You sound like me when I were your age, anyway
there is a solution to everything!
First, you should really do new things like a lot of people
already told you, but don't think about doing them, otherwise
you'll get lazy, you have to actually do them!
Go grab yourself some gunpowder and go blow something, that's
pretty fun! And gets adrenaline pumping too!
Than do something that somebody always tell that you shouldn't,
like jumping from the roof to the pool, or going down a hill/slide
with a homemade car, or skate (do it at night, otherwise you might
get rammed by a car)
The more things you do, the more you'll feel the fabric of liberty
taking over, and than you'll be free from this called "depression".
Just don't think so much. When I'm down I look at pictures of kitties. Always works.
I had this happen to me just the other night where I thought this, and I still kinda do. Now I want to change something, do something with my life, not just work. The reason we work is so we can give our kids a good life and good education, and we do that so they can do the same for their kids. It seems like just a big cycle, and kinda boring to me.
get a hobby
We live on this small planet in the incredibly vast cosmos. Why?
[B]Because we can[/B]. Live your life as you see fit, you probably only have one.
You need to channel that negative energy into a positive output. I used to be [B]EXACTLY[/B] like you, now I'm (almost) normal.
INVENT A ROBOTIC EXOSKELETON
do it
[QUOTE=CrazyMoron;24100120]Your friends push for you to drink or have sex with the hottest girl in the class.[/QUOTE]
so you'd rather not?
maybe losing your virginity will solve this problem
[QUOTE=CrazyMoron;24100120]words.[/QUOTE]
Welcome to being a teenager, this lasts for a little while, you form your own beliefs and ideas and morals and then you begin to look up and decide you do what you see fit for your own reasons and life goes on for a brief instant before death rears his fuck ugly visage.
Then there's a boss fight involving the BFG 9000 and then the tutorials over and you're let loose on mars as an endolithic bacteria.
Such is life.
Everyone feels like that at some time or another. Just wait, it'll be like a toothache: you feel it for a while, but soon it will go away.
[quote]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.[/quote]
What do you think you'll be doing the whole time this is going on? You don't work so you can get to the shitty retirement at the end, you work to support yourself while you live. Life isn't a journey to a few post-retirement years, it's a continual occurance. You [i]live[/i] in all this time; while you're at college you have a girlfriend and when you're out working you're also hanging out with your pals after work and at the weekend. When you start your business you also marry a girl and you raise a family while counting your profits. You get to play with your grandkids during your retirement.
The whole point of existentialism is that things are fundamentally meaningless but we [i]give[/i] them meaning.
"Your parents get to mold you into their vision of who they want you to be." No, they help you become the best you can be. Don't want to be that? Move to Venice and learn Italian.
" Your friends push for you to drink or have sex with the hottest girl in the class." Drinking is fun, but if it's not your thing then do something else! Don't want to screw the hottest girl in the class? Hook up with an ugly chick who'll really appreciate it.
I don't care about your childhood and "other problems" - they're just excuses. Get out there and [highlight]LIVE[/highlight]
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;24100241]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.[/QUOTE]
Wow I never thought of that... thanks now im depressed
OP, you need to stop getting sad and get happy. If you can't get happy, then angry is a much easier segway. get really serious about politics and religion and get into scuffles over it. That's the way to go
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what you're experiencing is more a sense of nihilism than existentialism really as well
17 was the age i found a reason to live, wait one more year
I might be young but I can tell you I think that finding your perfect job and finding your perfect woman are the perfect solution to your post-school crisis. (My own term, like a midlife crisis :D) I used to feel much like you, but I met my girlfriend and just the feeling of being in love with someone that feels the same is so uplifting, you can't help but grin when you think about it :)
[QUOTE=Jon27;24118519]I might be young but I can tell you I think that finding your perfect job and finding your perfect woman are the perfect solution to your post-school crisis. (My own term, like a midlife crisis :D) I used to feel much like you, but I met my girlfriend and just the feeling of being in love with someone that feels the same is so uplifting, you can't help but grin when you think about it :)[/QUOTE]
Don't need a job to get a good girlfriend, his whole point is its mostly futile to do all that shit.
[QUOTE=bravehat;24118771]Don't need a job to get a good girlfriend, his whole point is its mostly futile to do all that shit.[/QUOTE]
If he thinks romance and work based success is futile, then perhaps he should try a more palpable sense of achievement e.g. working with AIDS orphans in Africa, looking after special needs people etc
I ddin't mean romance, just the job and shit.
At the end of the day most jobs are interchangeable, and unimpressive.
And at the end of the day everything is futile, that's why he needs to find his own reason for doing things.
And yeah the latter sort of things are something OP will end up considering.
I suggest you read [i]The Stranger[/i] by Albert Camus. It's kinda cool.
Newsflash, mate: When you turn 18, you are free to do whatever the fuck you want! Wanna head over to Africa with the PeaceCorps and feed starving children? Want to enlist in the military and possibly see the world? Wanna teach English to Japanese/Chinese/whateverthefuck students? Your opportunities, no matter WHO you are, are abso-fucking-lutely endless!
I mean, think about it. You wanna get good at something, maybe make some money from the talent? Practice, earn some cash on the side, and by the time you're good at it, there'll probably be an opportunity to do it professionally. You have NO idea how many incredible jobs there are out there, too!
Congrats you've become self aware.
Now, instead of pissing and moaning because you're suddenly melancholy, have a fucking reality check and realize that everyone suffers the same thing. Don't over analyze yourself, if you do you'll lose sight of how similar you and your struggles are to everyone you know and don't know. Mainly because they share the same struggles.
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get out there. You don't have to live a consumer based lifestyle if you find it hard to condone.
You are a teenager everyone goes through this one way or another. Nut up or shut up.
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;24100241]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.[/QUOTE]
Man this really puts life in perspective for me. I am so used to my routine, I play the computer a lot, and I keep telling myself I will change next week. None of that will change unless I do one thing out of the ordinary, but I can't bring myself to.
For instance I have 2 classes, the last 2 of the day, in which there are at least 4 or 5 hot/cute girls I would love to talk to. I am not ugly , and I could lose some weight but I am not obese by any means, but I can't get enough confidence to talk to them. This is the second week of school for me, and I feel if I don't start talking to them soon, I will become rooted down like this for the rest of this year, and I will be afraid of them thinking I am weird and quiet.
Read the book of Ecclesiastes. Even if you aren't Jewish/Christian, it still puts things in an interesting perspective.
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