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Thinking about how we came to be has always been an interesting topic to me. What I've been interested in hasn't really ever been how the world came to be, but more as to how I came to be and why I'm here. I've always felt like there has to be an important reason why I'm here, something I have to do, to accomplish, to make my life worth-wile. Thinking about this further after class, I realized that I'm probably here because of random chance. Though I thought this would be a depressing thought, to some extent it's freeing. If I have no importance in this world, then the pressure of searching for a greater meaning diminishes and life becomes easier. It is possible that we are all here just because. We are a miniscule part of this universe and even though we feel like we are a smart, developed species, our importance on a greater scale is almost non-existent.