different philosophies

I believe that there is no right answer to whether we live in a meaningful world because everyone has his or her own ideas on what living a meaningful life looks like. There are also some who believe that their lives are not meaningful and see no real point in life and then there are others who think everything is meaningful and wonderful. These are the two extremes and I feel like on most days of our lives we are a mixture of both, we do not lean to much on one side but instead are somewhere in the middle. I think our answers come from our experiences, if we go through something bad or sad in our lives we might result to having the opinion that life is not meaningful and then we can go through something that makes us happy or changes our life in a good significant way and we think, yea my live is meaningful.

“Everything is the same, even if it’s different” (Bernard and the blanket). I believe that this is true. I feel like there is more to our lives then how we are living them and we are not really seeing the big picture. Though often times I can see where people will be like, we’re not connected, nothing matters. Just like in Banach’s lecture where he says that we can only feel our own pain and no one else’s, we cannot really connect with anyone. Looking at the guy sitting across from you on the subway there is no clear picture that says we are the same, even if we are different. Nothing bounds them together then perhaps that they are both living. But I want to believe that everything is the same, and everything matters. It paints a much more beautiful picture of the world. I can see how we are the same and connected. One action I take will undoubtedly affect someone else and vise versa. Nothing we do in life only affects us. This is the beginning to thinking with a view on life that is meaningful.

“Once you realize the universe sucks, you got nothing left to lose” (Tommy). I also agree with this statement. If you convince your self that nothing matters and there’s no point to anything then why do anything? Or you can do anything because of the fact that it is unimportant. I think Tommy had fallen to the end of his journey and just stopped caring and figured that since so many bad things kept happening one after the other, there was not much point to anything, I can say truthfully there have been moments where I feel like I’ve been pushed down too much and do not see the point of getting back up anymore. But then something happens in which someone extends their hand and helps me back up. I feel like for Tommy that was Dawn when he meets her in the burning house.

Thus there is no one real truth to it. There will be a forever “overlapping, Fractured philosophies” of life and whether it’s meaningful or not. People just need to figure out their own truths and perhaps like Albert needs to experience both extremes first before figuring out where he stands in life.