Everything is going good in my life and i dont need to complain about anything. But as the night approaches i pray of not being alive the next day. I dont know why i am feeling so but almost everyday i sort of pray for my death. I dont seem to find my life meaningful but never have i even attempted to end my life and i never intend to do it as well. But then everyday i find myself thinking and reading about death or ending the life.
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Are you passionate about anything?
No not really. And i am losing interest in most of the things
keep ur chin up the apocalypse is coming sooner than u think
Life is a thing without any words, that wasn’t made by anybody. Finding meaning in stuff like that is harder than making a square circle.
Hi rivets, I am glad that you are still alive because you are part of the old guard on SP and it’s harder and harder to find people alive from the old guard.
Anyway, I disagree with you here. I strongly believe life has meaning even if it’s so difficult to find it on this planet and in this age.
A lot of old timers are still around, they just don’t visit the site much. They’ve moved on to kikland or something. I don’t like using a phone to interact, and frankly don’t have the free time for instant-reply dynamics. Give me a text box and a few hours and I might think up a response to something.
What is meaning, anyhow? I always thought it was something that a mind created so that other minds could understand it – kind of underlying language, like subtext. Without minds to create it, or minds to receive it, is meaning even possible? Is it necessary?
I know that you are a deep person. And unfortunately I am not a good teacher to express my ideas.
But to give you a short explanation and I hope a deep one(although it will still sound religious):
Maybe the universe was created for us and we chose to experience it. Thus the meaning of life is life itself. Actually if you want to know the answer, what is it that you seek? The meaning of life?
To know the answer we need to understand how a person FEELS when one wants to know the meaning of life and thinks there is no meaning. Such a person feels numb, empty, frustrated because of the apparent chaos in one’s life.
But we know that for every negative feeling there is a positive feeling. So, there are also people who feel alive, whole and peaceful and some of them believe they have found the meaning of life.
So, who is right? The people who say life has no meaning, or the people who say: life does have a meaning.
In my opinion, none. Life has meaning if you want to have meaning. You are part of the universe(Yes, I go into metaphysics here and don’t have to believe what I say) and you decide what you want to experience.
Lack of meaning- feelings: numbness, emptiness, even despair in some people and you can continue(I don’t know very well the feelings because I have always thought that life does have a meaning, this is what I decided to believe because that is what I want to experience).
-thoughts: you believe that the universe was created by itself or by a strange god who doesn’t care about humans, is too far away, etc. Life is pointless and you are born to experience a single life then you die. Birth is random. You can get born in any family and you cannot choose.
So, to finish, I would say that this physical world which is clearly imperfect would make us believe that life has no meaning. So, it’s actually harder to believe in something and to believe there is meaning in life.
The philosophy of death is quite spread on this planet unfortunately.
I hope I gave you something different.
Again, what is meaning? I’ve never said there is no meaning, just that it’s not something we have to find, as though it were hard-wired into the fabric of the universe itself. Meaning requires a mind and language – it’s squishy and subjective like that. If there were no possibility of meaning in anything, there would be no minds attempting to communicate that idea to other minds. There would be no minds to receive it. There also would be no mimes, and a mime is a terrible thing to waste.
And sorry again for getting involved in metaphysics. But it’s very hard to explain the meaning of life if you focus only on the … I would say apparent reality.
I also believe the meaning of life is “to live life” itself . But the plainness of the life bores me somehow. So if living doesn’t amaze me then why whould i live anyways.