The Cease of Existence

On suffering, love, faith, and the void that waits for us all.

I saw the Aleph from every point, in all the universe. I saw the Aleph containing all other points—every face, every death, every mirror, every labyrinth.

— after Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph

Chapter −1: Suffering ?

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Now the majority of the people reading this article must be from the working class. Now we all struggle throughout our lives, working 9–7 everyday, crying, laughing, suffering, just to randomly die one day.

Some people fight for causes, some never even know the meaning of suffering, some don't even get out of their town for their whole life. But ultimately all types finally come down to one thing at the end: DEATH.

But why all this? Why even bother for anything, when eventually the suffering never ends, and even after suffering throughout your life, the ultimate outcome is your end. So how does it all even matter?

Although if you look from a very utopian point of view, you will realise that a free world is always better rather than a world with some weird rules and norms.

But even in this free world, we are ultimately slaved by time and death. We keep working, and all the planning we do, all the savings we do, all the decisions we take for the future—we do it from the point we know we are gonna die one day.

Now what's the meaning of slavery? Taking every decision of your life according to someone else. Isn't that what we all always do? Maybe there is a ~1% population that doesn't take decisions in life without ever thinking about death.

Chapter −2: Love ?

Why does a person love someone else? Maybe because they get warmth and compassion from other people. Why does a small kid love their grandparents? Because he/she knows they will never scold them and give them candies and gifts.

And if again everything comes down to material and feelings, then aren't all creatures selfish?

But then who decided this term of being selfish in this particular case?

But in short, we can conclude that love, compassion, and selfishness may be adjacent-door neighbors—not as far apart as we'd like to think.

Chapter −3: The Supreme Entity ?

There are instances in life where people lose hope in everything and go to a place to worship the supreme entity. Scientists call it hope; normal people call it faith. But the problem starts coming in two cases:

I. When we leave all the defence and action-taking ability in the hand of the supreme entity and stop doing it ourselves. Because the opposite ones—who don't believe in any supreme entity—never were relying on anyone else but alone themselves.

We have seen civilisations die, millions of people killed and raped. Till their last breath, they kept requesting the supreme entity to come and help them, but it didn't—and the ending, as you all know, is extremely sad. You can see multiple civilisations as examples of this: Egyptians, Greeks, and Indians.

II. When hope breaks—because everyone waits for that 1% chance in the worst time, when someone from above will come and help them. But almost in 100% of cases it doesn't happen.

Chapter −4: Life's Meaning & the Fool's Dilemma

Maybe none of these things ever matter—that's why we all know that foolish people are most of the time more happy than the intellectual ones.

We all keep searching for life's meaning, but maybe life was never meant to have a meaning.

Friedrich Nietzsche believed life has no inherent meaning—meaning we must actively create our own purpose rather than seeking it in religion or dogma.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So yeah, this sums up pretty much of it.

Would love to know the reader's thoughts on the same.

— Vishesh Tripathi