Why Bother? Because there's more...

Why bother? Why even try to live? It's the seminal question that everyone most pose in their lives as they see suffering or are a victim of suffering. It's the kind of question one does not ask lightly in light or darkness. One asks this question when one feels one's life is at an end, or at a point where it cannot get better. My answer to the question is fairly simple at its face, but underneath there's something complex: because there's something more. What do I mean by "because there's something more?" I mean that in the whole of the universe/multiverse is there always more. Not because it's endless, but because we are endless. How can I assume any person that is clearly finite in aptitude, in capacity, and in time is endless? That conclusion is marked by a simple fact that if a person is left alone, they tend toward doing more than what others would expect them to do. In some small measure, the human animal, the rational being, has no end since there is no way to gauge the ultimate state of such a being. Thus, a rational being, a human, is indeed truly endless, not statically so, but dynamically so. That even in the darkest of times, a human can find a way out. A means to success. A means to something more.



Everyday I see people who seemingly give up, and let the forces of nature take them. People that can do more, people with more power than they know. Yet, they have been taught from birth that they're victims of a cosmic joke. Victims to be pitied in their lack of action, not emboldened to action. Taught they are to suffer, not to live. And I find this a contradiction to the very nature of human quality. It is the most vile lie told to everyone, and some how propped up by all as a truth. That humans are suppose to be futile and helpless, and a dead end in nature. I don't accept this lie, and never will, for the facts I've given. There is always more. More hope, more chances, more futures to seek, more fortunes to be made, more stars to be charted, more lands to be discovered, and more experiences for the human animal. Not less. Because there is always something more...

-- Brede