• My (unresolved) Existential Crisis
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As school approaches and people are getting ready. I've come to a startling realization. I go to school so I can get into a good college, so that I can get a well paying job or start a business so I can have whatever I want. But then what? That's kind of the end of that. I mean, after that the only thing you're waiting for is retirement and after retirement you get to do what you want but only for a short time before death is at your door. And even then I'm still unsure of the existence of the afterlife or God. I'm seriously depressed. I can't find anyone except for a few people. Everyone else (not including facepunch) Seems to artificial. So self absorbed and worried over the petty things in life. I would go to a psychologist but there is no point in that. Put me on medications? I've been there and done that. I don't need drugs to help me function. They dull your mind and after a long enough time, you are putty in the hands of those around you. Your parents get to mold you into their vision of who they want you to be. Your friends push for you to drink or have sex with the hottest girl in the class. What should I do? I feel like I've reached a dead end. Not even a fork in the road of who I want to be. The pieces are starting to fall into place and my king, my very reason for living is endangered by those around me. I'm not looking for sympathy or condolence I just need meaning again. My life has no meaning other than to work myself to death and consume as much as I can. I really don't care what everyone else thinks. And before you think I'm some whinny emo-kid, I'm not. I just got a haircut, I shave everyday and I shower. I try to take care of myself the best I can. I'm sixteen and lost. Give me meaning, I know you can. If you want to hear anymore, I'll tell you about my childhood and all the things I have been through just to give you a better idea of what I am facing. But I won't bother unless this thread is being read.
Get happy pills.
Find something in life you enjoy and feel passionate about. And you don't [I]have[/I] to go to college if you really think you won't benefit from anything there and you don't [I]have[/I] to find a conventional source of income. You should also ask for more attention from facepunch while you try to act deep.
Money, money, money is pretty much your goal. Well, and having a family. But families cost munay
You know whats the simplest answer to this? You only live once. so do what every you can and become the best person out there! You can start by getting a avatar.
Um, enjoy your fucking life? My recent "existential crisis" came when I graduated high school and realized that I had not one true friend my whole four years of high school (literally, the ~3 friends I now have I met in my last semester of senior year and haven't seen all summer), and that there's not one memory or event I can single out from my life as something I'd remember in twenty years as an "epic adventure" or experience. I now feel as though my entire childhood has been wasted staying inside my home on the computer alone, and that I've missed out on so much shit other kids take for granted. Oh and what did I do about this? Nothing, of course, I let the last summer of my youth slip away by sitting on the computer playing fucking gaems all day. So now I hav eno childhood, no memories, no life, and I shelter myself from what is blatantly obvious by telling myself it'll be different later and shit but it wont because i can't do anything except sit on my ass all day on this fuckking forum and website and i dunno why. i'm going to bed i'm just rambling incoherently now.
If you want a meaning to life, Make it to enjoy it. Enjoy the moment, Enjoy the moments ahead of you. You go to school to get a good job so you can use money to buy and do the things you love.
Get a job you enjoy, first off. Then you're not waking up every morning just to put bread on the table. Other than that, it seems like you're coping with the fact that in the end, we all die and whatever we did is left behind.
I think love is the answer to life. Find someone special. :h:
life's about being happy. and being happy is not necessarily about having 'goals' to achieve after 'education.' find out what you like doing, and keep on doing it, or start doing it, or start working towards being able to start doing it. or whatever. but don't look for a resolution to this crisis you're having because there really isn't one. or you could just fap whenever you feel like this
Just do something; write a story just for yourself, learn a language, meets some people, because you will find people who aren't artificial. Really, do stuff that doesn't make you focus on the bad things, the worse part of humanity, but the better things, the beauty, elegance and wholeness of life. Focusing on things that make you a people doesn't make you want to live life to it's fullest, just live life like a robot. Do things that are extraordinary. :toot:
Do as damn well much as you can during your life, you only live once so try to get you're self out there and let people know that you're not just a faceless blob.
Sometimes i think how life would be as a hobo, free to go anywhere without responsibility.
Life has no meaning.
No matter what you do, It will be all for nought.
Become a hermit, live off the land.
find people that have the same interests as you, and fraternize with them. seriously, i had a simple networking class last year, and we were all pretty much bros at the end of the year(and the one female in the class loves me as if we were family).
Once you've finished college, gotten a degree, and are on your own you don't need to get a job or a house or raise a family or anything like that; you can just do what you want. When you think about it being bound to a house or a job is really just an illusion, you have the freedom to go on a road trip or cross the country any time you want once you're of legal age to do so. If you're scared of having an uneventful life than just try your best to make it eventful.
I felt a bit the same way before I started volunteering at a local camp. Just get out and enjoy life
You will figure this out in due time, dear child. In due time.
Meet my gay/bi/lesbian lover, 4chan.
Heroine. It's the only way.
drop out of school, form a band, make music about your problems instant millionaire
Make a club where you fight people
Drink AND have sex with the hottest girl in class.
What about your childhood?
Get a hobby. A real one.
Basically, you need to follow two basic guidelines: 1) Don't be such a fucking pessimist, it won't make your life any more meaningful. 2) Like most people said (in one way or another) do the most things you can in life. Enjoy what you enjoy, do what you want to do. Life is really fucking short in the grand scheme of things, so pack as much fun into it as you can. Sure, we all have to work, that's just part of life. Nothing we can do about it. Work your ass off, and have as much fun as you can on your downtime. /life
I feel the same sometimes...
Don't worry mate, Linkin Park is releasing a new album soon and I'm sure that will help you get through your crisis.
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