On an evolutionary scale and scheme, an individual life is utterly meaningless – devoid of meaning.
No human – not Einstein nor Mandela – matters or has an impact on an evolutionary scale.
Humans are magnificent animals.
That is all.
To seek meaning and purpose, to seek significance beyond living … these efforts create anguish, frustration, and heartache.
Search your mind, your memories. You know this is true. You are a grain of sand on a planetary beach.
Each should live to be happy, whatever that looks like within the community in which she finds herself. Personal pleasure is the best that we can expect in a life that falls upon evolution’s endless trail.
I do not intend these thoughts in a debauched sexual way.
The implications are clear.
Love and enjoy new people, new things, everyday or at least as often as possible.
This is the absurdist/physicalist way.