What if?

I started pondering meaning of life questions last week.  I don't know why.  They just started pouring out for some reason.  One of the things I guess I have been trying to figure out is: what is the soul, really?

I've read in many books and heard different people say that the soul is wanting to evolve and that's why we're in this crazy experience called Life.  But that got me thinking - why does it want to evolve?  Does it get something when it's done evolving?  Which then I think those questions are very goal oriented which in turn is a human trait.

So what if the soul doesn't need to evolve because if it is part of everything that is (Universe, Consciousness, Source, God, etc) why would it need... improving?  It just is.  What if it's just pure potential?  What if it amplifies all that's contained within the whole bodymind?  If it is purely consciousness or information what does it need more of?  Or what does it need to do?  Nothing, I don't think.  Why would it need to 'do' anything?  For itself anyway.

So what is its role in the whole grand scheme of things?  Is it there to help the human consciousness, awareness and/or evolution?  To help us see everything as connected and not separate at all?  So then we're more at ease and able to be in the flow more?  To know bliss?  And to know it for longer than a single moment?

A lot more questions than answers and frankly I don't think we'll ever hit the nail on the head.  Merely get close to what it really is about.