Huckabees Blog Post Assignment

Objectively, I don't think the world has much meaning to it, but we somehow create meaning in our lives because we are so determined to dig for a purpose. Bernard says "Everything is the same even if it's different." Therefore everything holds the same value and just as everything is the same amount of importance, they also all hold the same amount of unimportance. The statement that everything is important and that "the center is everywhere" contradicts itself because if everything is the same, then they become meaningless. But then again, it's human nature to isolate objects and create some sort of importance in them whether it's great importance or not. We individualize ourselves and our surroundings and try to incorporate a purpose into its being.

I thought it was weird that Albert was so convinced that his coincidences with the man had some meaning to it and that he went as far as consulting an existentialist detective about it. When I think about coincidences I don't think of fate, I think of it as accidents... that just happens. This reminds me of a conversation I had with Rachel and Gavin yesterday. Rachel believes that everyone basically has a set purpose in life that they need to find and complete before their souls were at peace. Both Gavin and I agreed that purposes didn't exist and everything's just an accident. People can make of their life what they can and label something as their "purpose", but it has nothing to do with fate. I remember Rachel asking something like Don't you think your parents were meant to meet each other and have you so you can do what you're meant to do in life? To that I responded No, we're here just because we are. It just happened. After a bunch of back and forths, we didn't manage to convince the other of our ideas at all. ..Woah I just realized that sounded a lot like the fractured philosophies of Bernard's and Caterine's.

I'm not trying to say that life is meaningless, live meaninglessly; that we shouldn't do anything with our lives but just wander aimlessly about. Even though in my opinion, life isn't made to have an intended purpose, that doesn't necessarily mean we can't insert our own purpose into it. We can each determine what our individual mission in life is. This is the purpose we chose for ourselves that will add on the sort of meaning we've been craving for to our lives. It isn't something decided for us by outside forces (whether that's what we convince ourselves of or not).

I don't think I actually understood Albert's revelation in the end about the two overlapping philosophies. Did he combine the two or did he declare one over the other? I should look more into that because I don't think my extremist view is a healthy one.