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

I look around a busy high street, see all the different people buying all sorts of different things, see the homeless people selling the big issue, see the shopping centre evangelists inviting you to their place for Sunday breakfast and one question rises in my mind...why? Personally, I subscribe to evolution...we were primordial slime, we were monkeys, we are humans...all that our minds are is a byproduct of the stage our bodies have reached. This makes all of our systems of morals, our motivations, all of our thoughts as meaningful as a gust of wind. All we have is what we, as a species, have concocted. One big distraction we use to stop us realising we and the things we imbue with so much importance means nothing. You can either disagree with this, or agree and take one of two paths.

1) Treat this realisation as a crushing weight upon your shoulders.
2) Treat this realisation as liberation, nothing really matters so we are free to explore the reality we inhabit without fear.

This realisation can be a key to happiness, or a precursor to suicide. Still not quite sure what it is to me.

Dan,

I've just realised that you haven't been on this site for a while.

Have you been liberated or have you committed suicide?