One: Maybe you’re depressed
Two: Maybe you’re tricked by capitalism and religion into believing everything is special and needs a grand purpose
Three: We desperately need things on earth right now, dog shelters are overrun, solar panels need to be built and sold, bus lanes needs to be put in roads
Four: Just because it all ultimately means nothing, empires rise and fall, some remembered some forgotten, doesn’t mean nothing matters to someone else, I still remember 4th grade friendships and the things they taught me. Even if I never see them again. They still matter.
Having a grounded big-picture perspective and being depressed can be really hard to tell apart
This looks so familiar…
Is this the subway station in PowerWasher Simulator (aka the game that made me get diagnosed with ADHD)?
It might be the tunnel from Exit 8
Oh yeah? I’ll start my own life. With Blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget about the life.
This image just reminds me of the videogame “pools”
You’re not only allowed to make your own meaning, there is no other choice.
You dropped this, fam.
Nah, never forget, Sisyphus had meaning in his life, he helped a kidnapped daughter, he secured an ever lasting spring of water for a village… the gods punished him because he kept tricking them, skirted their rules and their punishments, helping himself and other people, masses of normal people.
He chose to do those things, so… you could say he created his own meaning in the midst of an inherently absurd and meaningless universe? 😉
Yep, that’s the crime, he rejected their bullshit systems, and they can’t have their own illusion destroyed - that they’re inbred irrational, jealous, bottomless pits of power hungry idiots that serve no purpose and shouldn’t be worshipped, but removed from power. he threatened to reveal their illusion and to show people they could make big differences and change the system without the powers of the Gods, so they imprisoned him with meaningless slave labor.
Almost like it’s a metaphor for the endless human condition we find ourselves in with our own “gods”, the men who try to control the world with power, riches, irrational rules and meaningless slave labor.
Dropped it… not againn.
On the plus side, you only have to keep busy until the wonderful day it all finally ends. sob
Turns out getting your life together doesn’t really ease the constantly simmering existential dread.
At least I know that now.
Then don’t.
Sit in it, ask it questions, find out what it’s all about.
9 times out of 10, it’s just your inner child who’s been neglected and misunderstood. Once you take the time to give love to your inner less developed psyche, you’ll not need to find escapism.
Because there will be no pain to escape from.
Love yourself, you deserve it.
And just to get you started… Let me open the door for you:
The emptiness underneath? Like the subway tunnels?
That tracks
Weltschmerz
Touch the emptiness
