Driving to work I had a Nihilistic moment.

[sityeuropa]

I just remember being happy as a kid, early teens.

Then college kicked in and for some reason sucked the life out of me

I like to keep going to see what the future holds. You never know one day we may find other life out there somewhere, that's a day I would like to experience. How much can we find out about the universe, I'd like to see the piece to that puzzle.

 

[Pestilence]

Oh what, everyone that posted my life is bad ******** should be ashamed of themselves. Whiny bitches every single one of you,......life is precious, you only get one so make it count. Enjoy the little things, appreciate how privileged you are driving to work in a car from your house with water and heating and a fridge to your job before returning to use your home PC and internet connection. There are many folk less fortunate so try your best to meaningful life.

Feel free to hit yourself with your keyboard repeatedly for a good 5 minutes before turning over a new leaf and living like responsible men.

 

[bradUK]

So many whiney bitches.

Do Acid, get laid, surf.

 

[Robosapien]

Oh what, everyone that posted my life is bad ******** should be ashamed of themselves. Whiny bitches every single one of you,......life is precious, you only get one so make it count. Enjoy the little things, appreciate how privileged you are driving to work in a car from your house with water and heating and a fridge to your job before returning to use your home PC and internet connection. There are many folk less fortunate so try your best to meaningful life.

Feel free to hit yourself with your keyboard repeatedly for a good 5 minutes before turning over a new leaf and living like responsible men.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Being all hypocritical and moaning about other people moaning.

Life isn't precious, life is cheap, little miracles are happening everywhere. Zombie humans are shagging and spitting out little sprogs all over the globe without a second thought about what programming is driving this (or whom may have sold them the blueprint for the 'nuclear family' ideal etc.)

Your life is supposed to be amazing so show gratitude for 'little things', like mass produced consumer electronic goods and water you have to pay for despite extreme flooding. Don't you think it's a little vacuous and shallow to draw meaning from material commodities? Is this all that's important to you? Is this a reason for 'life' to you?

What a despicable thing to do, to compare yourself to less fortunate people and draw thankfulness from it. 'I'm alright Jack'. 'My life is okay, I'm not dying of starvation loolll.'

"Living a meaningful life / acting like responsible men?"
You do know women have posted in this thread right? There you go propagating this idea that 'men must be men and do men things like never moan because moaning is whiny and not very men like'. Since when does 'acting like responsible men' equate to 'never questioning the meaning of your own existence'?
What is 'living a meaningful life' and what does it mean? Another catchphrase spat out and parroted by the masses with little thought behind it. We're all meaning making machines, meaning is held conceptually in our minds like colour and bears no resemblance to objective physical reality. It might influence your actions but to what end?

 

[easyrider]

Oh what, everyone that posted my life is bad ******** should be ashamed of themselves. Whiny bitches every single one of you,......life is precious, you only get one so make it count. Enjoy the little things, appreciate how privileged you are driving to work in a car from your house with water and heating and a fridge to your job before returning to use your home PC and internet connection. There are many folk less fortunate so try your best to meaningful life.

Feel free to hit yourself with your keyboard repeatedly for a good 5 minutes before turning over a new leaf and living like responsible men.

And committing philosophical suicide is making it count?

Enjoying little things is making it count? Stuff like the internet and computers are making it count?

Material possessions are making it count?

I'm sorry but you delusion is bursting at the seams...The whole point of existence is to feel it...be it...question it...think it...

All you are doing is looking after yourself...and smothering yourself with fluff to keep yourself in check.

Your response to life is to block any real experience with distraction.

"Sisyphus, knows the whole extent of his wretched condition: it is what he thinks of during his descent. The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that can not be surmounted by scorn.

 

[garak112]

I have these thoughts and lot and would like to change something on the work front to see if that makes an improvement.

My problem is that I don't know what it is I want to do (but it isn't this), really I'd want to work for myself doing something different. I just need to figure out what that is.

 

[easyrider]

I have these thoughts and lot and would like to change something on the work front to see if that makes an improvement.

My problem is that I don't know what it is I want to do (but it isn't this), really I'd want to work for myself doing something different. I just need to figure out what that is.

Good luck...life comes from the search...

 

[G-MAN2004]

Oh what, everyone that posted my life is bad ******** should be ashamed of themselves. Whiny bitches every single one of you,......life is precious, you only get one so make it count. Enjoy the little things, appreciate how privileged you are driving to work in a car from your house with water and heating and a fridge to your job before returning to use your home PC and internet connection. There are many folk less fortunate so try your best to meaningful life.

Feel free to hit yourself with your keyboard repeatedly for a good 5 minutes before turning over a new leaf and living like responsible men.

Just because you have it better than someone else in the world, it doesn't mean it should automatically make you happy.

If I went the same route as the majority of people (mortgage, wife, few kids, one holiday a year, Audi A4 on finance, etc.) I would honestly end it. Utterly depressing thought, despite the fact that millions would kill for such a position.

 

[Hedge]

People just don't have the balls to change what they don't like.

Don't like your wife any more? Divorce
Don't like your job? Quit.
Don't like where you live? Move.
Don't like materialistic life? Sell your stuff, live off the land.

People don't do that because they are scared, and if you are scared of life then yeah it's wasted on you.

Personally I'm just lazy, lying in bed at 10.50am on a Sunday in my mortgaged house with my boring car on the drive and a chunk of cash on a credit card.

But does it bother me? Nah I'm here through my own choice. You can't really whinge about stuff you brought on yourself.

 

[jpod]

Re-read my post.

