life, because you and I are the same life.  That doesn't mean I can make no distinctions between the many examples of life around me, but it does lay on me a weighty responsibility to be fully aware that all life is part of me just as much as I am part of it.  That responsibility is to see the consequences of my actions on others, to discern the greater good, to acknowledge in my actions that 'self' is not a real concept despite the convenience of the terminology.