I find the idea of not expecting too much of oneself can be extremely liberating. Just let go of the stress, relax and enjoy life.
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I find the idea of not expecting too much of oneself can be extremely liberating. Just let go of the stress, relax and enjoy life.
What do you do about people who obligate you otherwise though?
I seem to find myself under managers like this all the time for example—unending, "I want you to rise up to the occasion"-types. Largely because they just yes-man whatever their bosses ask for without further consideration.
Oh shit I haven’t seen [10] guy in like 10 years haha.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. — Carl Sagan
Friend, I hope you can continue enjoying life and it isn't past tense only. If you're unsure, please reach out and find the help you need 💙
As for your sentiment, I feel the same, cosmic dust but okay with that thought; enjoy life as it is, unworried about what is or is not after.
All good, it is not past tense. Just felt joy about that thought and felt that should share somewhere.
Yea, that "enjoyed" had me till reading this.
Remember, there is: Life is meaningless and nobody cares :(
And
Life is meaningless and nobody cares :)
I'm currently on the :(
I wish everyone a great day, even though I'm in a dark place at the moment. Please hug someone for me.
I've had some dark times. Especially when I lost my religion.
Existential crisis is depression's brother. They often travel together.
Figured out that my purpose is taking care of my people.
My people are my immediate family, friends, people in our small alternative subcommunity, pets. It's sort of like a tribe and is small enough I can wrap my head around it instead of the world and society at large. It appeals to the pagan inside my inner atheist.
Find someone or something external to yourself to care about that you can meaningfully help and take care of. I'll give my wife a hug for you.
why the need to grandiosity?
just dust
nothing cosmic about it. And not dust at all, just a human typing on a screen. There's a purity to dust that we shouldn't reclaim. Is the moon full tonight?
Everything heavier than lithium was created either in the heart of a star over it's lifetime, or during its death in a supernova. We really are cosmic dust, or as Carl Segan called it, "Star Stuff".
Tonight the moon is gorgeously gibbous!
Nope, but tomorrow there's a lunar eclipse!
I felt that a lot when i was on antidepressants - like a tiny ant on a little trail just doing my thing until I'm done, then poof. I like thinking that in 120 years the whole earth will have entirely different people. We're just dusty blips.
The JAMES song Walk Like You always makes it into my heart when I think about this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCK4Rul948I
You know more than you think you know
This universe is in your eyes
Inside the galaxies collide
They have a few songs where they do a great job of painting how small we are and yet we are made of the greatest things the universe has every made.... We are.
But I can talk....
Yup. We are just some timespace consisting of some miles and some decades. Ive had my go and if there is more good but if there is not it was still good.
I remember when I realized that, I stopped taking everything literally.
I don’t think is negative, I think knowing your place on the universe adds perspective to everyday “problems”
We all are dude. It's just most people are afraid of their own irrelevance.
I feel that. For me it's more of the more I believe I'm not in this world, not anchored to it. More of thoughts I'm just in a simulation. The better my mental health is. The grounding techniques people use to center them selfs into reality cause me extremely bad panic Attacks. I have to believe this isn't real or I can't handle life mentally.
So yes nothing matters where all just space dust floating around, life's meaningless and pointless. So might as well live it up and make the most out of it.
I think our experiences of life are like windows from which the void reaches out and touches reality.
"we're only matter in our lifetime. We won't matter once we cease to exist."
Welcome to the existentialist crew! It's a great and humbling place to be.