Life is a phenomenon just like Wildfires, destruction or hate.
When a hurricane forms and breaks a house down, its pieces fly of and become part of the hurricane, right? those pieces break off and hit other houses, buildings, people, creating even more loose and light pieces of junk only to be thrown away by the hurricane again, repeating the ‘cycle’. Thing is: the hurricane isn’t alive, its the calamity that’s alive, lasting usually a month at best before exthinguishing due to entropy… Think about it, butterflies last only a day before becoming innert and dead.

Now get this: There’s all these mechanisms, One for gathering and sorting material, for creating more of itself, and for surviving and reacting to input (enviroment) in a cell. Cells eat s*** and duplicate because that causes it to multiplicate more. ‘Natural Selection’ is a phenomenon (not a law) that goes hand in hand with life itself. Meaning, there is no purpose to you, reader, or any of us. Long ago a little little creature just ‘happened to happen’ in a specific way that allowed it to happen even more, leading to life on earth that lasts thousands of years. Its not that long if you think about it.
Now THATS a maddening thought!