We're on a rock flying through space. In that context, what does contributing even mean?
> We're on a rock flying through space.
I have never understood this phrase as anything more than a platitude to make people feel better. Anyway, don't mind me. It has been raining all week and I think it's affecting my mood.
> I have never understood this phrase as anything more than a platitude to make people feel better.
It's more than a platitude. Check out this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoW8Tf7hTGA
Still, nothing better than a rainy day on earth.
Right. This just happens to coincide with a shift in my life, where all the old contexts from my youth are meaningless, and I need to find new contexts.
So if there is no such thing as contributing, then the contributing you used to do only mattered because of a context you (or I) constructed to find important.
I don't think the right answer is to say, "Nothing is important." I think the right answer is to relentlessly seek for a new context to find important, to give meaning to our own life.