PHILOSOPHY OF NOTHINGNESS

For those of us 'schooled' in philosophy; especially under the tutelage of our very dear "professor's Adeniyi... Dada... Olajide... Ogundare... to mention but a few"__"Reality is infinitesimal."

Naive Realism, for instance, holds that the physical world exist... even if no one perceives it. The crux, therefore, for professor Olajide...is that...."Life doesn't care..."... It is, to him, essentially a body of mass... Far removed from us, our achievements, sorrows...and whatever we think of it."

MEANINGLESSNESS
All men would like to be happy. The problem is that we are not quite sure what happiness is. At times we feel better than at other times. There are times when we feel great.

But, even then we are not quite sure if this is all there is to happiness. It seems to be an elusive dream of total satisfaction, but it often stays just out of reach, leaving us feeling empty and dissatisfied.

We want to find some significant reason to live and it seems to boil down to a few things. We imagine that these things must surely deliver on the promise for happiness, else so many people would not keep on seeking happiness in these things.

To have a dream and then to pursue that dream seems to be the main reason for our existence. The dream is for riches, popularity, or prestige. To have other people acknowledging our importance is what life is all about, because we often have a hard time convincing ourselves that we are as important as we want other people to think.

We want to think that we fit in and are considered meaningful to others. We entertain the thoughts of the ages on how to get people to acknowledge our significant contribution to meaningful existence.

The odd thing about our chosen pursuits is that even in these things there seems to be an underlying futility. The very things we hope to give us meaning and satisfaction bring a crop of problems we had not anticipated or dreamed.

So, the dream of life is always just out of reach. It is like striving after the wind.

It is vexing to the soul.

Right when we think we have captured the things that will give us a sense of total meaning and satisfaction, we are presented with a whole new set of problems that tend to take away at least a little of the total satisfaction. Is this elusive dream for total happiness unreasonable? Why does life seem so futile?

#Justthinking.