On the Last of Summer

Is there merit in trying to find a reason for everything?

We tend to see patterns and derive meaning from them. So that’s the reason we want to mark the passage of time at the very least, even when we’re not clear about what it all means. It must mean something, right? That’s why we have brains that perceive. You can say, well, that’s just for survival, that’s the mechanism of evolution. It means nothing and w…