At first, this idea of not knowing what we are all doing might make things feel absurd and meaningless, and that’s fair. However, the following step is to realize that this permits us to no longer be subservient to some specific grand meaning or template of life, that we don’t have to discover or join in on someone else’s ultimate answer or way of living, nor should we live in hopes of some future ideal or afterlife. Rather, we should attempt to follow our own barometers of meaning and believe in the only thing we have any evidence to believe in at all: ourselves and our relationship with this
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