This Life

We sometimes speak of this life.  For example, some assert that this life is all there is.  The ability to thematize and question the whole of life may not prove, but it does suggest, that we are more than beings confined to this life.  Even the average schlep, enmired in the mundane, his fledgling metaphysical organs numbed by the the onslaught of quotidiana, will at some point, when the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" pay him a visit, exclaim, "What the hell is this life all about?"