arbitrary

Why do we make the choices we do?
After all, we do not have unlimited freedom to do things

We find ourselves constrained by our gender,
our race, our economic circumstances,
our personalities that were shaped both by genetics
and the random processes of life

Furthermore, we find that other people
have their own ideas of what we should be doing,
and they constrain us still further



A person born into one culture
will have entirely different options
than one born into another

They may both lead valuable lives,
but they will most certainly differ in many respects

The meaning that they find will come from different palettes.
We cannot say that one person's life
is more valuable than another's



All meaning in life is arbitrary.
It is not tied to god, family or self
unless we define it as such.
Nothing in life gives us meaning in and of itself

It is we who assign meaning to objects and relationships.
We all try to make the structure of our meaning pretty,
but in the end, there is no escape from the feeling
that it is all arbitrary