According to Prof Brian Cox, there is only one philosophical question worth asking: “What does it mean to live a finite fragile life in an infinite, eternal universe?”
If you can’t get your head around being stood on this ball of cheese, we call the world, hurtling around a star, there is still value in this question at a much simpler level.
Stood on the side of a football pitch for example, or, at your child’s recital.
What am I doing here? You might be surprised at the answer. I’m willing to bet it won’t have anything to do with what’s in the news, on a spreadsheet, or what was bothering you this morning.