Have you ever had an existential crisis?

[shecameforcwc]

Lately I've been feeling like nothing matters, that there's not a chance in hell to even make a difference or get remembered. And even if we do happen to get remembered in 100 years everyone will forget about you and stop visiting your grave. Has anyone else felt like this ?

 

[Brit Crust]

Yes. I've been feeling like that for over a year now.

 

[Some JERK]

I'll go you one better... Eventually the sun's hydrogen fuel will be depleted and it will turn into a red giant that incinerates the Earth. Aside from some really faint stray radio signals and some minuscule pieces of space-junk, it will be like none of us ever existed at all. All the fine deeds and famous doings won't mean shit. In the long run, nobody will be remembered for anything.

Now go do something fun and stop worrying about shit that doesn't matter.

 

[DuskEngine]

lol who cares

 

[Todesfurcht]

When it happens to me it's just an extended panic attack, I shake and look around, too aware of my own existence.

Fucking awful. It's like being trapped.

 

[AnOminous]

Lately I've been feeling like nothing matters, that there's not a chance in hell to even make a difference or get remembered. And even if we do happen to get remembered in 100 years everyone will forget about you and stop visiting your grave. Has anyone else felt like this ?

Who doesn't?

Kys fag.

 

[Daughter of Cernunnos]

Lately I've been feeling like nothing matters, that there's not a chance in hell to even make a difference or get remembered. And even if we do happen to get remembered in 100 years everyone will forget about you and stop visiting your grave. Has anyone else felt like this ?

Maybe document yourself here https://chronicleoflife.com/ and here https://www.eter9.com/. Learn about the death positive movement and check out the Ask A Mortician channel. Learn about religious, poetic and philosophical views on this, even less common ones like Shinto, Hindu, polytheist etc. Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles explore this issue a lot. The second book in the series called The Vampire Lestat has this as a central theme and you might like that if you're at a time in your life where this a problem for you. Just remember these feelings will usually pass but if they are chronic it could mean mental illness, in which you should seek professional care.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

When people voice such thoughts I usually ask them if they know where the graves of their great-great grandparents are or if they even know their names. (Usually the answer is no on both counts unless they are genealogists).

Julius Caesar's name is still famous and known throughout the ages and world. What fucking good does that do him? None, he's dead, it's the same for him as if his name was forgotten the moment after Brutus put the knife in. On the other hand Caesar certainly packed a hell of lot into the years he had on earth, that's what was important - not the thousands of years of fame after death.

You're stewing on things that you can't change, it's the world you were born into, the human condition if you will. You only get so much time so don't waste it worrying about the things you have no control over and have no ability to change. You get one brief window of consciousness so make the fucking most of it. Let existential dread motivate you, not rob you of the time you have.

 

[Hyperion]

Just remember dude that no matter how pointless it may seem or how bleak that people really do care about you and someday they'll all die and be forgotten and so will you and this really is all pointless

 

[AnOminous]

When people voice such thoughts I usually ask them if they know where the graves of their great-great grandparents are or if they even know their names. (Usually the answer is no on both counts unless they are genealogists).

My great-great-great grandparents all had really awesome names.

Now they're dead and nobody remembers them.

Thanks Obama!

 

[ASoulMan]

Why wouldn't you have an existential crisis?

Everybody suffers from one at some point in their lives, whether you admit to it or not.

 

[Cheeseburger Picnic]

Just drink like everybody else does jfc

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Doubting your purpose and potential is something we all face at some point in our lives.

It's a part of what makes us human. Not only that, but it comes natural with existence.

 

[Joan Nyan]

I've never thought anything matters or cared if I'm remembered, who cares?

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

Anyone older than the age of 23 who has a functioning brain has gone through this. I certainly have (even though I'm not sure I have a functional brain).

Honestly I feel like since I went through that phase, I never really got over it all the way. I'm much less interested in doing things generally speaking now than I was 6-7 years ago. I am usually OK with sitting inside all day fucking around wasting time.

I should probably get over it and do fun shit.

 

[The Lizard Queen]

There's a very simple cure for this kind of thing...
Get out of the basement and go do something.

 

[Null]

 

[cypocryphy]

Lately I've been feeling like nothing matters, that there's not a chance in hell to even make a difference or get remembered. And even if we do happen to get remembered in 100 years everyone will forget about you and stop visiting your grave. Has anyone else felt like this ?

You can be someone here on the kiwi farms.

 

[drain]

Lately I've been feeling like nothing matters, that there's not a chance in hell to even make a difference or get remembered. And even if we do happen to get remembered in 100 years everyone will forget about you and stop visiting your grave. Has anyone else felt like this ?

I used to think like that. So more recently, I came with this belief: nothing really matters, we will all die one day. The things we do, like study, work, find a partner, have kids, watch tv, read a book, etc... are all activities we do while waiting for the inevitable death. All we do is simply passtime. That's why we should do/live the best we can an do what we want, because in the end, nothing really matters, and as the cool kids says these days, you only live once.

 

[Jason Genova]

Here's my best answer for this shit.

Meaning, purpose, and value are not things that exist outside of consciousness. Saying that life is meaningless is just as ridiculous as saying life is painless. meaning can not be struck with a hammer or placed on a scale and measured, feelings of meaning, purpose, and value are our reactions to things.

It's like how if you put your hand in a bucket of hot water and felt pain, there's no pain in the water, the pain is your reaction to the water.

You say that you feel like nothing matters, well that's really up to you. Like I described there's no scale to measure how much something matters. YOU decide how much things matter. YOU decide what has meaning, purpose, value, etc.

The easiest way to get past these feeling is to realize that they are counter-productive to success. Are there things that you would like to get done with your very short life? Or are you content to LDAR?

If you want to get things done these thoughts are intrusive and distracting at best.