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What is the meaning of life and what do we do here, why are we here, but most importantly, what are we here for? Suddenly, one day we are born, we grow, and we die, and that's it. And in between, what do we learn? We work, we love, we believe, we cry, we doubt, we make mistakes. But why? For what purpose? In the end, we will all be a memory in someone's mind, a photo, a video, an anecdote.
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Hundreds, thousands, millions of people have been here before, and what for? For the purpose of allowing more people to be here. But for what? With what purpose? Our function is to ensure that someone else remains after we leave. For what? To leave more for others, and those for others, and then others, and so on, until when? We have been doing this for thousands of years, and nothing changes, and we know nothing. We evolve, we improve, or we worsen, depending on how you look at it. We live more years, more comfortably, or quite the opposite.
100 years ago, just 100 years ago, a letter took weeks or even months to arrive from one city to another. Today, in a second, you say hello to someone in Japan. Is that evolving? Bringing us closer, relating to each other? If that's it, why do we destroy ourselves so easily?
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I believe that life has no purpose in itself, because the reason for our being here is accidental, and by definition, something that happens by chance is not premeditated. Therefore, it has no purpose or objective in itself.
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And that's it. Life is that: a combination of circumstances that cannot be foreseen or avoided, without any meaning, without any purpose. I believe that precisely therein lies the key.
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The perpetuation of the species, some say. To fulfill oneself, to transcend beyond deeds, others say. To evolve, to seek wisdom and knowledge, to make a better world, to achieve union with God, to achieve purity of the soul. There are people who argue that the very meaning of life lies in trying to find it, and there are people who say that life has no meaning because the world is a horrible, aggressive, and destructive place. The point is that we all try to call it something.
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I believe that the meaning of life is something that we have invented, because as humans with abstract reasoning, we need to understand, assimilate, and find a meaning or purpose to justify our existence. I call it that, you call it whatever you want, but what will not change is that what truly matters is the path, where we are going.
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Whatever the purpose, the objective of our lives, the meaning of life is that it doesn't matter. The meaning of life is that what matters is to grow, improve, be generous, try to find what we know how to do and exploit it to the fullest, to love, to think, to have fun, to be critical, sincere, coherent, proactive, and always live according to our possibilities and faithful to our judgment. All of that is what my parents have taught me. I believe it is a very good start, and you?
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