Entropy

Entropy is basically the natural and inevitable descent into chaos.

There are times when I feel that life as we know it is simply pushing back at entropy.  Eat so you don't die and decompose.  Shower so you don't get filthy and stink.  Earn money in order to eat and keep the lights on in your house.  Clean the house so you don't live in a chaotic mess.  Procreate so the human race doesn't die out.  Buy a car to support the economy so that others can do the same exact thing.

Nothing is permanent, nothing at all.  Even the pyramids will eventually succumb to chaos.  But centuries before that happens, you and I and our houses and businesses and cars and cities will be long since forgotten.

So do things with your life that are more than just pushing back at entropy.  Fight it.  Do something that will last longer than you do.  Make something that will last.  Make something that will become an heirloom.  Paint something that people will still look at when your generations grand-kids are old and gray.  Write something that will collect dust in the Library of Congress until someone stumbles across it decades later and thinks it's the best they have ever read, like it was written for them.  Sing a song that has never been sung and winds up being hummed by happy people for ages.

Turn off the computer and go do something with your life.  Not everybody will be DaVinci or Picasso, but that shouldn't stop you from trying.