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[@zakariaabdimohamed7063]

No thanks.

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[@rilke3266]

“I don’t want to live the wrong life and die” is my biggest existential concern.

[@arjun7041]

You don’t have enough free will to do so, don’t worry about it

[@GentleJungle]

Exactly. but that IS wrong? I think ending suffering and seeking beauty and knowledge is good... but what about all this purpose and meaning? Such man made ideas! I'm curious if maybe you mean moral? Or maybe you believe you have a destiny and not following is wrong? I don't mean to assume. I'm genuinely interested!

[@GentleJungle]

​@@arjun7041 lol. good point.

[@nickie2483]

there is ‘no wrong life’ only a life and the choices you make

[@ginandromeda1618]

@@GentleJungle I think OP means the latter, choosing the wrong destiny or path that they may regret in the end

[@crumblenut4304]

An existential crisis is really just the ego becoming aware that it’s living in a facade and it’s beginning to freak the fuck out

[@peterkent6250]

sort of, its kind of 2 fold. Ones self not being able to handle their own existence not existing but i would argue its ego also

[@1SmokedTurkey1]

The ego IS the facade. That's what it means to get over oneself. The self is a creation. An image you made of yourself and others of you. It's not real.

[@764Kareltje]

@@1SmokedTurkey1 Does that mean that the collective trumps the individual? Slaverers love the idea that the ego is fake. Or at least, they want their subjects to believe it.

[@1SmokedTurkey1]

@@764Kareltje in that case the collective unites under one ego (we're the best nation, our football team is unmatched, etc.). This isn't about slaverers subjecting their victims under their rule, this is about you being enslaved by your own ego. Believing your ego is the entirety of you. In reality, it's a miniscule part of who you are.

[@alexisvulfiaawenfern8112]

@@1SmokedTurkey1 The ego is colored glass, the observer is a source of white light. The "you" consist of these parts.

[@Exodus26.13Pi]

Being comfortable with being a little uncomfortable is bliss

[@xexzersy]

indeed

[@sarroumarbeu6810]

So true

[@xs10z]

"To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony." - Marcus Aurelius "The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable" - Seneca

[@musclecarmaniac6914]

Ignorance is bliss

[@pvnchos1478]

me trying to get comfortable with my yellow crocs. Didnt know crocs were going to be this comfy. The yellow ones were on special so i bought them cuz they were cheaper lol

[@The_Catalyzt]

I think that once you have an existential crisis, it never goes away. You just learn to become friends with the crisis. You accept, for all it's shortcomings, the fact that existence as you know it will end soon, and that you will at the very least go back to whatever existence was before you were born. Sleep isn't so bad, even if it's eternal. There is no need to fear sleep, especially while you're awake. Life isn't so bad either, even though it must end, as everything does. It's actually beautiful. The good stuff REALLY is worth it.

[@Enzaio]

I agree. When you learn to deal with it, it's no longer and existential crisis. It becomes an existential way of living.

[@grilla4464]

I think that's only true if your crisis of meaning collapses into Absurdism or Nihilism. If you reject these philosophical positions and resolve what makes your individual life meaningless, resolution becomes a near certainty.

[@r-pupz7032]

Ah I agree with this so much, I've been trying to to explain to my friends and parents for ages that the last 4 or 5 years have basically been a slow-rolling existential crisis after my partner died and death was shoved in my face. My worldview completely changed. I do find that the "distractions" help as long as they are healthy ones and I feel like I am at least trying to live my life rather than waste it. But it never, ever goes away. Good luck, comrades

[@r-pupz7032]

That might have sounded unintentionally callous, it took me years to emerge from the fog of grief after my partner died. I deal with it using flippancy but it can sound cold to people who don't know me. I care a lot, though, and miss him deeply

[@yaloluyanda791]

There's no going back after taking a bite from the metaphorical apple

[@readyaimfire3454]

I remember having what felt like the most terrifying existential crisis ever at age 14. I went from being this happy go lucky kid to a severely depressed, borderline suicidal one. I suddenly found myself suffering real and frequent panic attacks just from my racing thoughts. All because of the realization I had about how "fake" everything is. How one's meaning to life isn't something inherent- its something you make yourself. I found this realization absolutely devastating at the time, but 7 years later it's something I now laugh about. That existential dread is something I learned to tame over time, learned to become friends with. The same thoughts that you used to keep me awake at night hardly affect me now. It all feels dramatic & silly now, and I'm thankful for it. Because yeah, life is all human construct. Yeah, in the grand scheme we're all just tiny insignificant beings floating on a spinning rock. But that doesn't mean life has to be misery. You have the active choice to not choose misery. If we have no choice but to weather this odd existence, then why waste it dwelling on things you can't change ? Why not spend it doing the things you love, being with the people you love, and becoming a being of love ? It feels a lot better anyway 💓

[@jdulast]

What if you can’t feel love? What if you can’t choose to not be suffering from a condition or physical/ mental pain and damage? No, not everyone has a choice to be happy and not miserable. Maybe lose the ability to feel love and try saying this again.

[@jdulast]

So I have the choice to not be depressed if I was born with depression? Nice. Why didn’t I think of that.

