We Are Alone

''We live alone, we die alone, everything else is just an illusion"

I heard this quote once and thought, then why are we here? What's our purpose? We all die alone.. so why are we condemned to spend our lives working, struggling for an illusion? Seeing as no matter the amount of friends, or the time invested in a project will help us change our fate, dying alone, aren't there better things to do with our time?


I was forced to ask myself these questions at the time and now again when reading a book called The Stranger. Asking ourselves what we really think about life and how we perceive and take part in it. Through a quite simple character who seems quite complex in the eyes of society we are exposed to existentialism. All of us lead the lives we do because of what we've been taught, very rarely does one stop and think about their lives and inner happiness. There are so many important things to think about that sometimes things like homework, or even your job seems meaningless. What are we working towards?


Mersault was a man with a calm demeanor who lead a calm life to anyone that did not know him it must have looked like any other person. His life style was quite the extraordinary thing, just acting on things because his simple thought was quite simply, why not? He focused on only the present and had no worries nor thoughts of the future. He already knew what awaited him, dying alone, so what if he did kill that man it really made no difference. Mersault also thought that even if he did die nothing changed, you would eventually be forgotten (that is if you're remembered at all) and life will go on without incident.


Life and what you do really has no meaning, but it is absolutely crucial that you do it. We are alone, yet we still live, and still do the things we do in our day to day because at the end of it all what matters most is what you did with your time and what it meant to you, above anyone else.