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Tackling Absurdism

You are a complex and nuanced individual. You have layers to your personality. You meet multiple people daily, you have so many experiences. You have a story to tell, your interests, aspirations, hopes and dreams.  You may sometimes feel like you're the most complicated being on earth. After all, you have so much going on, don't you? But so does everyone else. Everybody else has their own stories, problems, dreams. Everyone else thinks they're a complex person. And that's because they are. We live in a complex world, after all. All this, for what? What even are we, a swarming bunch of self-righteous, self-absorbed microbes on a rock in the middle of nowhere? What is the meaning of life? What's the point anyway? Every single action that happened since the beginning of the universe, right from the big bang, every slightest choice has led up to this - upto your reading this blogpost. The smallest difference would have changed this outcome vastly. Our present is a mosai...