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We are unimportant in the bigger picture. Our struggle might even be pointless and in vain. But I refuse to believe, that it does not matter to anyone. The moment matters to me. It makes me smile, laugh and cry. All may be pointless in the end, but not in the moment. How can it be pointless in the moment, when something, a word, a gesture or a smell can force an emotional reaction?
To find a purpose in a pointless existence, sense in in a senseless world, meaning, when nothing matters, that is the struggle known as ones life. The freedom of choice, when it is not the choice that matters. Freedom of ones mind, ones own thoughts and choices, ones own responsibility for ones actions, a mind unchained. With the gift of thinking comes the desire of knowledge, to question the answers, to expand ones own horizon and in the end to question our existence and the purpose of life itself. Knowledge leads to understanding and compassion follows understanding. Or one could say, with the curse of thinking comes the burden of awareness, the burden of knowledge, the burden of existence and the burden of responsibility.
One could reject this profoundly human struggle and reject life itself. Give in into resignation and resentment. Or one could embrace this struggle as something that defines in it’s core and nature what it means to be human. Something that defines our existence and us fundamentally as humans. Something uniquely human akin or close to a profound universal human truth. Maybe the only truth there is out there.
The question of who we are is not one of status, achievements, wealth, looks or the human species as a whole. On the contrary it is one of our own individual and self found purpose. A purpose arisen from ones own dreams, longings and desires. A primordial flame driving our whole existence unchained from desires that are not our own.
A life is not given to you,
a purpose is not given to you,
it is something you must define for yourself,
something you must find for yourself.
Even if your existence is pointless,
your struggle is not in vain,
your life and purpose has a meaning,
to you and the people who hold you dear.
Existence is a pointless burden,
but with a purpose and compassion,
you can transform existence into life,
and create meaning for yourself.
Life is often painful, it can offer what seems like unbearable hardships, but somehow we keep pushing trough. Something inside us drives us forward or pushes us deep into resignation. One must always keep watch to not get lost in the dark, to give in, to resent and give up. When one is lost in the dark it is only natural that all one can perceive is darkness. Resentment seems like life’s first lesson, the first and best answer to many hardships but in acting so one will miss out of the joy’s of being alive, of experiencing all kinds of emotions and not just the ones perceived as negative. Resentment leads back to existence and existence is a pointless burden.