What is the meaning to life?

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"Here's a challenge for you..."

"I want you to believe what I'm about to say..." 

"Not just hear it, not just understand it but believe it.."

"It's a fact you already know to be true but have never been able to fully accept.."

"And it's this... "

"YOU ARE GOING TO DIE ...."

"You, the person listening to me right now, are going to die.."

"It's difficult to even imagine isn't it?"

"Take a moment and try to picture what it's like to not exist..."

"You can't do it..."

"You're imagining darkness, black.."

"But there would be no black.."

"There would be no colour because there would be no way to perceive it..."

"And your mind recoils from that idea...."

"It's simply unable to conceive of its own non existence..."

"And so it concludes that it's impossible, that you'll live forever..."

"But you won't..."

"All things end..."

"All motion slows..."

"All heat becomes cold..."

"Life is an eddy in that current of entropy..."

"A brief chemical reaction that lights up the darkness and then its fuel spent, dissipates back to nothing..."

"Just like you will.."

"Your body is a marvellous and intricate machine built out of millions of of interconnected fragile systems..."

"And as you age each begins to slowly but surely deteriorate and break down.."

"When one of them does a doctor might be able to fix it.."

"But at some point there will be to many interlocking failures to proceed, and like a cascade of dominoes your joints, your eyes, your heart, your lungs, your memory, your entire body will fail..."

"It will happen..."

"And while it's difficult to hear this truth it is essential that you accept it.."

"Because every second that goes by in which you don't, is a second of your precious and finite life that you risk wasting...."

"So I'm gonna say it one more time and this time try as hard as you can to believe me..."

"You, yes you will die..."

"And there is nothing you can do to stop it"

-Seth Bankovic