Existence is essentially absurd:
Why does God exist? I am pretty sure someone most have asked that question sometime before me, probably not sitting in front of a window wondering how to write the introduction for their English assignment but surely someone must have asked it at some point. For me after thinking about this subliminal question I've come to the conclusion that human beings need a reason that supports their existence, and that is why God exists. Because for most of us we cannot just be here, there most be a reason for our existence. If not it is essentially pointless, and it doesn't make a difference whether we are dead of alive. For me this is a topic highly brought upon in the novel "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, in the second part of the book after he has been sentenced to the Guillotine, Mersault expresses that death is just a great new adventure, he thought of it as a fresh start, so for him it didn't really matter if his execution came today or the day after for he was ready to embrace death as an old friend.
"Mother must have felt like someone on the brink of freedom, ready to start life all over again. No one, no one in the world had any right to weep for her. And I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe." (pg. 75)
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