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I'm not sure if this answers your question, but this is how I view life:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBpaUICxEhk
When you dance, there is no end goal, and there is no logical reason for doing it either.
You dance for the sole purpose of dancing.
And the same happens with life.
The only purpose of life is living.
It's to experience this rare gift that has been given to us.
This doesn't mean living hedonistically "for the present moment". I find that the constant pursuit of challenge and difficulty is bringing meaning into my life.
We live in a very strange world, whose complexity is orders of magnitude greater than what our primitive minds can comprehend.
The phenomenon of biological life - and existence itself, for that matter - is fundamentally absurd. It has no reason or apparent purpose for existing, and yet, fortunately, it does exist.
I would stop looking for an answer because the answer does not exist.
We're here for a brief amount of time, so don't take things too seriously.
The light will soon go out forever, at which point, there will be only two questions left:
So let's try to be kind to one another and work as hard as we can.
While we still can.
When you dance, there is no end goal, and there is no logical reason for doing it either.
You dance for the sole purpose of dancing.
And the same happens with life.
The only purpose of life is living.
It's to experience this rare gift that has been given to us.
This doesn't mean living hedonistically "for the present moment". I find that the constant pursuit of challenge and difficulty is bringing meaning into my life.
We live in a very strange world, whose complexity is orders of magnitude greater than what our primitive minds can comprehend.
The phenomenon of biological life - and existence itself, for that matter - is fundamentally absurd. It has no reason or apparent purpose for existing, and yet, fortunately, it does exist.
I would stop looking for an answer because the answer does not exist.
We're here for a brief amount of time, so don't take things too seriously.
The light will soon go out forever, at which point, there will be only two questions left:
- How beautifully did we live our lives?
- How much good have we done for the world?
So let's try to be kind to one another and work as hard as we can.
While we still can.