Tesserax
January 23rd, 2015, 09:16 AM
I'm not sure if this qualifies for this section, but I couldn't really find anywhere else to put it.
I just cried. For awhile. I felt so sad. Not for myself, not for my friends or family, or anybody I know particularly, but for everybody and everything.
I feel like our world is a terrible place, our lives will only lead to death, and eventually our legacy will end with the world's end. Intergalactic travel though logical honestly has a very small chance of being possible. Assuming we CAN travel at the speed of light, which is unlikely, the nearest STAR is 8 years away, and anything else will be much much further. The world will end one day, and the Human race with it. Everything we have striven for will eventually add up to nothing.
On top of that, our world as it is right now is horrible. Poverty, famine, pestilence, all plague our world. How many stories of people suffering do you see in the news constantly? For example, a child who was orphaned from young, surviving on his own in such poor conditions, but for what reason? To eventually die? A mother at the age of 100 taking care of her 62 year old disabled son, a chinese woman living in poverty, skinny and wrinkled. Not to mention, her son, what's the point of his life? His whole life, he has been able to do nothing, yet for some reason, some primitive will drives us all to live.
But it's not just humans, the animal kingdom is just as bad. The difference is, we have far more intelligence than them, and far more reason to keep going, and to think about the future. But for them, their instinct just tells them to eat, shit, and reproduce. To survive. For no reason, besides the sake of survival. We live meaningless lives, and though I'm not ready to end my own yet, I still feel that I understand the many who have commited suicide, and I feel their pain.
But the reason I cried, was because I tried to understand how all this works. I tried to understand what cruel being put us all here, just to look at us, like specimens in a cage. All we do, all life does on Earth is survive, for no higher purpose. And one day, nothing will matter anymore, and all we did, all that living things did on Earth, will be destroyed, and vanish from memory forever.
I just cried. For awhile. I felt so sad. Not for myself, not for my friends or family, or anybody I know particularly, but for everybody and everything.
I feel like our world is a terrible place, our lives will only lead to death, and eventually our legacy will end with the world's end. Intergalactic travel though logical honestly has a very small chance of being possible. Assuming we CAN travel at the speed of light, which is unlikely, the nearest STAR is 8 years away, and anything else will be much much further. The world will end one day, and the Human race with it. Everything we have striven for will eventually add up to nothing.
On top of that, our world as it is right now is horrible. Poverty, famine, pestilence, all plague our world. How many stories of people suffering do you see in the news constantly? For example, a child who was orphaned from young, surviving on his own in such poor conditions, but for what reason? To eventually die? A mother at the age of 100 taking care of her 62 year old disabled son, a chinese woman living in poverty, skinny and wrinkled. Not to mention, her son, what's the point of his life? His whole life, he has been able to do nothing, yet for some reason, some primitive will drives us all to live.
But it's not just humans, the animal kingdom is just as bad. The difference is, we have far more intelligence than them, and far more reason to keep going, and to think about the future. But for them, their instinct just tells them to eat, shit, and reproduce. To survive. For no reason, besides the sake of survival. We live meaningless lives, and though I'm not ready to end my own yet, I still feel that I understand the many who have commited suicide, and I feel their pain.
But the reason I cried, was because I tried to understand how all this works. I tried to understand what cruel being put us all here, just to look at us, like specimens in a cage. All we do, all life does on Earth is survive, for no higher purpose. And one day, nothing will matter anymore, and all we did, all that living things did on Earth, will be destroyed, and vanish from memory forever.