Once stripped of its common romanticism, the Physical world is a foreign, strange, silent, cold and inhuman place; true knowledge is impossible and rationality and science cannot explain the world: their stories ultimately end in meaningless abstractions, in metaphors.
Universe seems purposeless, meaningless, chaotic, and irrational. Life has no intrinsic meaning or value. With respect to the universe, a single human or even the entire human species is insignificant, and without any purpose. When one considers the short span of his life absorbed into the preceding and subsequent eternity, the small space which he fills and even can see, swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which he knows nothing and which knows nothing of him.
There are moments when individuals question whether their lives have meaning, purpose, or value, and are negatively impacted by the contemplation. It may be commonly, but not necessarily, tied to depression or inevitably negative speculations on purpose in life e.g., "if one day I will be forgotten, what is the point of all of my work?"
This crisis may often be provoked by a significant event in the person's life—psychological trauma, marriage, separation, major loss, the death of a loved one, a life-threatening experience, a new love partner, psychoactive drug use, adult children leaving home, reaching a personally significant age (turning 18, turning 40, etc.), etc. Usually, it provokes the sufferer's introspection about personal mortality.
We build our life on the hope for tomorrow, yet tomorrow bring us closer to death and are the ultimate enemy; people live their lives as if they were not aware of the certainty of death.
How we come to terms with the social world. Human beings like to insist that there are reasons why things happen. The death of a child, the crash of an airplane, or a random shooting must be explained in terms of the workings of a hidden plan.
The social world appears to us as it ought not to be and the world as it ought to be does not exist. It is a condition of tension, as a disproportion between what we want or need and how the world appears to operate." When we find out that the world does not possess the thing we want or need. But long since believed it to have, we find ourselves in a crisis.
There are no higher truths that man can discover about life. In the face of such uncertainty, there is no basis for morality or justification for acting one way as opposed to another. 'Everything is permitted,'... is not an outburst of relief or of joy, but rather a bitter acknowledgement of a fact." A person gains freedom in a very concrete sense: no longer bound by hope for a better future or eternity, without a need to pursue life's purpose or to create meaning. This explains all that the unreasonable world .
It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, The universe and the human mind do not each separately cause the Absurd, but rather, the Absurd arises by the contradictory nature of the two existing simultaneously. When the “appetite for the absolute and for unity" meets "the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle."
The Absurd arises out of the fundamental disharmony between the individual's search for meaning and the meaninglessness of the universe.
by Zaheeruddin Babar
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