Despair!

I am lately completely consumed by the process of trying to understand my own self and the world around me. This has led me to develop a very basic idea. There are in existence two worlds and not one as we speak of. One is the real physical world out there in existence. The other one which is so seemingly real is the one which exists virtually inside our own selves. A world that is full of our views, experiences, prejudices, judgments, emotions, ideologies and what not.This inner world is deeply personal to us which determines our actions and our thought processes. We slowly expand the horizons of this inner world with our everyday lives and slowly keep reshaping and trying to maintain a consonance with the real one. Lets call this inner world "Our World" and the real one "The World".

All along from childhood on we have been introduced to ideas suggesting of our higher existence, about our need to have a meaning to life. All religions and various ideologies also seem bent to this purpose to show man what is expected of him and to guide him towards a life that is supposedly meaningful. Most people live their life in consonance with the ideology they find the most acceptable to try and lead a fulfilling life.

But, aren't all these ideologies and religions things of our creation. These are what exist in "Our World" and not in "The World". Isn't all this an attempt to make the virtual "Our World" seem greater than the real "The World" and to take life away from any kind of truth? Why should life carry any meaning at all? Maybe we are just trying to give meaning to something that inherently has no meaning to itself. A surely despairing thought which maybe is true.