Someone else brought up the word "purpose" and I will continue on that same thought. Isn't "purpose" just made up by the ego? Even happiness and unhappiness are emotions brough about by your thoughts of a given situation. That is still ego talking. So to reach enlightenment and feel the "being" part of being a human being seems to be the real purpose. To understand life as it would be without an ego. Just a thought (from my ego)