Hey guys, i seriously don’t think that i’m the only one told absolute crap about how life is like meaningful and everything. But do you know what, i wake up every day with the same feeling that life is shit whichever way you look at it. I used to think life was great until i found out that you can never judge a book by its cover (i.e you can never ever really know a person, even if that person happened to be your friend since childhood). I think life is only just a sensual thing. Sometimes you are sad, sometimes you’re happy. But it seems in life everything changes. Nothing stays the same. However much you want it to. Why do you go to school, college, uni? Well, to get a job i guess, and then get money, and then be able to buy a huge house, have a family and thats it. DEAD. All this work, all this painstaking work everyday just to be able to survive. Why bother even trying to survive, when in the end, it comes down to nothin.
Thats the reason why life is so contradictory, it’s an eternal paradox. Why wake up and do everything that u do in life when in the end, you wont even remember any of it? But the end is like the beginning, before you were born, there was ‘oblivion’ in the end, there will be ‘oblivion’.
But as i’ve asked somebody before, if u could stand in some mode other than existence and contemplate whether or not u live, what would u say? I would choose to live, and i’m asmming you would to. It’s all that there is, the ‘you’ that is inside your body is all there there is for you to ever experiance, ‘you’ and everything else that is around u.
What other choices do you have? But as we know, in the end, all this will never have even happened.
Life is pointless. You live… you die. When you die you are dead. So really, no matter what you do, when you die you are dead… meaning anything you do will be forgotten, if not by others by yourself. What does memories of you matter when you are dead? Some people would like to be remembered when they die, others realise when they die they wont care.
Why live though? Does it not seem like a pointless waste of time? Yes. But hey… You’ve been given the gift, why not use it! Make the most of it. Not that any mistakes matter really, as when you’re dead, you wont be able to care!
Live life, make of it what you can. You’ll only get one chance
From the first bit, it sounds like this post was inspired by some sort of “betrayal”, am I close to the mark? You sound very hurt in your writing, and I’m glad that you were able to express yourself, but some times we need more than just self expression to get through our pain.
You say, “I think life is only just a sensual thing.” well that seems like the most realistic definition of why a human should live that anyone has come up with. As humans we have the ability to not only enjoy, but revel in the sensations we experience, an ability other living things don’t appear to have, so do it. Revel and enjoy.
Why were you born? For your parents own pleasure, or physiological drive/need to procreate and rais children? So why should you live? Because you were born. Or kill yourself, it doesn’t really matter eather way.
contact your pineal gland for further information.
so here’s my synopsis of your current situation.
you float from one island of happiness to another drowning in a sea of depression in between. You think that (correctly) nothing stays the same, in life their are no absolutes. and you are beginning to question (again correctly) what the purpose of money is. My suggestion? don’t get on the bus to craving, wait at the bus stop for nirvana.
or you can catch the craving bus experience life, and deal with all the strenous stressful emotions that go along with life.
the choice is up to you.
Why would you choose to complain about being alive? Accept the gift of existence and sentience and make the best of it you can. Your assumption that death is oblivion isn’t “knowable”. It just might be that you have inumerable lives ahead of you, and that how you perform in this life may determine the quality of the next. Of course there’s no way to know, so all of this is BS. Right?
JT
I was not concious of ‘I’ until i took on this body form, so what makes u think i’ll be concious without next time around?
I was not concious of ‘I’ until i took on this body form, so what makes u think i’ll be concious without it next time around?
Rami,
I have no idea nor any way of knowing whether you will come back at all, or if you do, whether sentience will be one of the gifts you receive.
That’s the point.
Make it up as you go along, and make it as good as you are capable.
JT