Does anyone feel this powerful feeling and is it selfish to love life?

Does anyone sometimes feel a very deep sense of love and grief and devastation and beauty for fleeting and living life and it is so powerful and neutralising and it manifests physically and it makes you submit to everything bad and good in the world, its the closest thing to religious experiences ive ever had. And you dont even care anymore but you do care because in turn of feeling this amazing feeling i wonder how much of a fool I must sound to those that have suffered and are suffering. Im not a total ignorant bastard screaming “look at the moon bruh” but essentially I am lol. I have two questions.

  1. Does anyone else experience this feeling?

i have always wanted to seek people that feel this but of course i sound like a corny mania maniac whenever i try to explain lol

  1. Is ‘loving life’ selfish, or rather ignorant to those suffering? Or is it selfish/ignorant without action towards alleviating suffering? (However that may be)

In my opinion it is just logically yes. I’m not guilty and i blame no one, but maybe it is our responsibility, or maybe those that feel this way

srry this was quickly typed

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Yes.

No.

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  1. How would you personally describe this feeling, Is it really powerful for you too? What IS this state?
  2. Why is it not selfish?

It is intrinsically selfish akin to how the “powerful…amazing…religious experience” feeling coveted by a heroin addict is intrinsically selfish.

I have a strange feeling too. I recently watched a film by Andrei Tarkovsky, and his films touch on this “failure yet transcendence” of love. Failure in the sense that we never fully process, express and understand our feelings, yet transcendence in the way that love still exists. It persists beyond death, reality, and understanding. Just amongst the whispers of time that continues to flow. Sorry I don’t know it’s a bit abstract.

Then i suppose ‘loving life whilst suffering inflicts people’ would be compared to doing an 8 ball in front of someone in withdrawal

That is so profound, what film was it? No need to say sorry, i understand you im pretty sure. True Love in all its forms is such innocence..How did this feeling feel?

As long as you don’t try to force it on anyone else then who cares what you feel?

(Said this in a diff therad but) To give more context i ask if you would eat infront of someone starving?You would have no urge to help them whatsoever naturally? And you would not want to be fed, if you were starving?

If I stood on my high pillar of love and screamed “guys, this life is beautiful im transcending”, the fact is that not everyone feels this way, or life has given them more than enough grief they can handle. Maybe they’ll say “what about the kids sold off to slavery” And their perspective is… CORRECT! Its no more correct nor wrong than mine. So this is a dispute. The only way to solve said dispute is to eliminate or help eliminate suffering.

You’ve completely missed the point. Evidently I needed to add a “full stop” at the end of my previous post. The key phrase being “intrinsically selfish”. Have a think on it.

I don’t know anymore, I think I’ve gotten used to it. But at the start it was just clarity, very unexpected. I didn’t know what to do with it, so I just wrote, and wrote, and wrote.

I realised, that as long as I can retain that clarity, then I really have everything I need, no matter what happens.

Because I’m using it for non-selfish things.

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Who are you talking to? If it’s me then what does any of that have to do with what I said?

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WeSee i did get your point but i think your metaphor was a bit off centre. the one i replied with, i think is what im trying to ask/point out. Yes that love can lead to inner ‘harm’ but i am wondering about outer.

Victor, Yes, my reply was the one about starving people. It relates because you ask: who would care what i think? I say many do, Those starving care about those with food, or those who possess the power to feed. The same can be said for those suffering, and those who see love through suffering. My bad though, that reply does seem to have a tone, i didnt mean it whatsoever

Your OP was about how much YOU enjoy life and whether or not that was selfish. Save your virtue-signalling for the gullible morons who fall for that garbage.

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Ummm victor honey, The question in the damn title is “is it selfish to love life” Are u alright ? xx

And in the text i literally ask that too…

And I answered it. Then you started virtue-signalling about the obligatory ‘starving people’. Do you actually believe you make sense? I’m sorry for you then. Perhaps a different med would help.

Sweetheart its called a metaphor, I even pointed out it was a metaphor. Because starving is a pretty good example of ‘those that suffer’ dont ya think..? Emo shit