#thismightnotmakesense

I AM HAVING SUCH A LARGE EXISTENTIAL CRISIS RIGHT NOW.

Guys, the Earth will one day no longer exist, and everything around us right now - the people, the places, the emotions, the cities, everything - will simply not exist as it does and will just return to being atoms...

And here we are right now, we have this life to live and we have emotions to express and people to love, yet we take it all for granted...this life is truly truly amazing and invaluable and we've been so privileged to have the ability to live.

When you realize that everything is going to return to atom form, you realize that it's not necessarily the material goods that make life worth living, but the human connections...that's special and cannot be replicated. There's a meaning to it that transcends our short lives and makes life worth living.

We're all going to die, so we have to appreciate this one life we've got and develop deep relationships with other people, who are on this crazy, wild journey with us. Love and friendship and all other emotions are so important - people will literally kill for it.....and here we are, putting a secondary importance on it...

I have this friend who posted her picture on a public Facebook page, and she messaged me sort of late at night with a link to the picture with all of its comments, so I look through them, as she was not the kind to message me for no reason at ten o'clock when I had to get up in the morning for school.

So I look through the comments. They were horrible. A great many commented on her being "ugly" and "looking funny", and how people felt bad for "her friends that had to look at her."

I felt like crying for my friend, right then, because I couldn't imagine getting that kind of response from complete strangers.

So I started thinking, after comforting her and laying down to sleep, and I began to wonder what kind of person you had to be to say something like that. I'm highly aware that some people feel a sort of invincibility on the internet, enabling them to say things that maybe they wouldn't say if you were face to face, but at the same time, why?

It's strange for me to think that people would say something horrible to another human being, when there is nobody that I know who would at all be okay with somebody calling them "ugly."