When Life is Meaningless (And Why We Feel Worthless)
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Published 2020-09-17
In times of religious decline, mankind is faced with the possibility that its existence is inherently meaningless. For many, this is frightening. The idea that our lives don’t matter, can be difficult to accept.
To give our lives at least some significance, even if it’s just on a terrestrial level, we started to create our own meaning. So, as the humans we are, we began to define what it means to live a meaningful life. What’s worth living for, and what isn’t? What are the requirements?
When we have decided what a meaningful life entails, we continue grasping for it in an almost pathological manner. Because if we fail to give our lives meaning, our lives truly don’t matter.
As a consequence, many people feel that their lives are worthless. They wake up, eat, engage in their daily activities, eat, go to sleep, repeat, repeat, and repeat, as opposed to those ‘lucky few’ who have found meaning in their lives, albeit because of raising children, a so-called ‘meaningful’ job, and other activities that make their existence on this desolate tiny dot surrounded by a suffocating blackness, a bit more bearable.
This video explores why we feel worthless, and the beauty and ugliness of a meaningless life (inspired by philosopher Albert Camus).
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All Comments (21)
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Funny, when I was a kid, I was happy seemingly without ascribing life any meaning at all. Kool Aid and popcorn had meaning. They were good to drink and eat.
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i genuinely cant understand why we do this everyday, would rather unalive myself
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Acceptance is not the hard part for me The hard part is to suffer here every day
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“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” ― Alan Watts, 1915-1973.
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
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Watching this I completely feel empty and unmotivated to even do simple activities at home
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Happiness is a direction, not a place. - Sydney J. Harris
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This video is too positive for where I'm at right now.
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8:25 "Meaning is not to found elsewhere, than in our own imagination" I really like that bit, it seems that every opinion we hold is just our projection, and not reality
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>Life has no meaning. >Has children to give life meaning. >Children's life has no meaning. >Surprisedpikachuface.jpeg
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We will all be forgotten one day
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"Optimistic Nihilism: You only get one shot at life, which is scary, but it also sets you free. If the universe ends in heat death, every humiliation you suffer in your life will be forgotten. Every mistake you made will not matter in the end. Every bad thing you did will be voided. If our life is all we get to experience, then it's the only thing that matters. If the universe has no principles, the only principles relevant are the ones we decide on. If the universe has no purpose, then we get to dictate what its purpose is. ... We are truly free in a universe-sized playground, so we might as well aim to be happy and to build some kind of utopia in the stars." - Kurzgesagt
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“The meaning of life, is to find meaning in life”
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"To live is to suffer,To survive is to find some meaning in the suffering"
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ― Albert Camus👍
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I’m 40, married and have a child, but it doesn’t seem to change the fact that life is simply meaningless in the end. Dreading everyday but pushing on for the sake of my child. Just hoping life will be kind and work out somehow for everyone here, for as long as we are still here in this world…
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The fact that most of us must work most of our time to survive has the greatest impact on our lives
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I think the meaning of life embodies every single good deed. It's not about having a job, family...etc. it's just about being positive to your and your surroundings. What makes lose our meaning of life is usually caused by bullying, undergoing too much pressure...etc. That's why people should be tactful, tolerate and respect each other.
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I used to fear and feel sad about not having meaning in life because my upbringing is a very religious one so entertaining the idea of not having meaning is unimaginable. Now, I am a non believer and when I accepted that life is meaningless, for some reason it liberated me so much. I don't mind living a meaningless life at all and not achieving a sort of great contribution. I found the simple things of life really engaging. Now when I do things (like simple activities as eating and cleaning) I feel so present.
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I am too early for something that I don't want to feel.
