Meaningless

[Lord Isscarus]

It's depressing how short and pointless life is, how everything could go wrong, how your dreams could never come true,how you may lose your closest friends when you least expect it, how everyone could turn on you anytime, how all your favorite TV shows suddenly get bored or come to an end, when your family goes through chaos and being broke and depressed, how you may never find a soul mate, how you could die tomorrow or anytime today, how the end of this world could come at any time, how there could be tons of extraterrestrial races which make Humans, look weak, pointless, worthless, meaningless, useless, it's just terrible how boring, dull, depressing and pointless life can be.


Im not getting bullied or put down or anything, it's just when you think about it, life is meaningless, there's no reason why were here, why would Humans be born if there are alien races superior than us in every single way, what purpose do Humans serve, what makes us special at all? Nothing does.


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Life is stupid, life is unfair, life is meaningless, life is dull, and there's nothing I could do about it.


Think about it, how small and worthless we are, how pointless life is,  sorry for such a depressing post, but, we are useless.


Post Merge: April 17, 2017, 11:38:52 PM
I go through depression due to my imagination, I'm much more deep than your average 14 year old, I REALLY appreciate think about everything, which lead me to making this post, because everything I'm saying is true.

[Albie]

If you go through life only looking for the pain, you will find the pain.  Life is pointless.  So since it is, you may as well enjoy it.  Make friends with folks with equally pointless lives and do not worry about how it will end.  Do not look for what you do not have and instead look for what you do have.

[Alyzro]

Life is only as pointless as you make it. Set goals, find passions, and work for them! I understand how you feel, but life is a lot more than you seem to see it as right now. Sure you could lose even your best friend at random (actually happened to me), but what you don't see is that there are plenty of new people to talk to as well around the corner. Sure your dreams might not come true, but what happens when they do? Sometimes it's just better to be able to have something, no matter how unrealistic, to look forward to and daydream about. And finally, sure the world could end at anytime. It could've ended before I actually posted this, but I'm writing it nonetheless, something like that is just too big to have to bother worrying about constantly, not like anyone can do anything about it anyways.

Plus! I'm sure someone starving wouldn't think someone who fed them is useless. Someone going through mental trouble wouldn't think a comforter useless. There's plenty of use to us. Just have to find something you find meaningful to do. While what you said may seem true to you at the moment, but I can't help but feel that you'll change your mind 

[Brigand]

We live just to survive and make sure that our species won't go extinct. That's pretty much the only point of life on Earth. Fortunately we're smarter than other animals, so you can set your own goals if you want to.

If you want something then go ahead and try to achieve it. Having a limited time should motivate people to live their life to the fullest instead of making it more shitty and depressing.

"why would Humans be born if there are alien races superior than us in every single way"
They probably didn't immediately evolve from a single cell into galactic empire master race, you know. At some point they were like us, if such races even exist. And they probably have problems like "oh shit, I can leave my alien house and get run over by space bus, it's all **censor** pointless. My alien girlfriend broke up with me and my alien parents died of space cancer".

[Salakar Crocoli]

We aren't useless. People can do amazing things. What we do in our lives will have a huge impact on humans in the future and even if we do die out, our technology will still be around to confuse aliens. or the next great species, kind of like how modern people how the pyramids were built.

[Michen_S]

To be honest, I don't think life is meaningless. We have the option to make the most out of the life we have. The things you can do in this life can have a bigger effect on others than you'd think, even if you don't see it yourself. Your actions can inspire people, make people happy, help people or touch people in an other way. And sure, bad things do happen. It's part of life, and sometimes bad things can make good times seem all the more better. Stay strong.

[anoni]

  I believe life is inherently meaningless (as you say), and that while people can find meaning within their own lives (meaning is relative after all) for those who cannot find meaning life still becomes meaningless, I am one of those people who does not really have meaning in their life, but I'm not depressed over it. I guess for me, there's a curiosity and a biological urge, to see life through. Like in a way the vastness of the cosmos is more humbling, rather than daunting.

  If we discovered something that absolutely meant humans are special, what would that mean? What would that change? Sure you could start feeling good about yourself saying "yeah, I am special in this universe", but nothing else would change, you'd still do everything you need to do. We ask these questions "What is our use, what is our meaning?" but we are asking this to something that is unconscious, might as well go to your garden and ask a rock what it thinks of you. And hey, if it turned out the rock thought you were a pretty cool guy, would that change anything? Would it mean something to think that all the rocks you go by think and think you're cool? Would that make you feel better, and if so why? Whether a rock thinks you're good, bad, or doesn't think at all, doesn't change the fact that the rock is a rock, it has no meaningful way to let it know what it thinks of you, it's just a rock.

  Same with the universe, are you useful to the universe? Why does it matter? It's like asking are you useful to this rock, it makes no difference whether you are or not, and quite frankly it doesn't really make sense! Does life have meaning to the universe? Does life have meaning to the rocks in the garden, it's just a silly thing to think and care about when you really think about it. The universe isn't consciousness, as far as we know, but do you know what is conscious? Life.

  So you ask are you meaningless? To the universe, you are, to the rocks, you are, but to your friends? To your family? To your employer or employees? You are useful to them. They're conscious, they can actual comprehend your use, they can actually comprehend your meaning, AND they can communicate that comprehension. If you walked into a garden of thinking rocks and they all hated you or loved you, it would make no difference, but if you walked into a garden of thinking humans and they hated you or loved you, suddenly the difference is tangible and interesting. See you keep trying to wonder what we are in the universe, but what's important is what we are to other humans.

  Life is important to life, you have use to life, that's your purpose according to life. You cheer up your friends, to your friends that is your purpose, you work a job, to society that is your purpose, you do whatever it is you do and it's probable that someone appreciates it, and to them, that is your purpose.

  You have no inherent meaning, but other life forms can give you meaning to them, and really that's the only meaning that is tangible.