why are we here?

[Lighthead]

We are here to realize there is nothing to do, it is all pointless and be joyful within that.

There is no purpose, we created the concept of why because we can't accept the inherent nature of things: Emptiness.

The idea of emptiness is only a perception like everything else. 

What would be the point of feeling joy about the pointlessness of everything? Why not just feel nothing? Wouldn't that align with nothingness better? I have read different translations of the Tao and understand the difficulty of putting into words the wordless. But I find the words, emptiness and pointless, somewhat injurious or carrying a sense of defeatedness. 

I prefer to see the universe as one of infinite possibilities, as in the wave function. If one chooses to do nothing, fine. But as far as I can tell, the universe is not static and in constant change. Perhaps there is a stillness in "the now," and that may be interpreted as emptiness, as when one meditates or creates art and the conscious world falls away. But the words, emptiness and pointless, once again, seem to fall very short of describing this state.

Words like emptiness and nothingness seem to be imperfect representations of their counterparts in the Eastern languages.