Purpose

If Purpose is what drives us as a person, and we have no purpose, then we are ultimately not going anywhere.

I have often wondered what purpose humanity serves, aside from just existing. Is it a requirement that we serve a purpose? or is it just enough to exist? if you examine that thought process on more of a granular level, then you can theorize that if no one in an entire society served a single purpose, and opted instead for the "simply existing" role, that society would rapidly collapse. I think humans in general need to feel as though they are needed. Like their existence means something. There is a reason they are here. A purpose. Otherwise, a person's life has no meaning, and therefore their actions have no consequences. If a cog in a machine has no purpose, then the absence of said cog would not be missed. It could fall apart, it could blip out of existence, it could just simply rust away over in a dark corner - none of it would matter. So we need to feel needed. Otherwise, ... well I suppose the more driven, more determined members of humanity would be inspired and challenged to push that much harder to find a purpose. But I would be willing to wager half the population, maybe more, would just commit suicide. Especially in modern times, where most of the people alive exist in a "entitled" state of mind where everything should be for their taking, with minimal effort from them. The funny thing is, I am not sure how many people would even understand where I'm coming from by writing this. I think I am biased toward the negative, cynical thought processes of life. But when you see negative examples of things that could have a happy, positive outcome, and it happens over, and over, and OVER again, one begins to wonder what the point in even trying to be positive is. For example - imagine, if you will, a race of aliens. Through a fluke of science, they just flashed in to existence one day. One minute they were not there, and the next they simply were. All of which were asexual - no gender difference, no ability to procreate. What purpose would that race serve? There may very well be one, but in my negative bias, as soon as this race blipped in to being, they began the demise of their lives. They serve no purpose and there is no reason why they shouldn't be dead. Whatever. I'm too tired to give much of a fuck right now.