Are you ready to accept the world for the way it is? Are you ready to realize the ultimate truth? Can you deal with the bleakness of existence? Can you deal with the fact that you will die, that what you have done will not matter? Can you deal with the fact that our existence is part of something bigger? That you are no larger than an atom in a cup of water? Because that was what I was thinking about. And I wish I could find more people who think the way that I do. Because it would mean something to me if I could spend what little time I have on this earth, this state of existence, electricity running through the neurons on my brain, powered by the food we consume…

Who are we?

Everyone is this. Forget about your ego, your sense of self. This is what we are. Your name, your job, your title, your salary, your house, your car, your interests, your hobbies, your friends, your family. They are just a construct. They are just what you chose to define you. Hey. I think I’m using the word “you” too much. I think the word “you” implies an actual “you” that is identifiable. Because we aren’t.

Everything about us is to protect this. This is the central nervous system. All your memories, feelings, thoughts. They are just this. There is no god. There is no faith, there is no good or bad. There’s just this. And what is this exactly? The result of a million years of evolution, a goddamn miracle that this exists. Dawkins talks about the ourselves as simply “survival machines”. And I agree with him.

Yeah. It sucks. We aren’t going to be immortal. Even immortality only exists in the minds of humans. In the end there is just this. You. Reading this. Absorbing my words. The great thing about this is, it frees us. It frees us from the debilitating burden of making our lives “mean” something, as if that was the be-all and end all of all life. Your life means nothing. But that’s okay. Our friends, our family, the people we love. The books you read, the films you watch. They were all created by people who wanted to share their knowledge, pass on what they know, knew and will know onto you. Our knowledge is a collection of thoughts and memories that have somehow transcended the short lives of the people who thought of them. There are immortal thoughts. Thoughts that are good enough to survive death, war, famine, cancer, what have you. And we need these thoughts.

We don’t need thoughts that will die. We need thoughts that will add to our collective consciousness. We need people to think these thoughts. Don’t get caught up in small thoughts. Think big. And you will be immortal as long as the human race survives.