You're privileged, first world whinge bags, you have no idea how lucky you all are. Lucky to be born, lucky to be able to see this read and type.

Did you know every single one of your ancestors survived just so you can be here today. If they read what you posted they would give you an atomic wedgie.

Responsibility
The ability to respond, if you don't like where you are, what you are doing, respond goddamit.

Be aware you have the ability to respond.

Enjoy the little things
Human relations, a feather, rain drops on a spider's web, all those tiny pins on your MB. If your happiness is related to your bank account, the size of your house, your car, what you own and materials things then your happiness is limited.

Change the OS in your mind
Like Windows and Linux there is a OS in that noggin of yours, your mind. Perhaps it is time to do a fresh install.

No one said it would be easy. Look at your calendar and mark the day you are going to change, reinvent yourself, just like Madonna does. And do it.

Most important lead a meaningful life.

Don't forget to smile.

BradUK's alternative is also a contender. Minus the acid. Don't do drugs, without Brad.

 

[easyrider]

People just don't have the balls to change what they don't like.


Don't like your job? Quit.
Don't like where you live? Move.
Don't like materialistic life? Sell your stuff, live off the land.

People don't do that because they are scared, and if you are scared of life then yeah it's wasted on you.

I don't dislike my job...But it doesn't prevent it being pointless...

But we have to work (unless we win the lottery) and if we sell or our stuff where do we get the land?

These are ideals that cannot be manifest.

Personally I'm just lazy, lying in bed at 10.50am on a Sunday in my mortgaged house with my boring car on the drive and a chunk of cash on a credit card.

But does it bother me? Nah I'm here through my own choice. You can't really whinge about stuff you brought on yourself.

Again its not about whining about things its just having a realisation its all meaningless.

 

[StriderX]

Just have some narcissistic grandiose self-aggrandizing realization instead later to combat it.

 

[easyrider]

Lucky to be born,

Luck? I never asked to be born...

This is Facticity.

German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) discusses facticity as the "thrownness" of individual existence, which is to say we are "thrown into the world." By this, he is not only referring to a brute fact, or the factuality of a concrete historical situation, e.g., "born in the '80s." Facticity is something that already informs and has been taken up in existence, even if it is unnoticed or left unattended.

 

[Puzzled]

It might sound ridiculous and the extreme of all "first world problems" but perhaps we just have it too easy.

Living a comfortable life, not rich just getting by has never been easier and the fight for survival is pretty much non-existent.

The contemplation of your existence is a luxury really once you are past the daily distractions of simply surviving.

 

[jpod]

Again its not about whining about things its just having a realisation its all meaningless.

If it helps asking what is the meaning of life is a stupid question in the first place.

Since there is no way of looking at the back of the text book to see the answer. So you can move on from there straight away.

Luck? I never asked to be born...

This is Facticity.

German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) discusses facticity as the "thrownness" of individual existence, which is to say we are "thrown into the world." By this, he is not only referring to a brute fact, or the factuality of a concrete historical situation, e.g., "born in the '80s." Facticity is something that already informs and has been taken up in existence, even if it is unnoticed or left unattended.

The (ctrl + C) + (ctrl + V) is strong in this one.

 

[jpod]

Just have some narcissistic grandiose self-aggrandizing realization instead later to combat it.

Nailed it

 

[lunar]

This is particularly evident in the winter.
I read a good novel when commuting on the Tube. I have on occasions even missed my station.
Avoid music and games.
However, if you have to drive to commute, then you are stuffed.

 

[easyrider]

If it helps asking what is the meaning of life is a stupid question in the first place.

Since there is no way of looking at the back of the text book to see the answer. So you can move on from there straight away.



The (ctrl + C) + (ctrl + V) is strong in this one.

It's obvious it was a copy and paste...

 

[413x]

My job really gets me down and dejected. Either being made redundant or a change is coming in next few months.
Trying to decide if it's the company or job I don't like.
For me spending 8 hours 5 days a week feeling 'surplus' is soul destroying

I know I need to change it, but my own mind is locked down from making progress with it.

Kind of want the boot to give me the kick up the arse I need
Once I leave work I switch off from it completely.. I've gotten very good at not worrying about some things (others.. I worry loads about)

I've never cared about changing the world
Don't want to live for work (have seen what that can do!)
Generally don't think having 2x money would make me happier
Don't care about what happens in the world (let's face it, I'm not going to change it)
Only really care about me, friends and family

But it's so hard to loose money.. All jobs I'd enjoy are lower pay.
Tough choices need to be made!
I have no idea what I should/want to do

Yeah I have had a lot of these moments in last 8 months
Funny, I get them in the car too! That.. I wonder how exciting it would be to drive off that! Lol

Don't think there's a point in life at all. I just know I prefer to feel happy than not. Hence I aim for that
I don't think life is precious
I don't think there is anything after death
I don't think it really matters if I die tomorrow or in 50 years.
I don't think suicide is some terrible thing

I really don't know why I'm 'scared' of death guess it's just instinct!
If I wasn't scared of death I really wouldn't be here now lol.
It even annoys me that logically (according to that I believe death is the end) that I am scared of death as it makes no sense! Drives me mad! Pesky instinct!

I don't even think it's 'sad' or 'depressing' that life is pointless, it just makes sense. Sometimes it's a good thing as makes you take bigger risks!

Work has always been just to facilitate life.. Probably why I don't push myself forward too much with it

 

[jpod]

I am sorry to read this, why not speak to a professional, we would all benefit from 10 sessions, I know I am ready for mine, but with some work you can lead a meaningful life.

best wishes