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    For a more philosophical approach, I highly recommend "Heidegger: An Introduction by Richard Polt" to explore this exact question. To dig in further, it is very reasonable to ask "Why does the...

    For a more philosophical approach, I highly recommend "Heidegger: An Introduction by Richard Polt" to explore this exact question.

    To dig in further, it is very reasonable to ask "Why does the universe exist at all?" from a physics perspective.

    But you can get even more granular when reflecting on your conscious experience and be like "Why does anything exist at all? Why am I experiencing this experience at this very moment?".

    I had these sorts of thoughts a lot throughout my childhood, but recently I have had a very visceral internal experience of "Why the hell is this happening at all?". Nothing I write can communicate this internalization, but it does shake your sense of self and reality quite a bit.

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