Life is Meaningless

There is no meaning to life. Life is inherently meaningless. Life’s only job is to just be, just exist. As the bridge between the vastness and the nothingness. So that’s one thing you can do and, to an extent, have to do. Just exist, just be. And that actually IS enough.

That is not to say life can’t have meaning or shouldn’t have meaning. Since life has no inherent meaning, each and every one of us has the option to CHOOSE the very meaning of our lives. You can say: “My purpose or my task in life is to do X.” Now, who’s gonna say it isn’t? Who’s gonna argue with that? Who’s gonna judge you? God? The Universe? 

Well, let me tell you. The Universe DOES NOT CARE. It doesn’t give a single flying fuck about you or your ideas as long as you’re doing the one thing you’re supposed to do: exist. It DOES CARE, however, about the task you decide to take upon. The Universe DOES CARE about “the greater good,” as vague of a term as that is, about the well-being of all of its creation. However, to think that the Universe cares about YOU specifically, or that it has some grand plans for you in particular is asinine. Look at reality as it is. There are 8 billion people on the planet and any number of them, at any given time, could take on task X, no matter how specific it is. Especially the thousands of lives brought into this world every day, they all have the potential, and, to be frank, an imperative, to become better and more capable than any of us, ever, past or present, alive or dead. If it is a task worth doing, the Universe will find a way to do it, with or without you. You are not that special. 

Let’s say that I’m right. Let’s say that life is meaningless unless we give it meaning. We all have this ONE LIFE that we know of, right? So assuming I’m correct, wouldn’t the best course of action be to take on the biggest, most grandiose and most important task that you can think of, that would serve to benefit the whole world, as your purpose, task, and meaning in life? I think that would make perfect sense. Also, if the Universe doesn’t care about us individually, but cares about the tasks, then by assigning and dedicating ourselves to one of those tasks gives some sort of an extra layer of meaning to us and our existence in the eyes of the Universe, or God. And maybe then, and only then, can it find ways to support us on our paths. 

Coming back to the question of who’s gonna judge you, or who’s gonna tell you you’re wrong? Well, YOU’RE gonna tell you you’re wrong, and if you don’t listen to yourself, then the Universe will prove you wrong later. It’s like, if you don’t punish yourself for your mistakes, then life will punish you for you, and life will be much more brutal in her choice of punishment. That’s IF the task you choose is not aligned with “the greater good.” Because, as I said, the Universe doesn’t care about you, but it does care about the task. 

Let’s say you’re one of the millions or billions of people on this planet that have not chosen a task for themselves. You decide to choose one. You start weighing the options. If you were to say, for example: “My biggest, greatest, most important task in life is to become rich,” you’ll feel the fallacy and the selfishness of that statement. That’s the God particle within you, telling you that if you choose this task, you will not realize your highest potential, you will not work for the greater good, and you will be miserable and unfulfilled. So YOU’RE THE JUDGE. You say what’s right and what’s wrong. 

Or what if a person has, knowingly or unknowingly, chosen a task that is not aligned with the Universe. He might think it is, but it isn’t. Because the vast, vast majority of us, we like to think we’re good people. Our intentions are good. But sometimes, we fail to align our intentions with our actions, and we fail to recognize this. Or we think that, oh, this one time of doing wrong or being dishonest or whatever is fine. Because, deep down, we’re good people, right?

Well, it’s not fine. See, the Universe doesn’t care, but it does have a way of keeping track of everything. Absolutely everything is accounted for, every physical, mental or spiritual state that exists, anywhere, has its origins, creators, and a timeline of how it all came to be, the way it is, right now. Everything is caused by something and everything can be traced back to the Source. It’s like the Bitcoin blockchain. Everything that ever happened can be traced back to the Genesis block. We’ve all heard of the butterfly effect, yes? Or the domino effect? Everything is connected.

So if you do choose a task that is “wrong,” what you might find is that first you will judge yourself for it. You will be uncertain, it won’t feel right. If you decide to ignore that, then the second thing that might happen is that the Universe will start proving you wrong in external, roundabout ways. Because, simply put, if you do wrong, you will end up in the wrong place. You can’t go wrong and still end up in the right place. Well, you might circle back to the right place. If you’re lucky. Or if you learned anything.

Now, if you choose your task to truly be the biggest, best, most important task that you can think of, it will feel right. It’s that soft, fuzzy feeling. A smile. A hint of excitement. That’s love leading you. That’s, again, the God particle within you, telling you that you are, indeed, correct in pursuing said task. If you let that feeling guide you in everything that you do, you will align that God particle within you to the same particles in others and all around us. And once that alignment is there, you may see that these are not just isolated particles, but it is an actual living entity, distributed between us, inside and outside of us, forever. 

If you choose the highest, best possible task that you can come up with, there are other things you might experience aside from that soft, fuzzy feeling. You will also probably be scared. You will probably have to let go of a lot of things that you thought were essential to your being. You will have to face your demons. There will be people, and circumstances, that make you doubt your decision. People you consider close to you, your ride-or-die’s, may not understand you or your cause at all, and drift away. The task itself may seem quite impossible to tackle, in fact. And to some people, or perhaps even most people, you will probably sound a little bit insane. That’s fine. The task doesn’t necessarily have to be achievable. Remember, the task is bigger than you. But it also shouldn’t be unicorns and fairy tales. It should be deeply rooted in, and related to, the current physical reality. Ambitious, but somewhat grounded. It doesn’t have to be achievable precisely because of what I said before: none of us are special. If I fail at my task, then that’s fine, because if it is a task worth doing, there will be others who will continue my work. Besides, once we fully embrace and embark on a journey of some grand proportions, we will soon find out that there’s not much we can do by ourselves anyway. Any grand task requires enormous amounts of work, dedication, love and care to carry out, and for that, we must find allies, colleagues, partners. Ideally, a tribe.

What’s important is the purity of the task, the love and relentlessness we pursue it with and, of course, the simple fact that we chose to pursue it at all.

I’d like to share a couple of poems I wrote to end this.

4 April 2022:

LIFE

The vastness

And the nothingness

The difference between them

Is the human experience

13 December 2022:

THERE IS ONLY LOVE

There are no coincidences. There are only consequences.

There is no luck. There are only probabilities. 

There is no talent. There is only practice. 

There is no safety. There are only different kinds of risks. 

There is no separation. There is only unity. 

There is no suffering. There is only love.