I've got a question for you all. · 2:36am May 26th, 2018
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Do we all matter? In hundreds of years, will anyone look in books and learn about you? I feel currently like this isn't true. Some day all of us and our loved ones will die. We cannot stop it. We cannot control what gets into history books and can never know if we do become important after our death. Do we matter? We're just one planet out of 10^24 planets. Everything you do in life is meaningless. It won't effect the universe, it won't even affect the solar system. If you make some scientific discovery it won't matter compared to the universe. Do we matter? Our lives are just a blink of an eye compared to the rest of the universe. We will miss so much. Such as colonizing other star systems. We were born too late to explore the earth and born too early to explore the cosmos. So will we forever be stuck on this decaying rock? I hope not, but we probably will be. We'll miss the jaw dropping show of the Milky way and Andromeda galaxy colliding... Which sucks as we know all about what will happen but can never see it. We'll just forever wonder what it will look like till our demise.
So, do we matter?
honestly we don't matter we're just 1 out of billions of people what we do now doesn't matter really maybe thats why i have no motivation to do anything
Well of course when you put it into a scheme that big, no one matters. No one should be focused on the impact they make on the world. I made that crucial mistake a few years ago and it brought me nothing but misery. What you should focus on is making your life meaningful. Focus on yourself. People matter not because they effect the world, but because they effect what's around them. I think what makes a person matter is when they do things that are meaningful to them. It's by doing meaningful things that we improve as people. We are always wanting to be better. Right now there is something every one of us could be realistically better at. We could work a little more, stop eating bad foods or whatever. By making those slow steps upward toward improvement, I think that brings us the greatest meaning.
My apologies if I'm rambling, but that's my two cents. We all matter.
Your questioning the inevitable chill please >.>
4869746
Sorry?
4869624
Eh. It’s not bringing me to misery. Just a question I thought about
4869633
Good point.
4869747
Its ok i question life all the time but it stresses me out to think about it to much
Honestly, I'd ask the question of why impact on a universal scale or even a historical one is somehow superior to personal achievement.