It feels like my life has been put on an endless repeat for the past 12 years.
Our concept of a successful human life, one that offers a good, well-payed, steady job, is so queer. You're born. You go to school. Your life becomes defined by test after test after test for 12 years or more. You enter the workforce. It gets exciting for a bit. Then your life becomes defined by deadline after deadline after deadline, meeting after meeting after meeting, project after project after project, until you die or actually retire. And well that's about it.
Which kind of makes you question the entire point of evolution and survival of the fittest and adaptation and life on earth. Okay, great. So my ancestors managed to move from single-celled organism to prehistoric fish to reptile-like-creature to small mammal to ape to me. But what then? What's the point? Because it feels like I'm stuck in a ceaseless cycle that is just going to cycle down from one generation to the next, entire the end of humankind (yay) or till the earth finally dies.
Some people think humans are the superior species and a class above the rest of the animals because we have emotions (which is the lamest reason ever) and we're intelligent.
Honestly, though, it feels like so much of a curse to be
blessed with this supposed intelligence, because in the end I'm probably just going to think myself to death or keep asking questions that will never be answered, let alone understand the reasons behind the legislations and actions and behaviours of my fellow intelligent brethren.
Maybe the rest of the animals are the intelligent ones after all, for staying
unintelligent, for not thinking too much, for holding on to that capability of living in the moment.