[@whichwitchswitchedtheswiss]

Thank you sm

[@DynamicFerret]

What exactly did you do to reach this new mindset?

[@collincornish1492]

@@jdulast what is it about your life that you can’t change??

[@kamino9502]

This comes with an insane timing

[@esaurojas011]

😭😅

[@Zabrakjedi]

It's like he's tuned into my mental health and self esteem or something. 🤣

[@zafersalih157]

not really

[@woomp2004]

Literally

[@akvmamusic]

Agreed

[@TYBeats-uz6im]

the hardest thing about experiencing a crisis such as this is that there’s no real way to go back once you have. you can interact with people and do things you once did, but the fundamental meaning behind why you’re doing it will never be the same. So good to be an ant who crawls atop a spinning rock

[@kimjonguwu5659]

But also it allows you to live life with a new appreciation and outlook. I used to have social anxiety but after my crisis and death anxiety I adopted optomistic nihlism and talking to strangers isnt scary on the grand scheme of things. I decline less invitations to hangout with friends. I call and visit my parents more often because one day they'll be gone, etc. If anything having a crisis has helped me, and I think in a strange way, it can help a lot of other people too realize that you truly only live once, better make it fun.

[@maven9323]

i get random feeling where i just randmoly get super aware and that real doesnt feel realistic to me it feels fake it feels like a facade something is hiding something is hiding something is hiding something is hiding. . . . ... .. ... . ... .. when i look at a mirror it doesnt feel like ME i think im someone some one one some one one one else else else lselseselsesleseslesesle he knows he knows he knows he knows

[@pitchbuckets2860]

@@maven9323sounds like depersonalization/derealization when your body goes in to defense mode because of panic. Your crisis being the trigger to the non-norm reality you were once use too

[@kristianhodges9564]

​@@maven9323dpdr my friend

[@1whospeaks]

This hasn't scared me. What recently scared me is seeing real freedom, actual, true freedom, radical and wild. It made me realize how little freedom I had. I've never been angrier in my life.

[@jarindawson3908]

@Alexander Fleming look around you

[@nathanielpfeiffer3530]

this

[@nilsix2371]

I realized we are all slaves of the desires of our body, everything we do is to fufill a desire from our body/brain/consciousness, no matter what we try to do we can't escape, we will always be slave of our body no matter what we do.

[@peterkent6250]

@@nilsix2371 the mind is the body though, what you assign to body is just the unconscious part of the brain/the chemicals that give us our highs and lows. That is what controls us. I mean i have aspergers and use marijuana every day XDXD i for one am in complete control of ones self *cries inside for such deep lies*

[@Wildydog]

There is no such thing as true freedom unfortunately, we will always be a slave to something or someone. You just need to accept this reality.

[@crunchylettuce5446]

I had an existential depression for years. It went away when I stopped to tell myself "if this existence is all that can be proven that I can experience, wasting it thinking about my existence is both ironic and a waste of what I've been given.", and its not like that magically solved everything out of nowhere, I was working on defeating the depression for months and that was the inevitable final words that needed to be spoken to rid myself of that. A lot of people seem to have strong thoughts about existentialism, but one of the best ways to live a fulfilling existence is to have no thoughts about it.

[@kismeteors]

you're the wisest crunchy lettuce ive had the pleasure of knowing.

[@TF-Times]

That’s the way I see it now after having gone down that path. I can’t change it, so don’t think about it and enjoy what I have.

[@michaelpond813]

Thanks so true. So good for our heath.

[@godnotavailable2094]

100% agree. Unfortunately I read and watch so much philosophical/existential stuff that it's on my mind 24/7, and everything in real life ends up being a reminder of that truth. But you're completely right. It's best to dumb yourself down and think about smaller things.

[@animeloveer97]

The realest version of ignorance is bliss tbh

[@michaelikedi9245]

It’s insane how letting yourself go really allows you to find solitude in such a beautiful and chaotic world. And really helps see people for what they are.

[@RichardHarlos]

Michael Ikedi wrote, _"helps see people for what they are."_ For me, that translates into people appearing *'simultaneously pitiful and awe-inspiring'.* How does it translate for you?

[@michaelikedi9245]

@@RichardHarlos you described it perfectly. Everyone is incredibly flawed but that what makes them so interesting and beautiful

[@ramennoodle5478]

don’t you think we have a purpose in this life? The fact that our eyebrows are above our eyes shows that we have a purpose in this life as our eyebrows protect our eyes from sweat which contains salt, if it keeps getting into our eyes it will damage it. This shows that the creator, whoever created this universe and us, is the most wise. Similarly, the fact that our eyes are in front of our faces not behind them shows the wisdom of the creator. Imagine if our eyes were behind us, how would we walk? Our nose being above our mouth again, shows the wisdom of the creator as it inables us to smell our food before eating it. So ask yourself this question. “Does it make sense for the one who created this world, who is the most wise, to make us for no reason? With no purpose?” The answer is of course “no”. When we look at the sky and the earth, the alteration between night and day, we will come to realise that all of this did not come about for no reason. .I can explain to you the purpose of your life if you want if this makes sense to you and you want me to explain then reply I will explain it all if you want. With complete logic. I can explain completely. Thanks for reading Have a good day

[@katherinefayad4726]

But how do you let yourself go

[@RichardHarlos]

@@katherinefayad4726 If you were to try to answer that question based on the content of the video, what do you think the video suggests as a way of 'letting oneself go'?

