Everything that is here will one day be erased.
Every famous name you know won’t matter, even Albert Einstein. Everything here is bound to die. That leads to a word I was obsessed with for about two years: entropy.
Entropy (n)- gradual decline into disorder
So what does it all mean then? Life is pointless, right? Nothing matters? If we can’t do anything to last, then what can matter?
You matter. You, your friends, your enemies, everyone you love and hate. I think the point of life is living, to be happy and to make others happy.
My own meaning to life is happiness.
I was a really smart kid. I would sit in the shower and sob because I thought too hard into the meaning of the universe and how it was all a void that would never matter, even if I did go to heaven. I was so terrified of slipping into the void, of nothing to matter. What was the point? I wasn’t happy. Why was I here?
But when I started living, I realized it. We shouldn’t build anything to last; we shouldn’t try to. The point to life is personal happiness.
Going to work doesn’t matter. Being productive to society doesn’t matter. Society won’t be here soon enough. We’re all just ants in the bigger scheme, even George Washington.
So stop following the colony. Have the ants ever considered wandering off, going to faraway lands? Why build this mound your entire life on the outskirts of Paris? Go see the Eiffel Tower!
Power doesn’t matter. Money doesn’t matter. Not to me, at least. Getting a stable career doesn’t really matter to me. The truth is that I know that I will be fine. I will be happy even if I am living on the side of the road.
It really doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. Be yourself. Blow all of your money, be crazy. People will point and laugh. Get bad grades if the subject doesn’t interest you. People will call you an idiot. You will know that they are only cogs in the machine.
And I realize that I’ve been touching on the same subject in the last few of my blogs, but I wrote three in a row. This is something I’m passionate about.
So don’t wait to live. The time is now. It doesn’t matter what age you are now. Go crazy.