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I seem to be a bit disconcerted on this lately:
Is life a random and completely chemical notion?
Or, is it the work of something considerable, eloquent and completely veiled to our understanding?
This hasn't ever been something I'd put much thought into. Whether or not there is a force greater
than ourselves has never been a large concern of mine, and it certainly isn't now. No, what I wonder
is whether or not there is any meaning in our lives at all.
We are all so hesitant to die, but why?
Some rest assured that there is an even worthier life in store for them after this one, so why do they
still fear death? Is that fear truly a feeling, or is it just a pattern encoded into their genes? If people are
so certain that they have so much left to accomplish in their lives and so little time to do it, why don't they
start now?
As I've wondered before; if passion is described to be so valuable, then why, in desperate attempts at
survival, will one just abandon passion completely? It's undeniably easy to propose that the average
person will even go as far as abandoning passion for a chance at courtship with a person considered
"beautiful." If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then why do hordes of people insist on worshipping the
appearance of one certain celebrity?
What makes the famous so much more appealing?
People who claim religion spend more time worshipping music and movie stars than their own religious
figures. People who claim to have no religion at all spend more time praying not to die than actually
living their lives at all.
Please, notify me if I am wrong, but does this seem a bit backwards?
The closure of the year has obviously filled my head with countless questions. Now, the last question
circling my mind is whether all of these other questions are even worth wondering about. If life is just a
reaction with no more value than that, what is the point? If life is really worth more than its chemical value,
then why do we still live our lives so selfishly?
It seems to me that we function just as any other animal on this planet does. It is completely unclear to me
what makes us more suitable for dominance than they are. There are so many things in this world that I
cannot even begin to understand.
Vanity is held in such high regard. Standard is set by how appealing a face, body, or set of accessories
looks. Beauty is nothing more than an appearance high in demand. When the demand changes, the face of
beauty changes.
Beautiful now is not beautiful ten years from now.
I am certain that, based things other than appearance, ninety percent of "beautiful" people really are
not beautiful at all. I am also certain that ninety percent of people would not agree with me in the least.
I feel it is safe to say (in many cases) that there isn't anything held as high in regard as appearance is. It will
take that ninety percent of people ten years from now to understand what I am implying. They won't even realize
it until their perception of beauty changes, just as it has been doing for the entire duration of their lives.
The downfall of the human being is that it continuously questions.
Whenever it has questions, it also wants answers.
This simply cannot be argued; we are all guilty of this:
When we want something, we want it now.
Answers, comfort, and everything.