h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Breathe, eat, drink, excrete. These are the four things that a human being needs to do in order to survive. Nothing else is necessary. If anyone ever tells you different, they are either lying or misinformed.
Breathing, eating, drinking and excreting make me happy. In fact, theyre on my daily things to do list. They are very simple activities, most of the time I dont even have to actively think about them in order to do them. This allows me to see friends, fly a plane, bake a cake or paint a wall without my needs getting in the way. What more can you ask for? Well, nothing. Many people would see that as the perfect life: pure freedom. If these were the only four needs built into the human mind, we would be able to live like that.
Alas, the survival of humans as a species adds one more need to the previous four: (drum roll please) mating. This secondary need complicates things.
Firstly, because it is not just a need, it is a want. Without humans wanting to mate, the species would have evaporated in the dawn of creation. Adam and Eve would have just sat around all day, listening to snakes and making idle conversation. Then, suddenly, theyd look up from their annual picnic (or something) and see millions of rabbits (or something) breathing, eating, drinking, excreting and... mating. Sure, theyd have lots of rabbits to eat, but when they grew old and eventually died, there would be no Cain or Abel, only rabbits. So, nature saw it in our interest to make us want to mate.
Secondly, (and this is the sad, sad truth behind all we have accomplished and destroyed as a species) in order to get a mate, you have to impress one. There had to be a catch! There just had to be! It was too perfect; the blue skies, the mountains, the animals; everything! If something sounds too good to be true... What a cruel, cruel seed to sow in a mind. Oh, the pain.
Whats wrong with mating? I hear you ask. I like mating! I hear you bellow. Well, theres nothing wrong with the activity itself, a good thrashing between the sheets never did anyone any harm. Its everything that leads up to it and everything that happens afterwards that creates problems.
So, we (males) beat each other up, build houses, shout really loudly and invent ice cream just to impress a potential mate. Most things spawn from this, and everything spirals out of control as the years pass and the population grows until we have spacecraft, digital watches, devastating wars and so on.
And this brings me (finally) to my point, our jobs. We spend countless hours performing menial tasks for a whole host of futile reasons, i.e. any job related to finance, most office jobs etc. These are all things that we dont necessarily want to do in the first place, and as we already know, we only actually need to breathe, eat, drink, excrete.
So think about why you do what you do. Then jack it in and write a book. Or make a film. Or paint a picture. The list goes on.

Thankyou,
Ryan.

I agree, you are a genius.

I hate my job. It is just pointless misery when you think about it. Why do we do it to ourselves?

hey
this isn't really the place to post things like this, try posting again at <./>Askh2g2</.>, you'll get more of a response there
sorry to hear you don't like your job
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thanks

We do things because it'd be just as dull and pointless doing nothing.

I disagree we do things because we can't function without doing them though I agree when it comes to walking and driving.