A Short Commentary on Patterns and Life

Lately, as an avid reader of history, I've been observing patterns repeating themselves everywhere; on global levels, local levels, and even close at the level of the inner circle of family and friends. 

Patterns are both interesting and frustrating. They're interesting because they make you see how predictable humans are (in the long term), as groups and as individuals. We have certain triggers that set us in motion in one direction or another. The triggers are limited, the directions are limited, and the results continue to repeat themselves. 

Patterns are also frustrating because they show how we continue to record and document events and phenomena yet forget all about them when we're triggered to repeat them. We try to learn from our past by documenting it vigorously, yet only a tiny percentage of us observes the patterns at work in real life, and that tiny percentage is yet and again too small and powerless to prevent the majority from repeating the patterns. 

At the end of the day, this makes you question many things, including the value of life. Life may prove to be quite lacking in creativity overall. There is much more repetition than novelty. I mean MUCH more. We come to this conclusion through science as well as history. There is more evidence to support the theory that the emergence, development and decay of life is simply a universal phenomenon that is repeated all over the universe -- nothing about it unique to planet Earth. 

At the end of the day, perhaps we, sentient beings, are only meant to be observers under the illusion of acting; predestined under the illusion of free will.