What is the point?
So today i was thinking, as you do. The things we do in life, the routine, the constant moving from one place to another, from one thing to another, from one person to another?
What is the point?
I am currently in the process of exams, and i still have three to go. I do know that these will be hard and i probably should have studied for them way more than i have done, and yet i still can't think why i wanted to do them in the first place?
I mean, all things considered, and this thought is not meant to be depressing, but why exactly do humans do the things we do? Essentially from the moment we are born, we are dying. Every minute that passes, we are getting closer. We may die young, we may die old, when it will happen, we will never know.
So my point is why exactly do we do the things we do? Why do we save money for instance? I mean sure we can save for short term goals, like going on a holiday, a car, an electronic appliance. But why would one save money for the future? In this day and age, by the time we earn enough money to buy a house we would be in our 40s, if we saved from the day we started to earn money. And what 14 year old kid wants to that? If we got a loan for a house by the time we were married, lets say at the age of 25; it would be another 20 to 35 years before the loan on a house was paid off, making you around the 60 mark when you are finally done. With only about 20 to 30 more years left in your life expectancy, your home free. Aren't you?
Why exactly do we bother to do exams, get degrees, get jobs, have careers. The majority of the population works 5 days a week, and for what? To pay the bills, for the house we live in, the car we drive, the kids we raise. But all of this work, is to pay for the enjoyment we have on our two weekend days off. Why do we live in a world, where it costs that much to live that we need to work 75% of the time in order to survive?
Why is it that we form emotional attachments to people, objects or places? All that they are is a form of energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed in form. Hence we will only have that thing for a short time anyways. We will also only be for a short time too, for we too are a form of energy, waiting to change into our next form.
Why do we wonder about these things and why can't we find explanations?
I guess we will never know?
Something to think about.
Shan. :)
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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2 comments:
Good questions, here's another question: What if we didn't...?
By that i mean no work, no buying houses, so no houses etc etc...?
Personally i reckon if no-one had any material wealth then i could absolutely live without it, but i would neeeeeeed human connection, everyone needs connection. Our world is way to material and we've become robots to a materialistic machine of modernity, but we still need each other.
As far as the point you make that from the moment we're born we're dying, their's a flip side... Until the moment we die, we are living!
Lol sorry in a glass-half-full kinda mood atm.
yep i totally getcha, it wasn't really a glass half empty moment, more of a what the frig is the point of it moment?
I had like an evolution of thoughts, not quite epiphany worthy, but nearly there. This was kinda like why the heck do we do things.
I totally see ur point tho, but materialism sucks, i wish it wasnt that way.
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