• I'm scared of my mortality.
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A thousand micro satellites, zooming across the tessellating gravity fields of 16 sister moons; a porous, idle giant looms across a distant star. The taffylike strands of a star's death, an infinity of quarks coalesce into a seething, writhing mass through the lugubrious void of space. A trillion billionfold microcosms churning through the rigors of life amongst a distant brother to Sol. Things I will never see. [img]http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2007-16-f-xlarge_web.jpg[/img]
I was the same. Trust me, you need to get out and enjoy life more. Simple as that. [editline]01:52AM[/editline] I totally do want to travel the lugubrious void of space at some point though.
:(
I was born too soon.
so what? enjoy what you have now and dont worry about anything else.
[QUOTE=Sparkwire;24302576]I was born too soon.[/QUOTE] Exactly.
I think it's moreso that we just don't like the fact that most of us will more than likely not be of any real significance to human history. It's just that it's natural for us to want to be "important".
You grow out of it. I know it sounds like an asshole thing to say, but you do. Everybody feels like that at a certain point where they totally freak out about their mortality and how big the universe is, and then they have to get a job and they're busy in the office from 9am-6pm and then they get married and have kids and just don't have time to think about that kind of stuff any more. It's kind of sad actually.
[QUOTE=analrapist;24302611] Everybody feels like that at a certain point where they totally freak out about their mortality and how big the universe is, and then they have to get a job and they're busy in the office from 9am-6pm and then they get married and have kids and just don't have time to think about that kind of stuff any more. [/QUOTE] God, I hope I never become like this. Not the job part, but, rather, the... Static part.
Like tears in rain dude. I'm waiting for the average life span to reach the event horizon and ride the medicine train.
You're not 21, OP, and by the way - grow up. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Why reply?" - SteveUK))[/highlight]
Scared of death eh? don't worry bout it. Actually do, I can almost guarantee you that someone who posts here will probably be dead in the next 10 years could even be me. Fuck I made myself feel bad now.
Oh well, you can't stop it, no reason to fear it.
Never forget how small you are, and don't let it distract the fact you can make a big difference.
You have a long enough life anyways. 1500 posts :haw:
You're never born too soon, life is a journey, make the best of it, be glad you were born when and where you were. You could be a 6 year old child worker in india 500 years ago.
[QUOTE=Siminov;24302951]You have a long enough life anyways. 1500 posts :haw:[/QUOTE] I'm, at once, amazed at how someone can think this way and also envious.
Take some anti-depressants.
I can see how this helps your mental state. Unfortunately it is true, you can't do much. Hell, search the web for some motivating links.
[QUOTE=Inacio;24302807]Grow some balls. Deal with it.[/QUOTE]
people saying death with it are retarded
Everyone gets this at one point or another, you will either get over it quickly, kill self, or get over it as you age. Just accept it, no sense fearing death or anything as you wont know when youre dead.
I find it a little bit ridiculous that everyone's solution to problems on this forum is "it's a stage" "I have cancer, I don't know what to do!" "you'll grow out of it" "My sister was ran over by a truck, comfort me." "everyone has their sister ran over by a truck at one point"
[QUOTE=Destitide;24303265]I find it a little bit ridiculous that everyone's solution to problems on this forum is "it's a stage" "I have cancer, I don't know what to do!" "you'll grow out of it" "My sister was ran over by a truck, comfort me." "everyone has their sister ran over by a truck at one point"[/QUOTE] everyone on facepunch responds that way you'll get used to it
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost in time, like tears...in rain.
[QUOTE=Sparkwire;24302576]I was born too soon.[/QUOTE] I was born too late. Villages and city-states dotting the landscape, heading out to sea and having falling off the edge as a real concern, looking up at the sky and seeing the gods and goddesses looking back, smiling. Pristine forests, clean air, water, food. Sigh [i]Yes, I realize the irony of saying this on the internet. And I'm also aware that life a thousand years ago was much harder than it is now. But I wouldn't have known the difference in the same way as I do now; having been born in an era where the world's history is available to me in minutes.[/i]
common Americans response: I dont give a FUCK! Common New Yorkers response: GO BACK TO JERSEY! My response: whats your point?
That OP is dangerously close to purple prose.
[QUOTE=Mega Tuna;24303431]common Americans response: I dont give a FUCK! Common New Yorkers response: GO BACK TO JERSEY! My response: whats your point?[/QUOTE] I'm not sure I understand what this is contributing to the discussion.
Now imagine if you would have been born 200 years ago.
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