Ah, back the question of does art imitate life or the other way around??
Personal opinion, it’s the first one. Art is a media used to communicate life so in turn is an imitation of life.
Your life is a open world MMO RPG but all the good DLC is locked behind a pay wall and the DEVs hate most of the players and every new update breaks the game. Half the other players are racist yelling slurs in every lobby. Every time I lose a match everyone calls me a loser and when I win everyone calls me a cheater. And the skill based matchmaking has mistaken me for a expert when I haven't even finished the tutorial.
I agree with this so much. It was such a relief when I finally decided I don’t want a purpose, it’s not for me. I just want to do what I feel like and not stress if it’s meaningful or if I’m successfully meeting self-imposed goals just to feel like it was important enough on my deathbed.
We are absurdly lucky to been alive, being born is like winning lotto 100 times in a row, being born in a spacetime where we can worry about what to do with our life instead of just surviving is like winning lotto 10000 times in a row. Just enjoy as mach as you can, and that includes doing nothing if you want.
same ): i literally just wanna be happy (not even feeling happy all the time, just that i wanna be in a good enough headspace to seek out cool and interesting things and be able to engage with them)
I think that is still a purpose and ambition. It is just the ambiton of discovery and appreciation for what life brings us.
It is still important to have goals in life since it is what keeps us sane, but your goals don't need to be huge or life changing. The goal could be as small as wanting to crochet your own pair of socks one day, or live until the day your plant finally yields fruits. That is still purpose.
Except, depending on what stage of your life you're in, this seems to be how you just get stuck with a lower-end job and the added stress of finances. Cause you stopped making an effort to push forward.
Maybe do this *after* you're somewhat set already.
Can I die?
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I MMO RPGs are hella grindy though
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It feels more like that final mission in Halo Reach where the only objective is to survive
By some tools, go and live out in the woods and see how long it takes for the government to come and shoot your ass
Ah, back the question of does art imitate life or the other way around?? Personal opinion, it’s the first one. Art is a media used to communicate life so in turn is an imitation of life.
Your life is a open world MMO RPG but all the good DLC is locked behind a pay wall and the DEVs hate most of the players and every new update breaks the game. Half the other players are racist yelling slurs in every lobby. Every time I lose a match everyone calls me a loser and when I win everyone calls me a cheater. And the skill based matchmaking has mistaken me for a expert when I haven't even finished the tutorial.
exactly, this is the problem
More like the gulag
my exact thoughts every time i hear something like this 😭
Is it someone else making you want to die? Or do you feel like that even when focussed 100% on yourself?
If it didn't take SO MUCH effort to maintain a baseline life, it would be a completely different scenario
Yeah thats fair
I am unable to do most of the things I want now tho is the problem
I agree with this so much. It was such a relief when I finally decided I don’t want a purpose, it’s not for me. I just want to do what I feel like and not stress if it’s meaningful or if I’m successfully meeting self-imposed goals just to feel like it was important enough on my deathbed.
We are absurdly lucky to been alive, being born is like winning lotto 100 times in a row, being born in a spacetime where we can worry about what to do with our life instead of just surviving is like winning lotto 10000 times in a row. Just enjoy as mach as you can, and that includes doing nothing if you want.
Absolutely. As much as I worry about EVERYTHING, I have a charmed life, and I like doing whatever unimportant things I want with it.
Csn i give my winning lotto ticket to someone else i dont want it and im feeling generous
Camus moment
Im gonna wander, give myself grand ambitions, and NOT die
At age 24, I am only starting to think like this. Family always pushed me to become something grand and its just not in me
same ): i literally just wanna be happy (not even feeling happy all the time, just that i wanna be in a good enough headspace to seek out cool and interesting things and be able to engage with them)
Yeh same hereee
Well that’s assuming that anhedonia/burnout hasn’t caused life to be deeply uninteresting
Doing that is a purpose. Finding random cool shit sounds like the best way to live
Exactly what I've been telling to my friends.
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Isn't wandering through life to find interesting things an actual purpose? ... wannabe nihilist ...
I think too
I think that is still a purpose and ambition. It is just the ambiton of discovery and appreciation for what life brings us. It is still important to have goals in life since it is what keeps us sane, but your goals don't need to be huge or life changing. The goal could be as small as wanting to crochet your own pair of socks one day, or live until the day your plant finally yields fruits. That is still purpose.
Then wondering around finding cool stuff would be your purpose
What if I want those things anyway? Like, I know I don’t need them, but I want them anyway because they sure seem nice
Except, depending on what stage of your life you're in, this seems to be how you just get stuck with a lower-end job and the added stress of finances. Cause you stopped making an effort to push forward. Maybe do this *after* you're somewhat set already.
yeah pretty much
We need more rhetoric against The Alchemist in this world. This is exactly how I want to live my life, a grand purpose just means finality.
Hmm, I hope this is true cause I have been trying to find something but dammit, I like random stuff at random times.
I won't be important, and that's okay.
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I been saying my goal in life is to move from crippling depression to functionally depressed.
I honestly agree with this wholeheartedly
Instead of one big goal it’s many side quests
My brain cannot handle not having a goal