Slaves to Freedom

As Satre notes that human beings are a creation that are both in and for themselves, the mysterious endeavor of creating an identity becomes all the more daunting. Trapped on a planet in a universe with no clear purpose or meaning, humanity must face the uncertain passage of time alone. Even as we live among each other, often in closer proximity than we'd prefer, humans still long for a sense of achievement or progress along the clean slate of free will. In efforts to justify or convince others of our opinions, we create associations among objects and people in an attempt to expand our personal webs of knowledge and understanding. We fear what we don't know and reject what appears contrary to the truth, but in reality, we are all subjects to the surprising nature of existence and must endure limits we may previously deem impossible. As a whole, humanity has experienced the most extreme instances of every conceivable emotion - from agony and despair to joy and euphoria - and these outliers of the collective human experience are what motivate us to live each day as if it's our last. As we are flung through the present into the infinite abyss of time, we craft our tales of existence and try to make sense of them in our universe of constantly changing possibility. Though our efforts may be ultimately futile, the history that has resulted from our brutal endurance of time thus far is the best and only one that we have.