Even 'There Is No Point' Is an Interpretation
Say, There is no point, and the sentence can land as despair. We often hear it as a verdict that nothing matters and no action is worth taking. But notice how much we have added to the words before we have examined them.
What if a point is not hidden inside an event, waiting for us to uncover it? We assign importance, make commitments, and organize our lives around what we care about. We can forget that we have done so and begin to treat our interpretation as a property of the world.
The claim that everything has an assigned purpose is one interpretation. The claim that nothing can matter is another. Neither is the mountain, the water, or the day in front of us. They are sentences we bring to what we meet.
Try the possibility that no point has been supplied in advance. It need not require cynicism. It may leave us free to choose a purpose honestly, to revise it when experience changes, and to be responsible for what we make significant.
Mountains can be mountains again. The meaning we live by can be something we create and answer for, rather than something we pretend we found written on the stone.