Tim's blog

I want to go to a hypothetical journey with the idea that there is no meaning in life, no god or gods and no nothing which explains why the universe exists and how.
First of all, the name universe reminds me of the word atom. That means unsplittable and was used as a word to describe the real life fact, that for us most of these very little things (atoms) are really not splittable. Nowadays, we don’t split them not because we are not able to split them but because it is very expensive. Besides, we don’t really need to split atoms in our usual lives.
So the word atom is conceptually wrong. Everybody knows it and because of historic reasons we as humans don’t come up with a better name. That is the way we are.
The word universe means, that there is only 1. So this unique one is the one we are in and that is the story.
The word universe is like the word atom. By the time the word was made up, we knew of no better (do we know?).
I admit, I doubt that there is only 1 “universe”. Of course, I don’t know. We don’t know it. We as human beings are with this subject in the full and deep unknown. Sure, we have theories but knowledge is not what we have here.
Going back to the ultimate challenge: the idea of us just existing is because we exist and this is the same with everything else. It just is. We just are. Everything just is existing, this without any further story.
For an average human being this is a kind of hard. Not just hard to accept this (fact?), no, to deal with it.
s a child and youngster we learn day by day many things. The daily life is a great challenge of dealing with new things and to understand the world.
Later on, we have other challenges: finding real friends, a job, a partner, a home and so on and so forth.
We are all busy with our daily lives. We all have challenges we have to deal with every day.
But beside of being busy, there are fears. The fear of getting old, the fear of losing or breaking, the fear of falling into a deep whole and never be able to come out of it again. Fears are dealt with so many in different ways. To keep being busy is a common approach.
Additionally, we all have a kind of need to fill a strange space in ourselves. The space needs to be filled with explanations which are not there (fact?). The big why is there, always. To 99% in the middle of a common human life this subject is in the background. We don’t have much time. Every minutes is filled with meaningful and meaningless things, but filled.
There are places, ideas or concepts to deal with the big why. Religion is a common approach all over the world.

In case there is nothing of a story, there is an interesting logical conclusion: Each of us or we have to come up with on own idea of the meaning of life.
This is the ultimate challenge.
First, a problem, a possible self made up answer is “interrupted” with already given answers. The world is full of life plans. 99% of the existing parents suggest a certain approach to its children. We are social beings. That is normal for this kind of beings. Religion is commonly being passed to the new generation. The same it is with culture. Culture also got a lot of plans for a life.
Then there are moments we doubt everything. We doubt the plans we got told, we doubt the things about the world we got to “know” and told.
(In this moment I am now. Welcome to the club. Anyway.:-)
The thing is, it is a true challenge to think of an own life plan with the idea in the back that there is no story already, no explanation of the overall thing.
How to start? First of all, the existing common concepts are reviewed. Then this does not help and exotic concepts are being reviewed. This also does not help much.
Then the close and far environment is being reviewed. This also does not help.
Then, instead of coming up something realistic of what you want in life, you have many things in your head what you don’t want.
In the end you do the same which everybody else does: doing what was done by the humans before us, regardless to the fact that this way of life is not sustainable.
I dream of becoming a person to face the ultimate challenge. I dream of me being strong enough to do that. I dream of being different enough for it.
I guess I am just a dreamer; probably like the most of us.