The Meaning of Life
Thursday, January 26th, 2006What is the point?
In what seems to be a long time now, I have been wondering – what is the meaning?
It’s hard to get up in the morning it’s hard to sleep, there is not much of a point
in doing anything worthwhile in the meantime, because it will all end for you anyway…
These sorts of depressive thoughts have been roaming in my mind for at least a year
now, what to do about it…
I seem to be rather convinced that there must be some sort of meaning to seek out,
so “quitting” is not an option, not at all.
I have never been very religious and I properly think too much to start now anyway,
at least if we talk about the big dogmatic religions.
As I dig deeper into the world of science it seems to be naive to say the least. It’s
disappointing to see that what some take as the right thing is just a childish concoction
in a lone nerds mind, what makes that more right then what you yourself can imagine?
I don’t even want to start out with where the material meanings gets senseless, what
is the point in collection “riches” if you go and die from it anyway? But it brings
me to the next question…
Is collection resources for you next worth living for? It seems like a infinite series
if the only purpose is to accumulate wealth just because the next might want it…
somebody is doomed to stop at some point. Perhaps at the pinnacle of this gathering
somebody can see a bigger picture?…
So one thing is for sure, we must live for ourselves, living for what comes
next is not a good point, that can at best only lead to a mediocre life, hence children
for the sake of procreation is not a solution either, but if you get a kick out of
seeing them walk around and be there own avatars in the world you share with them,
then it’s fine by me.
From the above I will rule out:
Living for the next of kin. that is:
* Saving wealth
* Children
* Gaining knowledge for your next, (do it for yourself!)
* The next life (if it exists you might as well just wait it will come
soon enough)
Then what is worth living for? how about the enjoyment of life? we are created in
a way that make us experience happiness as well as sadness, it might be obvious the
note that one need to exist because of the other, but it feels so much better to be
happy then sad so why not try to stay happy for the most part? (I would agree that
happiness will become dull and trivial if sadness crept out of existence but we should
not let it become the primary part of life)
So to be happy is a nice way of living, but it bites itself in the tail, because what
is happiness to you? (”- dave?..”)
To me happiness is
-
Learning by my own means (I hate “schooling” by all of my heart,
if you are not gifted enough to learn something by yourself then shit! do something
else!) -
Teaching others (by my own principle, even though it’s hard to do
this, I must admit it’s a lot easier to teach people the “normal” way then to expect
them to learn it all by themselves) - Playing
- Making/eating food
- Observing nature
- Exploring the universe (starting with this litte rock called Earth)
-
Creating and designing stuff that others like (or that I at least
like!) - Thinking (goes without saying)
- Music, Films and the likes
-
Being healthy (but it’s not something I take active precautions in
at the moment I’m afraid)
So “To live is to learn” should really be my motto, and
I think I might stick to that from now on!
