Keep The Dream Tight

Hitting stumble every few seconds because my eye lids are in a constant battle every night to stand their ground against sleep, with a little help from my restless mind. Anyway, I stumbled across a website entitled ‘Meaninglessness’, and I’m always up for a good read concerning regularly asked questions about life and existence, philosophy, facts and conspiracies.

This piece of writing however, stunned me. I’m at a time in my life where I’m still trying to find myself and what it is I want to/should be doing. I’m not easily influenced by anyone or anything, I tend to do and like what I want without pressure from my peers.

So thankfully this website doesn’t affect my ambition or drive in life, but for a moment it did feel like there was no point even trying to sleep, because there would be no point in waking up because there would be no point in anything that I would do the following day because eventually, in the end, it amounts to nothing. You could achieve so much in your life, awards, trophies, personal goals, work everyday to own a house, have a family, have your heart broken repeatedly and the like, but after it all you just die, as will everyone else.

But obviously I can always see both sides of the argument. You only have this one life and even though it does come to an end, while you are here you should celebrate the time your’e here completely, in everything that you do. But I already live by this principle. I refuse to be a slave to life. You can enjoy life completely with your eyes I have learned. However, this entire idea of meaninglessness could be… stupid and pointless, because an afterlife is an unknown territory to man. Nobody knows what happens, everyone has an idea of what they think will or would like to happen. Some believe in heaven and eternal life in paradise, some believe that they will be rewarded had their life on earth been a sinless and faithful one, others enjoy the idea of reincarnation (which I think is a nice thought) and some believe that we came from dust and so shall we leave in dust (my Dad is a strong believer in this theory). I think I like the idea of some kind of life after death, maybe in a parallel universe, maybe even with a memory of this life… 

My mind sometimes falls into a never ending downward spiral of thoughts that lead to other thoughts that lead to myself being completely and utterly confused! Some people believe they were something else in their ‘past life’. I’ve met some people who speak of ‘another life’ and the term ‘maybe in another lifetime’ is thrown around in situations where people miss out on opportunities with love, careers, events etc. I really started to think about this ‘other life’ scenario. For instants, some people learn so many things in life, perfect certain things to pursue as a career or a hobby, but some people just ‘know’ things naturally without learning it or some people communicate with animals like nobody else can, like it’s a natural built in trait. These interesting things make me think that maybe there is another life, lots of other lives that we’ve lived and are yet to live, and some of us may have a tiny memory of it, while most of us have no recollection at all. We could have been animals, doctors, pilots, maybe even a tree! This concept is, out of all the above babble, the most appealing to me.

The article on how life is meaningless states that only intelligent people can understand that life is meaningless:

“Some individuals - but only a few who possess a certain measure of intelligence - see life in a certain way that it appears meaningless. After all, we live for several years, then die. We work and work, but eventually everything we are working on crumbles to dust. What, then, is the point?”

“The experience of meaninglessness, or seeing life as empty, pointless, absurd, and even stupid, can be approached in at least three broad ways:

1. This view (that “life is meaningless”) is an illusion; life is in truth meaningful, we just for some reason can’t see it.
2. This view is accurate; life is in truth meaningless, and some individuals are merely sensitive and perceptive enough to see it.
3. Life is truthfully “meaningless” in some ways and “meaningful” in other ways, and it depends on the state of a person’s perspective on the matter.”