Is it mathematically impossible for us to be the only planet with life?

Science tells us that our planet is nothing more than a speck floating in the cosmos. Given that, is it a folly to attach too much value to life? Or is it all the more reason to protect and nurture it?

• Why bother about your fellow man when you both are gonna be dead in some decades, nothing more than an instant in the universal timeline? Why be so apathetic and careless about life when you know that life is a precious thing and not present everywhere? These are some polar opposite questions that have raged in my head ever since I have had the sense to appreciate them. I have my own answers. I now look forward to yours.

• Answer:

  Bad news: There are no easy answers. There is no one right answer. Good news: We get to decide/arrive at our own answers and those answers would be the 'right' ones for us. Universe vows nothing to us. At the same time we don't vow anything to anyone either. Looking for an anchor point (a point of reference) to base our life's philosophy and approach is futile endeavor because no such thing exist. What matters to us is not necessarily the absolute validity/truth about something but its relevance in our individual life. Life is intrinsically meaningless (that is external to us). That said however, it's purpose is the one we define.