A Thousand Ways Not to Waste Your Life

So, you feel alienated.   You feel alone.   No one understands you.   Everyone is judging you.   You never feel like you are living up to your potential.   You wonder if there's any point at all to what we do.

Well, I've been wondering the same thing.   I've spent every day for years just sitting in my house, and just feeling the pointlessness of it all.   There are some days when I wonder if it's even worth getting out of bed in the morning.

Today I came to a realization.   After months just contemplating life, the universe, and everything, I finally decided something.   There might not be any point.   We might be wasting our time, worthless cogs in some cosmic poker game that only ends by being thrown head first out of the casino.   Nothing we ever do might matter in the long run.

That doesn't mean we give up, or surrender to our fears, our doubts and our uncertainties.   Great people throughout history have had their fears, and their doubts, but did they give up?   No.   As Thomas Edison said, he didn't fail.   He just found a thousand ways not to make a light bulb.   From his discovery came another, and another, gradually making the world a better place.   Great things don't come from inaction, from sitting on our asses and waiting for the world to crush us down.   Great things come from getting up, from bandaging our wounds, from forging on and never, ever tell ourselves we aren't worth it.