Why are you here?

Seriously, why are you here?

No, no you dumbfuck, not like that!! I didn’t mean it like “Why are you here on this blog?”, no! Of course we know you are here because you are seeking the ludicrous answers that the universe just can’t give you and you expect me to be a fortune-teller of sorts for you, I get that.

But now, that is not the kind of question I was proposing. What I actually meant was “Why are you here?!” See the diference?

The Dead Living

The mismatch upon the title was intentional, in case you are wondering.

Why? Very wise question, my friend, so glad that you asked.

Ultimately, something has been bothering my lately. And that is the nuisance of the Dead Living in our apartments and commonway houses. “What is it particularly?” - you ask. Well, my dear friend, that is the inherent state within people which they reach once they have contributed enough with society, and are left to rot, ahem, I mean, to be retired.

Feel (un)happy

…it seems that they are always wanting for more from you.

Those people which you relate to, yourself daily, no matter what you give, they always expect you might give a little more. Your work, always expecting you could give in a bit more time. Your boss, always expecting you could show up more often. Your peers, to resolve that other last issue.

Outside of work, your body always expects and contests when you don’t give it the best food available, or the most interesting entertainment. It is always wanting. Us. Them. Everyone. No one in this hecking place ever seems satisfied with what they’ve got.

Wasted Potential

I won’t remember in details what was the TED talk that I watched, but it went something like this:

The presenter was talking about gaming in general and questioned: “What if we used all of these millions of hours that people spend playing video-games into creating something constructive? What could we done? Which breakthroughts would we reach?”

The figures were somewhere along the millions of hours every single year.

Just before you get nagged about it, no, I won’t be bashing gaming or any other entertainment in general, this is not that. But what I am questioning is, maybe, how much potential are we leaving on the table of humanity, by just doing or “stuff”?

Abandonware

Eventually, if you think hard about it, all software will become abandonware. Like all human beings have to die.

I don’t mean that as an insult, just a reality check for all the tech people out there. OK, you might say that Voyager probce code is still running after years of service and deep into interstellar space, but… Once all that code has served its purpose, guess what? It will wander aimlessly over the vast universe forever and freeze to a electronical death of sorts.

How much valuable is a Life?

I know, the wording on the title might be wrong, but that was intentional.

I wanted you to ponder it… Those 2 grand which you earned last week (if you were lucky to earn that much), was that the value of all of the amount of your lifetime during that period? And how could… How could one even value a thing such as a life and its time even more?