Everything is pretty okay! 09/06/2009

Bah. Realism. It really sucks the life from me. I guess I should stop reading ironic webcomics about the meaninglessness of life, whose authors are clearly having some sort of existential crisis.

I mean, in general, things are alright!

Sure, there’s a recession, some countries are poor, and shizz like that.

But, you know, you’re also part of a bigger picture, and an amazing coincidence called life! I mean, when you think about it, your living is purely down to chance. If you imagine the size of your family tree in your head, not accounting for siblings or anything, billions upon billions of people are part of it. And if one of them hadn’t been alive, or hadn’t done the deed with some other person, or hadn’t got pregnant, you wouldn’t be alive. It’s mind-boggling.

So, if you think life is kinda pointless, you obviously don’t realise how lucky you are, and you don’t need to worry about whether you will amount to anything, because what you’ve already achieved is phenomenal.

Optimism: it’s better than crack.