Why Are We here?

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I recently borrowed this question in my wondering.
I liked the wording and thought I'd post it here for your consideration;


If there's only One Life and we're all part of it, why we are having this experience as individuals who have to deal with the ups and downs of daily life? If Nature is all present, all powerful, and all knowing, why does it take the form of stock brokers and dentists, or homeless people and homemakers, each of whom represents only part of the great picture of life? To put it bluntly, why are we here?

[watershield]

I cheat. When I ask a question, I usually have an answer but like the debate.
I offer this for your consideration;

If you have ever watched Startrek, Deep Space nine, you will be familiar with the Founders. A race of beings that exist primarily in a non corporeal state, merged together in a vast sea of "being". One shared mind.
From time to time, an individual may separate from the whole to accomplish a specific task. That individual is, while separate, still part of the whole, an expression of the whole.

In some respects thats how I see this existence.
The Cosmic Energy flows in all things and this existence is an expression of the energy.

Consider, if the founder always remained merged, they would always have a common emotion, knowledge, dream... every thing would be "consistent".
There could be no creativity, no originality, hence no growth.
The fundamental instinct of all things is to evolve. I conceive that the energy is a living evolving entity.
In order to create original thought, our existence is an expression of that instinct.
Each of us has a potential to experience a vast and varied set of circumstance, all for the purpose of returning to the source with additional "data" to promote that evolution.