Entropy

Entropy sounds interesting. A word, everyone who has come across, believes to understand.

For some it stands for energy, it's randomness. To a few, it's some fancy Sci-Fi term you can throw around to sound serious. To a few, it might be a pony's name.

Just like the definition of life, entropy is not definitive. In all fairness, to me, it's a term humanity coined to explain why the universe does what it does. Ever since the BIG-BANG, time had only moved in one linear line. As time moves the ice melts, and soups chill, until the HEAT-DEATH.

What if we reverse that? What if the physics were reversed?

Would life still exist? Is Life just a consequence of increasing entropy? Why is it growing?

I'm not a physicist, yet the question is quite interesting. Entropy is the growing randomness in the system, the dispersion of energy into the environment. It is what happens to us as we grow up, with entropy, our bodies change and eventually, they decay. In the celestial realm, stars are born in the nebulas and die after billions of years. Energy keeps flowing, random events keep happening. From the first methane molecule to cellulose, life was here because of physics.

Every event leads me here. I'm a narcissist, who somehow hit a midlife crisis quite early, and then read a few books he randomly felt tempted to buy. He watches a video or two about Entropy because he likes science. Couldn't sleep, so he overthinks. Next thing we know, he's writing late at night about Entropy, feeling all inspired.

When you do the maths, you find out that most things happen because some random atom transfers energy. Begging the question of free will, if randomness governs our lives, then, why care at all?

We all get moody; we give in to two possibilities:

1. If I'm not in control, someone might be pulling the strings for me.

So, I must be my best self so they feel like I deserve to be helped.

I don't believe any higher sense of power and purpose is at play when we decide to live. And even if there was, why would they care?

Man created God to feel in control of his destiny. Culture and religion were a means to preserve that peace, a white lie to avoid the truth about the universe. Afterlife was born to ease the acceptance of death.

The optimist denies pain.

2. If I'm not in control, then nothing matters.

We give into pessimistic thoughts that nothing matters if free will was just a game of roulette at the atomic level. Then why bother?

If life is so meaningless then why is it hard for you to just jump off a cliff? Why do you hold back? What stopped you?

The pessimist sees nothing but pain.

Both are living in ignorance of the other.

Sure, everything that we think and feel is born from randomness and incredibly complicated biochemistry. It's normal to be on either side of the spectrum. We are just as intelligent as the Sims (characters from a popular video game, Sims), a bit more complex. Just like those virtual living dolls, we think we are alive and in control because chemistry dictates our reasoning.

"So, when they say things happen for a reason, just know they do. But the reason is just as random as the event. It changes nothing yet some things change."

The truth is there's no grand design, and that is a grand design. Life is paradoxical. Everything is Random. Trust me you wouldn't like living in a predictable rational world, I mean it sounds like a dictatorship, doesn't it?