But if you think about it... The people around you are just a bunch of cells and blood.
And if you think about it in a different way, they are highly complex beings whose elemental particles was once born in the heart of a star and which over billions of years has combined and recombined to bring before you a human being, as far as we know the only way the universe can know itself.
But talking to your family is kind of like just sitting there, talking to a brain that has eyes.
I'm sorry you feel that way.
I don't share that experience.
Because I know, as certainly as I can know anything, that no-one, living or dead, know or knew the meaning of it all.
And I don't think it's important for me to know either.
Even if I did think it was important, I see no way of finding out the meaning behind it all, and I tend not to worry too much about things I cannot change.
I agree, we should, but kind of hard knowing the small bits behind everything.
No-one knows the 'small bits' behind everything (unless you're talking about quarks, in which case we're making some headway).
Congrats on living! Sorry to hear about you almost dying.
I was hospitalised with the Swine flu and a lung infection on top of that, which put me in a coma for about a week and hospitalised for three.
I wasn't afraid then and I'm not afraid now.
See, no matter how you put it, I've lived a longer, better, fuller and more interesting life than at least 99% of the people who ever lived.
I've never known true pain, hunger or suffering.
I've been given access to all the education and knowledge I could want.
I've known love and friendship and the value of giving something to someone that they need.
What right do I have to complain if I should die tomorrow?
But it seems so empty and meaningless.
Life is pretty much what you make of it in my experience.
I routinely tell my pupils that they should choose their future education and profession not based on money or status or what other people think.
They should choose their path based on what they themselves want to do with their lives.
I have, and I am very happy with it.