Science class impacted my day quite a bit today. We were talking about the flow of energy and how energy is passed from consumer to consumer, organism to organism. With each transferral of energy, a bit of that energy is lost as heat energy and is unusable for organisms to do work: but that's natural and normal. It's called the Second Law of Thermodynamics. As this heat energy is released, the order of the universe is reducing and the world is slowly moving towards chaos and entropy. Literally. Complete disorder. Just because of energy loss.
This kind of blew my mind. I had this huge connection to the whole world. Everything is SO interwoven and connected, and life is such a huge whole of which we are such a small part. But if we are so insignificant, why should we care? Why do we do what we do every day? What's the point, if we'll all eventually succumb to the disorder of the universe? Most likely, no one will be there to remember us, or anything that we did. It is quite possible that everything that happened on this Earth will vanish into oblivion. No one will ever know, care, or even wonder what could have happened. What we perceive as so much is in reality so little.
That, of course, brings up the questions, "Why do people live if (chances are) nothing we do will change anything in the grand scheme of things?" and "What is the point of human existence?"
I'll leave on that note. Just mull over it. Gaah. Still blowing my mind.
-Cora
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