Guess what? Life is absurd.
Society, I believe, is layered with systems that determine wealth, beauty, survival, and fear, just to name a few. Human society is actually not that complicated, because each of its beliefs stays constant regardless of time. Each generation merely adds more perspective -- or so they say -- to existing systems, while society is rigged throughout.
It's kind of like the consistency of emotions. For instance, death was considered "sad" in the past, and it is even now. Moreover, the first thing that pops up into our minds when we say paradise is a happy, painless place. But... why? Who on earth created this system of emotions? Who liked emotions to places, people, and ideas?
The world is so polarized; everything has to do with whether you believe in a system or not. Think about it for a moment. Are we actually "free" people entitled to our so-called "opinions," or are our lives being controlled by man-made systems? Is my voice and yours actually being oppressed because we can only state opinions based on those systems?
Well, then life is a system itself. Consider The Matrix. Maybe there is no real "freedom," but it's just an idea -- you know, just a little something that life wants us to believe in. I'm also controlled by these systems, because I can't think of a purely new idea anymore. Neither can any of you. My ideas only sprout from existing systems, because maybe nature is a system too. We don't know what's beyond this system.
Oh, how absurd life is, giving us questions we'll never be able to answer until we die.
Wait, is death another system too?
I'll never know, because life is too absurd to understand!
But this leaves us some questions. If life is absurd, why on earth am I taking time to write this blog post? Why am I still here?
You want to be happy, so you need money, so you have to get a job, so you have to go to school, so you have to get good grades, so you have to pass each class, so you have to pass english class, and to pass english class, you have to write this blog post. And that, my friend is the answer.
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