Where is the sense of life?

Knowing people is probably the best thing that can happen to you in your short existence on Earth. Knowing people will help you to get a job, to find a flat, to make decisions. Knowing many people a little better will give you some very important things in life - joy, strength or the feeling of being needed, to just name three of them. Knowing few people better will give you the most important gift in life: Friends. Sometimes friends ARE your life. Sort of...

Currently, there are approximately 6.75 billion people living on this cozy, little planet called the Earth. I am one of them.

If I took a look at my address book, I'd maybe find 100 names. If I took a closer look, I'd maybe find 200. If I counted every single person, who I ever took a photo of (well, as you might know, I'm addicted to taking photos...), I don't think I could find more than 5.000 different faces. And this would only be, if I included all those pictures of random people at random places taken over the last 21 1/4 years. Double this figure, to take all those into account that I haven't taken a photo of. Using this (to be honest, pretty randomly guessed) figure, I draw the conclusion that I could have had the theoretical chance to meet approximately 1,5 e-4 % of the Earth's population. I haven't even recognized 1/100 of them. Probably far less.

Well. And what am I doing? Instead of heading out, to tell this negligibly tiny fraction of persons, that I know at least a negligibly tiny little bit better, that I love every single one of them, I'm sitting in my cozy, little room, drinking Coke and am learning for "Rechnungswesen". What the heck is that???

Sorry for being a little philosophical. All in all, I can't complain, university rocks, and so does my life. It's just that somedays... I don't see too much sense in it...


P.S.: By the way - YES, I really DO love you! Otherwise I would have forgotten about you long, long time ago, to save some memory on my internal hard drive for all those persons who really matter to me. So, be assured - you're part of that negligibly tiny little fraction still existing in my head! ;-)