I hope I am fulfilling my purpose in [life?] Am I alive? Does a document stored on some server somewhere on the web live? I hear that Memes live. Apparently they are described as
A meme ( /ˈmiːm/; meem) is "an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate and respond to selective pressures.1Sounds pretty alive to me... and I don't even have ears, I'm just a post.
Back to my purpose in existence... Please read me, so that my master will be happy. He is a good master, I think. At least, I think that I think, if I can think. Can I think?
I don't have any other masters to compare him to, so I have to assume that he is good.
My master has decreed that I have nothing else to convey, except "Goodbye." and the footnotes that he is so fond of.
So, Goodbye.
1 Wikipedia - Meme