Osomatic

I don’t want to get too metaphysical, but I have experienced and continue to experience ego death, by which I mean: There is no me outside of me. There is nothing of me that will continue when I am dead. The “soul” is only the name we give to those chemical compounds that give us the ability to think, and shape the world.

If it sounds nihilistic, it is not. Our lives are a nearly incomprehensibly unlikely gift, one we should not waste. We should never deny the ability to continue thinking to another human being. Indeed, we should not only do our best to increase our own ability to think, but do our best to add to other human beings’ ability to think. As far as we know thus far, we are the only creatures in the cosmoverse with the ability to actually at least try to figure out about the cosmoverse. Even the stupidest human is, by definition, smarter than a dead rock.

Let go of your ego, realize that you, as you, will only exist for as long as you have to live. And then take up that amazing bounty and think, think, think, and create things that make the world better for your fellow few thinkers.