Frustration Toward Shlomo

        So this week in class, we continued to learn about how Shlomo used different lifestyles to try finding the meaning of life. As the Nehena, he realizes that the memories just fade so therefore it is Hakol Hevel. We then focused on the Amals character, the worker. When Shlomo tried to understand life like him, he could not grasp it.  Shlomo says that no matter what work a man does, when he dies, it is a mystery of what will happen to it. He also continues to expand that nothing we can make will be perfect because we are just people. This bothered me greatly.
        Shlomo, do you not realize that you accomplished so much while you were here? What does it even mean when he says that everything we create is unimportant because we will not have it when we die and we do not know what will happen to it? Okay,we may spend a lot of time focusing on things we create, but that does not mean that our outcome is hakol hevel. Shlomo created the Beit Hamikdash, our holiest building. He also proceeded to make palaces and beautiful buildings. So, if we continued to use his creations after he died why were they worthless? In a way, this just makes Shlomo selfish. Okay Mr. Shlomo, I understand you worked very hard on your creations and you worried about what will happen with them next, but why can't you just be happy that what you built helped the lives of others? Just accept it!