Who's world is it?

It is very mind boggling to think that genes are the ones that control our bodies. I mean, genes are responsible for creating us and we are merely vehicles for "them" to keep copying themselves forever.

Talking about being selfish there..

Genes create us humans, and all the other living organisms in order to "live forever (obviously copies of them will be the ones that will leave forever).

I cant yet grasp this idea...

What this means is that we are nothing special. Our brains fool us into thinking we are special but we are vehicles, that appeared because of replication mistakes and are nothing important to the world in which we live in.

It reminds me of the typical movie in which there is an alien controlling the mind of a human. It feels really disappointing. It is as if we were puppets for longevity and I don't feel bad about it because it contradicts any supernatural idea in relation to God or even the afterlife. I feel bad because it means that we don't really have a purpose in life.

If we were created by mistakes on the replicating process. And are going to change into some other vehicle in the future. We ARE really the same as the rest of the living organisms in a bad way. In the way that we are there by luck and don't have much to do in life.

I hope there is another meaning for this. Maybe Dawkins over-exaggerates the idea that genes are the rulers of the world. Hopefully they were merely created for a higher purpose. I mean, if we might have been created for a higher purpose. They might as well have been.

Anyways. Life is too short to spend it questioning things that you'll never really grasp. We wont be able to know many things in the universe because there is simply not a way that we can learn them. For instance, we cant ask genes what is their ultimate purpose. Or, nobody cant objectively tell us our purposes our humans. We might as well do our best in answering, move on and enjoy life.