It really is. What is the point of anything? For the life of me, I cannot figure it out. I like to be happy, sure, but it is not necessary. I like to meet people. I like ice cream. What is the point of anything in relation to the rest of the world? Is it everything? Is it nothing? I am currently leaning toward nothing. This is not to say, however, that this "nothing" is not important. Happiness is important. Love is important. Everything is important, just completely arbitrarily so. If it matters to you, it matters. There doesn't need to be a reason. I love reasons, but we don't need them to get by. The world still turns even if we don't know why there are 24 hours in a day or why my favorite color is gray. I am very comfortable with the fact that nothing has a real reason. It makes things easier to swallow. Like death. If there is no actual purpose for living, if nothing we do really matters, death is not such a big deal. This is not to say that it is not sad when someone dies, but the world still turns. It is sad--sometimes profoundly so--but it happens to everyone at some point. It is not special. There is no reason why. While life is essentially pointless, it is also beautiful. Experiencing things is something I try not to take for granted. Everyone experiences these arbitrary things, and everyone experiences them differently. People have beautiful, unique, pointless thoughts. That blows my mind. Everything is pointless; everything is beautiful.
How strange it is to be anything at all.
this is so so so beautiful. and it's kind of strange and perfectly relevant that you write this now because i've been over-consumed with "the point" lately. and i needed to read this.
ReplyDeletehow very strange it is to be anything at all
(i'm glad you've discovered the fucking awesomeness of NMH)
this is a very easy answer to the question and one not likely to satisfy you in the long run.
ReplyDeleteif nothing has any importance, then everything must logically have all importance. in the same way, to say all things are pointless or "arbitrary" is equivalent to saying everything that happens is meaningful.
that's exactly what I said...
ReplyDeletealso, whoever the hell you are--and I think I know who you are--despite what you think, you do not know everything. I rarely have problems with people, but pretentious sons of bitches have the special honor of seriously bothering me. it severely pisses me off that you write these pleasant little comments as if you are the authority on whatever the current subject is. you are not. please stop giving me useless, pompous advice believing you are doing me some great service. I have yet to find anything you have said remotely useful or insightful.
ReplyDeleteI do not expect you to take this seriously, but that is exactly the problem with people like you.
even if this only makes you think that I am some small-minded lost soul who is too dense to understand the brilliance of your philosophies, I hope you will nonetheless leave me alone. I would greatly appreciate it.
got emmmmm
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ReplyDeleteis this a different anonymous?
well, you presented your thoughts as a conclusion so i wasnt trying to give you "pompous advice" but only personal reflections on what you had to say. im sorry if that offended you. however, what pretense am i acting under? and what exactly are "people like me" like? i think it should be hard to answer both of those as you have very limited information by which to judge me or my intentions.
ReplyDeletei assumed you wanted people's thoughts considering you put your own up on the internet for everyone to see. if you only want to hear from people you agree with, get a diary.
and yes, that was a different anonymous.
I present my ideas as ideas. you present yours as statements of fact. whether you mean to do it or not, it is obnoxious and makes you come off as pretentious.
ReplyDeleteand you are correct, I do want people's thoughts and input. however, you just happen to present your thoughts and input like a pretentious asshole who believes he "gets it."
there are very few things I am good at, but I am a good judge of character, and going by the way you write these comments, I am fairly certain that we would not get along in "real life." we might at first, but I would soon come to resent you. you say I have very little to base my opinions of you on, but unless you write on here using a different personality than you use for the rest of your life, I have plenty.
i think all youre really trying to do with these posts is to show other people that you do, in fact, "get it."
ReplyDeleteand maybe i do write under a different personality, thats the interesting thing about the internet.
lol philosophy major got pwnd.
ReplyDeleteps: Shannon I love you. the end.
pps: This is Rachel.
ppps: This is incredibly pertinent to my life as of late; reading it has actually helped me grasp and begin to deal with pending loss. t=Thank god we're living together next year or I'd probably stress myself insane.
well, im actually a computer science major, but i dont think thats relevant here.
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