| No, Pam, it doesn't. As far as we can support with scientific evidence, there's no reason for anything. Life is a fluke, the odds against it are high. Our awareness of any other type of life nonexistent. Our lifetimes, on a geologic scale, are but a second. On a universal scale, we just barely exist. Nothing we do will ever matter to anything beyond our planet. Earth is the only stage any of us alive today will ever act out our lives on. Earth, on the outer edge of a backwater galaxy. Humans are totally unimportant to the galaxies.
Now, if you enjoy bathing in the awareness that nothing ever truly matters at all, you are most likely depressed, manic, mystical or nihilistic. In my case, I balance that awareness with the knowledge that on my time scale, there are plenty of reasons to laugh, have fun, make friends and make love. I don't care that none of it matters to the universe. It matters to me. |