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life is pointless

So happiness is the pursuit of fleeting pleasure and empty gratification?

everything is fleeting

nothing lasts

150 years from now nobody will even know you or your children ever even existed
 
Albert Camus addressed this in The Myth of Sisyphus. Why doesn't a person kill themselves? What is it that keeps a person wanting to continue their life? That is the meaning of life, to each of us.

The exact quote is "The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself".

dopamine and serotonin

love and happiness

aka: pleasure
 
everything is fleeting

nothing lasts

150 years from now nobody will even know you or your children ever even existed

I don't think that forgetting me will require 150 years.
 
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