Epilogue

[im_just_nobody]

Like Plato from "Rebel Without a Cause", the people who do not find their meaning in life see themselves as nothing but tiny, irrelevant specks in the universe. if you really think about it, what is the meaning in life? In the end, what's really going to matter? You stay in school for about 17 years of your life (give or take), and you retain

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[allthingsshiny]

You get married, and have kids. Eventually when your kids start their lives in their 20's, you retire, and you die. That's how the ideal cycle of life goes.

but it really doesn't have to be this way, you know. with the exception of death, these are all choices.

it was just a paper

[im_just_nobody]

i know it's choice. that's why it's ideal. if you think about it...that's what the majority does, because that's what they've been taught to do. you can make a million different choice in life, but you will always die. and then the world goes on....it's all fucking pointless. A friend said that meaning in life is finding something to do with the time you have between birth and death. but why would you do that? it seems like a waste. So you have good times and learning experiences and memories....but for what?

Re: it was just a paper

[allthingsshiny]

well, it is a waste. we all decay into the same organic matter, and a thousand years from now, who will remember us? one in a billion is notable enough to be thought of at all more than a thousand years past death, most of us will be nothing more than a faded photograph in two generations.

so the point is, there is no point, and enjoy it while you've got it, and no one has to do what they're "supposed" to do - we can do whatever we want, because it doesn't matter in the end.

/ramblings

Re: it was just a paper

[im_just_nobody]

exactly. im not depressed or whatever, and im generally optimistic. but i've just been pondering the meaning of life for a while and when the opportunity to write a paper came up i decided to use this as my conclusion. my teacher didn't like it and made me write an alternate ending, and lable this as an epilouge. and maybe if you dont do what you're "supposed" to and do what ever is satisfying to you at that moment than you will be part of the one in a billion who is noted. but even that doesn't matter....actually i dont think i would like being trapped in a text book for generations.

[vtron21]

The answer is 42