you meta listen

Why you should do whatever the hell you want to do in life. You have one life, these moments are all you will ever experience, and then, with no warning, they’ll be gone. Gone, with no time to reflect, no chance to change anything, no real proof/sign that you ever even existed. You will be like the trillions of forgotten souls to have walked the earth before you. Their regrets, their mistakes, their shame, their joy, their love, their anger, THEIR LIVES have all been forgotten in the history of time. It was experienced by only them, just as all of your experiences will be experienced by you alone.

Humans are instinctively very stubborn, we know we are going to die but many of us go on living life in a fantasy world of not accepting this. Of having a mentality that after we die we will still be thinking in our graves, even though we know this to not be true. I believe the only way to truly appreciate life is to first fully understand death. This is why, no one who believes in an afterlife can truly appreciate their own lives. Most people have thought about what being dead feels like. It’s easy to throw around the word “nothing”, but that really doesn’t explain or describe the feeling. The only way to describe what it feels like to be dead is with another question. Please pause after you read the question and reflect for a moment or two. What did it feel like before you were born? …NOTHING! Time doesn’t exist, thoughts don’t exist, you are simply nothing. Now that word makes perfect sense, you can picture it, you can imagine it, because after all you’ve felt it. You’ve felt exactly what it will be like when you die. The world will no longer exist, (because you are not around to witness it.)

Now Think of the timeline of the existence of the universe. Imagine this line, imagine it having started at the point of the big bang till this very moment. Attempt to imagine the actual amount of time that has passed, even though it’s so grand that it’s quite unimaginable. And then in this vast time of things being , look at the area that your life gets to actually experience, hardly a speck of it. In this huge line of time we experience a snap shot picture of life, a mere glimpse of existence, an existence that will be unremembered in time just like the life of your great great great grandfather whose name has even been forgotten but one that is miraculous none the less.

Then what is the purpose of life? If we simply die and are forgotten by time, like the millions of grave stones with unknown people/names on them, what’s the purpose of living. The purpose of living is to enjoy it, it’s to pursue happiness till the end. Pursue your happiness, pursue it vigorously. Don’t marry someone you don’t want to marry, don’t go into a profession that you don’t want, don’t do anything you don’t want to do. Fuck pressure! This is your life, you are the only one who will experience it, and you will only experience it once and it will be gone, you will go back into the infinite darkness that is death, and your existence will be no more, forever!

Charles Darwin put it quite eloquently when he said “A man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life” Live your life, and love every moment, because the world around you is so incredibly marvelous and you are so incredibly lucky to be experiencing it.