Our Existence is Meaningless

You are reading this. Odds are, you are alive, on this planet, in the present. You have journeyed through time and space to be exactly where you are now.

Kudos to you on making it.

You might tell from the title of the blog that this one is not a good read if you want something uplifting. I will present a very cynical perspective of the world here today, which, in the grand scheme of things, I believe is true.

So, here it is:

No matter what we do; no matter how successful we become; it doesn’t matter anyway, in the grand scheme of things.

We love to believe that there is a higher purpose to our existence, and I hate to be the one to break the bubble for you, but the truth is:

WE DON’T MATTER. NOTHING DOES.

This is very cynical, yes, but think of it this way: If you were to be erased from existence, would the world suffer because of it? Probably not. And that goes for everyone in this world.

You can be replaced. Everyone in this world can. You can be the best at what you do, but there will eventually be someone who can do the work better than you.

Now that’s not to say your actions won’t have any repercussions, it just means that whatever you do, no matter how hard you screw up, the world won’t suffer for your mistakes. This is less clear on a smaller scale, but if you take the bigger picture into consideration.

One good thing about this is that you need not sweat the small things. Once you accept the fact that we are pointless, life becomes breezy. You think, “It won’t matter, so I might as well do my best and try everything I want”

To sum things up, our existence does not have a higher purpose or meaning; that all of it could go away in the blink of an eye; that we are insignificant to the existence of this vast cosmos; that it’s all for nothing.

Life always finds a way.

But hey, at least we have memes.

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