In physics we use the term “acausal instantiation” as a technical description for the unexplained appearance of matter. Quantum mechanics models say this happens at small scales where space and time are coarse things, which really isn’t relevant unless you’re like me and you believe in unconfirmed metaphors.

I think of life this way, as if at birth we pop into an existence seeded by our parents and then we escape into nothing when we die. At least when put into this context it helps me understand reincarnation, but I think more about the point of the journey when death doesn’t really exist.

If we start and end in the same place, why live at all? There must be something more to it than that, right?

Or maybe there isn’t. Perhaps petty fear and the profundity of transition all mean nothing, and the Universe goes on without a consideration for our wasted energy searching for meaning. One way or another, it doesn’t matter when time and space are coarse — I just need to live like the process is reversible.