Is it enough?

I wonder... is it enough to be good?

Being a "good person" is something that is difficult in today's world. It is quite hard to consistently act in a manner which can be construed by the majority of people as "good" (there will always be some people whose personal interests lie opposite the "good" of the majority, so it is truly impossible to please everyone). But, having said this, it is not exceptionally difficult to be a "good person" the majority of the time.

I personally believe that all of us have more goodness than not within us. This may be idealistic, but based on personal experience, I feel that the majority of people want to do what they perceive as being "good" in the majority of cases. The difference lies in where the common good lies, vs. the individual.

So, I do not feel as though being a good person is an incredibly difficult feat, I feel that most of us already do act in a "good" manner in most situations.

So, assuming that my previous, potentially idealistic assumption of human nature is correct...is it enough to be good?

What does it mean to live in our world? I believe that there must be some purpose to our existence here on this Earth... many would say that the purpose is to eventually go to heaven... To those individuals I would ask if it is enough to be good?

Heaven is a conceptual "place" where a soul would travel to if it has lived a "good life"... Is that the only purpose of our existence here on this Earth? To be good people, help others, live fulfilled lives and eventually die and have a part of our essence travel to heaven?

Even if heaven is filled with joys I cannot at this time fathom... it still seems an empty prize for a task that is not exceedingly difficult. Rather, I feel we should strive not to exchange the prison of our souls from the body to a heavenly one... we should each strive for a truth... something deeper that lies beyond.

Why are we here? Is it enough to simply be good? Or is there more to this life?

For some reason, I cannot accept the fact that life could have such a simple goal... that the entire purpose of creation is to live within a subjective framework of "good" and "bad" and through living within this framework to obtain a reward which seems to be quite limited in it's scope.

Why say yes to heaven, when the true goal is a truth that lies beyond it? The truth of why we are truly here.