The following is an excerpt from an article titled ‘Tragic Sense of Life’ that draws an interesting connection between a cup of coffee and the meaning of life:

We spend so much time worrying about whether or not our lives matter that we often fail to ask, “Does it matter if it matters?” We are here, now, regardless of any answer we might give in response. Entropy simply poses a question: what will we do with the present, today, if it affords us no other guarantee than that it will one day be forgotten?
Rather than dictating meaninglessness to the human condition, entropy forces us to ask the most important questions about meaning itself. If every single thing lasted forever, we would have no metric or criteria to determine value of a single day, relationship, or vision. If today never ended, today would have no value. Existence is valuable and meaningful because it is a limited resource. An entropic future means this experience, this life, these people, this day, and this cup of coffee, are the bearers of meaning itself.

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