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While wondering about crawfish, Theodore the Poet stumbles upon an interesting thought about life.  Watching how the crawfish would come out of its burrow everyday, Theodore went on to question its existence, “… What he knew, what he desired, and why he lived at all.” pg 19.  He then goes on to compare the actions of  humans to that of the crawfish and he draws an interesting connection which brings up a big question, what is the actual purpose of humans in life?  I immediately drew up a pessimistic view to this question, but then thinking deeper, saw the more positive aspects of it.  My thoughts are that there is really no set goal for all humans; everyone lives and dies and in the end, nothing really matters.  To me those thoughts seem kind of uplifting in a way.  Since there is no “real” goal in life why not just live your life to the fullest.  Everyone should live day by day, because in the end, everyone is going to the same end.  No matter what one does in the grand scheme of things, as long as one feels fulfilled in life, then they took the correct path and did the correct thing.