Life is Absurd My Dear

One of the more interesting conversations that came up in our class this week while talking about existentialism is this statement that "Life is Absurd". The thing that is said to explain human life as absurd is this fact that we choose to continuously occupy our time with activity for no apparent reason.

I think that my answer is two sided, for it is biological and artistically amazing that we choose to use our energy as we do. We occupy ourselves with projects that will consume our time alive as a result of all of this energy that we have, and it is just the most amusing way that we can utilize it. In the long run of things, all living forms on earth do the same thing: why does a plant grow? what is the point of a tree? The amazing part about humans is that we enjoy creating, and we are really good at it, because no other life forms on earth have the same capabilities that we do in our creativity. The reason this is a cool argument to me though comes in two parts:

The fact that we create with no reason is true, and it is absurd; however, in creating we have come to using our creative abilities to please and impress other humans, as a beautiful art form of expression: and thus not so absurd as it was just moments ago.