"When you understand how ephemeral life is, you will try to live each day helping others"
Many live their lives thinking they will be here forever, no matter how rich or wealthy a man is, he won't take them all along to his grave. Man's life is like a sun that rises in the morning and before we know it, it's gone by night. The best way to live life is to live positively and affect others in a positive way. Some are so shallow minded that they oppress everyone around them, they don't know that the table of life turns sometimes and favour the oppressed.
I also learnt in the book that people that people who loves money will not be satisfied with money, they keep striving hard to increase their wealth at the expense of the comfort of others. Who knows if all their wealth will go down with them when they die. This is also vanity upon vanity. Why work all the days of your life and someone foolish will take over who will ruin all the work you have laboured for all your life.
I also discovered a grievous evil, the rich always become richer and oppress the poor, the bad people live longer while the good people are cut off unexpectedly. Is that fair? Karl Max who decides to introduce equality between the society whereby there's no monopoly of economic power in anybody, is that theory still applicable now?
Life is all but a struggle, the little comfort you can derive from this life is the food you eat from your hard labour. We are always happy when we finally work very hard and we are also the ones to enjoy what we have worked hard for. But what does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun. All is vanity upon vanity.
With great observation have I often wondered the vanity of life. A poor person will assume that he can only be happy when he is rich, he thinks wealth guarantees happiness. The greater the money, the bigger the problem. If money guarantee happiness and peace in this life, then all billionaires and millionaires we have will be swimming in the ocean of joy and tranquility. But alas, not all wealthy individuals are happy. The more you struggle in life, the more the troubles. That's why all these Buddhist monks who say they are enlightened professed that you have to stop struggling to gather materiality if you want to be happy. They further said life is full of sufferings amidst other truths.
The preacher also mentioned the importance of time in our lives, he emphasized that there's time for everything in this life. Do what is needed to do at the right time of your life, it's always grievous paying back heavily in your old age the mistakes you committed during your youth days. Sometimes you see aged men and women still working when they suppose to be resting. You then wondered why this is so, some of them used all their youthful days to play, some didn't bother to take care of the children that will later care for them in the future.
The last chapter talks on acknowledging God in all we do, because God will reward everyone according to their works, if you are doing good continue to do so. Make God the Lord over your soul, remember your God while you are still young and agile before you grow old and find no pleasure in life anymore.
There are deep truths in the book if Ecclesiastes, all these are just summary and brief description. Don't take life too serious, dead people will be forgotten by us after a short time they have ceased to live, same will be done to us too after we are long gone.
I enjoin you to study the book and discover for yourself some hardcore truths of life. Thanks
Thoughtful