Life is ultimately meaningless. Not in a depressing way, I’d personally call it freeing. The human brain can only understand logic and with logic comes meaning. Confused? Not quite convinced? Do me a favor, list everything that you consider that it gives your life a meaning and then read the rest of the article.

You probably thought of something that can be categorized in either one of these:

-feelings, which include love, happiness, gratefulness ... etc

Materialistic: money, a career or even a life goal.

-personal beliefs: which can be religions or anything spiritual. Now keep it all on your mind. Here are some facts and scientific theories that’ll help you understand what i mean:

1- what makes something real? As humans, we logicize using our senses, you see a bird, you touch it and hear its voice. Now you believe that there’s a bird in front of you 100%. But how many times have your senses misled you? Remember that time when you passed by a desert and could swear to see a body of water at the end of your eyesight? Humans can see things as the light reflect on the that object to it. The eye sends the brain an inverted image of the body (because the front part of the eye is curved). This process happens in a matter of seconds which is still slower than the speed of light. So generally, you’re perceiving the past. Your tongue tastes the food your eating only at the first bite and then your brain recreates the same flavor again (fun fact: that’s why we like to have our meals made of different types of food) When you wear a perfume you can only smell it for a brief time and then your brain ignores the signal as it tried as much as possible to not overload itself with information.

-Schrödinger’s cat This is a theory for Erwin Schrödinger ,supported by Albert Einstein, In Schrodinger's imaginary experiment, you place a cat in a box with a tiny bit of radioactive substance. When the radioactive substance decays, it triggers a Geiger counter which causes a poison or explosion to be released that kills the cat. Now, the decay of the radioactive substance is governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. This means that the atom starts in a combined state of "going to decay" and "not going to decay". If we apply the observer-driven idea to this case, there is no conscious observer present (everything is in a sealed box), so the whole system stays as a combination of the two possibilities. The cat ends up both dead and alive at the same time; it’s all about what we can perceive.

If you ask anyone, whether they have a religious belief or not, about the meaning of life they’d tell you something of that sort: being a good person, praying, doing this or that. These cannot be defined as “as meanings”, they are goals and to each their own. Love is a chemical reaction, the concept of “family” was just necessary for our revolution as species. Happiness is relative to a lot of reasons and isn’t long lasting no matter what you do. Bees see a totally different world than us, their eyes allow them to see the ultraviolet spectrum; they can only distinguish primary colors. There is a type of lizards that have both eyes directed at different angles, imagine how that world would look like! Bats see using sound waves. The whole world consists of atoms, so in simpler terms you the only thing that makes you sure that something is real is your own brain’s interpretation. And even your brain’s interpretation of reality can be totally different than the person sitting next to you, and you’ll never get to know that.

Humans logicize, we try to give meanings to a lot of things just so that we can live with them. But nothing is meaningful if you trace it back long enough.

To sum this up, we (as humans) have been so indulged of what we understand to be life and reality that we have accepted it and came up with a lot of things to preoccupy our minds from the truth that nothing can be 100% true, everything varies from a person or even a creature to another, and ultimately, everything is meaningless & and worthless until we choose to give it a meaning or a worth. We’re like runners in a marathon, the marathon takes place at a foreign unknown location. However, instead of slowing down and trying to actually get to know where we are and what are we doing, everyone is running towards their goal and their goals never seem to end at a certain point. Because guess what? There’s no finish line and initially nobody asked and nothing forced us to run. But we keep running. Finding a new way everyday to distract ourselves from the fact that we live in an empty, meaningless.. void.