What is Life?

Life is existence. No more. No less.

Humans like to believe there is a purpose...a meaning to life. There isn't. All things--not just living beings both flora and fauna--Begin, Exist, then Stop Existing. This includes all inanimate objects as well...from the largest most powerful things such as galaxies and stars to the smallest most insignificant things such as a grain of sand or an ant.

It doesn't matter what you do while you exist. You, me, everyone we know, everything we see...we'll all be gone sooner or later and existence continues. It's neither good nor bad. It just is.

Whether or not you believe in a supreme being, a creator, it doesn't matter. What any one person or an entire species does is of no consequence to Existence. What we do affects only us and all the living things around us. Once we're gone, something else will replace us. It's neither good nor bad. It just is.

What we do today only affects our comfort and how long our existence as a species will be. Nothing we do can affect our inevitable non-existence. ALL things end. No matter how special we've convinced ourselves we are, we aren't special.

Life/Existence is extremely violent. As a species, humans apparently revere violence although we claim otherwise. We find reasons to have wars as nations, as individuals, as groups. Our heroes are those who kill the most people in war. On every level of existence, we as individuals seem to be constantly trying to prove we are better than the next person or other species sharing our planet.

What we say and what we do are so contradictory. We love violent sports. We encourage competition to find out who is better, stronger, smarter. Our entertainment is increasingly more violent. Most people aren't happy unless they can convince themselves that they're better in some way than everyone else they know.

Our race plans for and anticipates war. We've convinced ourselves that wars are necessary for us to survive. We take pride in decimating each other in war. We, throughout our entire history, have only made very minimal efforts in settling our differences with each other using intelligence rather than brawn. We don't like it when other people don't think as we do or don't look like us. We're all the same but we've convinced ourselves that our appearance and where we're born is what makes us better or more superior.

If all humans were deaf, dumb, and blind, we'd still find reasons to believe and prove to ourselves that we're better in some way than the person next to us. It's our nature. Everyone wants to believe he/she is special and better in some way than the person next to us. As a species, we have convinced ourselves that we're superior to all other life on our planet.

In our quest for comfort and entertainment and superiority, we are shortening our time in existence. How? We are destroying everything we need to survive as a species. We are destroying the environment we need in order to survive. The world will go on after us but it will need to heal itself after we're gone. We're creating a world we won't be able to live in. We'll blame each other for it.

Life has no purpose. It is merely existence. If we learn to care for our planet and all life on it, maybe we can extend our existence. But in the end, we will stop existing and the universe will feel no loss. Other life will exist and die. Worlds will exist and die. Galaxies will exist and die. But the universe will go on until one day, it too will cease to exist.

If humans disappear tomorrow, no one and no thing will feel its loss. Our present existence will be of no consequence to any future life. They will live out their own existence until they too one day cease to exist only to be replaced themselves.

To everyone who believes that our children are our future, what are you personally doing to ensure they DO have a future? I mean, other than saving to send them to college. What would be the point of that if the world they inherit is barely livable? What kind of future world are we creating today? Personally, I see an overly crowded world full of people who eat synthetic food, where there is no wildlife and no beautiful wilderness areas, where we may need to live in cities encapsulated in bubble domes in order to breathe. A world where humans will be 100% dependent on technology in order to survive. A world where privacy and solitude will be non-existent due to the explosive growth of our population.

Check out the world population clock to see how quickly our population is expanding. Our sheer numbers will overwhelm other lifeforms on our tiny planet. Humans are voracious in every way. No matter how much we consume, it's never enough. We always want more...of Everything. The only thing we severely lack is: Common Sense and the Desire to Use It.