9/12/2003
After finishing my latest book, I've decided to venture once again into the vampiric world of Anne Rice. I love reading those books, because I actually get caught up in the lives of the characters very much. Other random news: I just realized about two days ago that if you hold ctrl while pressing backspace, it deletes a whole word. Oooo. I'll be sure to use that now and save all kinds of time. Oh, and I've linked Bryan, too.
There also seems to be a bout of depression going around recently involving an afterlife. It doesn't matter whether there is or there isn't a life after this one. All that should be important is making the most out of life while you have it. Making the most out of life involves doing what you want to do and what makes you happy. You should not do things if you really don't want to do them, because the truth is that we really don't have infinite time in this life (and possibly any other). Doing things that don't make you happy can only lead to thoughts of depression (e.g. "Why am I here doing things that I don't even want to do? There is no point to this crap: I'm getting nothing from this"), and depression, as stupid as this may sound, is not happiness. And, like I said on Nick's site, happiness (in its many ways achieved) is the best feeling a human being can have.
In the long run, yes, nothing has a point. But in the short run (in your life) life's point is the point you give it. Life is not meant to be analyzed to find a major reason for it; life is just a bunch of atoms working in some sort of system to give conciousness and autonomy to a mass of themselves. There is no more point to a human life than there is to the life of a tree or bacterium, but human consciousness allows for thought and emotion. The only reason people can quesiton life's purpose is because they have this possibility of thought. This thought and emotion, however, should be reason enough to live until you someday die and your atoms go to do something else and stop giving you consciousness. While you had this awareness, though, at least you will have been happy doing what makes you happiest.
There also seems to be a bout of depression going around recently involving an afterlife. It doesn't matter whether there is or there isn't a life after this one. All that should be important is making the most out of life while you have it. Making the most out of life involves doing what you want to do and what makes you happy. You should not do things if you really don't want to do them, because the truth is that we really don't have infinite time in this life (and possibly any other). Doing things that don't make you happy can only lead to thoughts of depression (e.g. "Why am I here doing things that I don't even want to do? There is no point to this crap: I'm getting nothing from this"), and depression, as stupid as this may sound, is not happiness. And, like I said on Nick's site, happiness (in its many ways achieved) is the best feeling a human being can have.
In the long run, yes, nothing has a point. But in the short run (in your life) life's point is the point you give it. Life is not meant to be analyzed to find a major reason for it; life is just a bunch of atoms working in some sort of system to give conciousness and autonomy to a mass of themselves. There is no more point to a human life than there is to the life of a tree or bacterium, but human consciousness allows for thought and emotion. The only reason people can quesiton life's purpose is because they have this possibility of thought. This thought and emotion, however, should be reason enough to live until you someday die and your atoms go to do something else and stop giving you consciousness. While you had this awareness, though, at least you will have been happy doing what makes you happiest.
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