[@quinnsmith6092]

i wanna have a big group hug with everyone that has had "the moment". it's been strange feeling alone and unsure about well everything. it's all one big game of apes playing house and it's a little funny, i think it would be more fun if more of us we're in on the bit!

[@same9969]

Well said.

[@ramennoodle5478]

don’t you think we have a purpose in this life? The fact that our eyebrows are above our eyes shows that we have a purpose in this life as our eyebrows protect our eyes from sweat which contains salt, if it keeps getting into our eyes it will damage it. This shows that the creator, whoever created this universe and us, is the most wise. Similarly, the fact that our eyes are in front of our faces not behind them shows the wisdom of the creator. Imagine if our eyes were behind us, how would we walk? Our nose being above our mouth again, shows the wisdom of the creator as it inables us to smell our food before eating it. So ask yourself this question. “Does it make sense for the one who created this world, who is the most wise, to make us for no reason? With no purpose?” The answer is of course “no”. When we look at the sky and the earth, the alteration between night and day, we will come to realise that all of this did not come about for no reason. .I can explain to you the purpose of your life if you want if this makes sense to you and you want me to explain then reply I will explain it all if you want. With complete logic. I can explain completely. Thanks for reading Have a good day

[@Francostein]

@@ramennoodle5478 I did read all of this and I want to thank you for the time you put in to portraying your thoughts to the world and for wishing me a good day as well. Thanks you. Thats about where I end with the platitudes. This has to be the most misinformed deranged take on the idea of evolution ever, yet every theist has a similar thought process. He even points out in the video how this type of thinking isn’t realistic at all. No… god didn’t put my eyebrows above my eyes because he thought it Fucking through, I have little patches of hair above my eyes because my ape ancestors without them were more likely to die because they were spending to much time wiping sweat out of their eyes to realize all the other apes are running from them, as a lioness is mere moments away from ending the lineage of apes without eyebrows. I wish you a very stressful day of learning and reading. Go fucking educate yourself.

[@lachlanpaterson5188]

@@ramennoodle5478 I believe what you a stating is something known as the puddle fallacy. Imagine, if you will, there was a hole in the road, then over the day it rained, suddenly that hole is filled with water which creates a puddle. Now imagine that puddle become conscious and alive. It might think to itself: "Oh wow, this hole that I'm in fits me rather well, actually I fit into it perfectly!" It thinks some more "Since I fit this hole so perfectly, it must mean that the hole was specifically created for the purpose of holding me, which means I must have a purpose for being in hole" This is in fact false, the hole was created by accident, and the water falling into the hole from the sky was luck. Water naturally adapted and shaped itself to the hole without any need for a creator of the hole or the puddle, it simply was for no objective reason.

[@Isometrix116]

@@ramennoodle5478 Except we also have a lot of things wrong with our bodies. Our upright posture and the organization of our organs gives us back pain, causes undue degradation on the hips and knees, etc., showing that we evolved from apes imperfectly, because evolution isn’t perfect, it’s taking what was and making it better for its environment, not making it perfect.

[@jaktwo]

One year ago I started having massive anxiety about dying for like months on end, thinking about how i would just prefer to float through space endlessly without nothing to do rather than have my stream of consciousness end and just never exist again. I just want to say if any of you are going through this type of crisis (and for me it was a serious one) it will pass. If you can, go to therapy, occupy yourself in work/studies, make sure to get your excercise and it will pass. If you have a passion, develop it. It is true that nothing matters, but it is only true until something matters.

[@xtoosy_5348]

i have these moments in life yearly, its become a seasonal thing. its relieving and refreshing when you pass these anxieties, but it's such an overwhelming feeling of dread that id never wish on anyone

[@jaktwo]

@@xtoosy_5348 I wish you strength to move on from these episodes forever!!! Stay strong my friend, I'm rooting for you

[@adnanbosnian5051]

And dont do drugs, especially with crisis like this. Trust Goodness and be brave.

[@solidsnake7292]

I love you for this bro been having them for like the past Year

[@Lonnh]

So I'm not the only one who wants to endlessly float in space as long I have my consciousness huh

[@ReynaSingh]

Death is a guarantee, but that doesn’t change that we have a life to live. An ending doesn’t mean that everything that came before didn’t happen. The "distraction" is the point

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

How do you know this isn’t just a comforting lie?

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

@webber The only hope I see is for there to be a God of some sort. And I’m not sure there are any, but I hope there is.

[@m-mori]

You absolutely do not need to live and if people feel like they'd rather not live in long lasting avoidance until they die its their right to do so. This view just sounds very depressing.

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

@@scottramos2864 I’ve never really understood this reasoning. The book of Ecclesiastes by King Solomon describes the futility of existence depressingly well and from every conceivable angle. “The wind never gets to where it is going.” “All rivers run to the oceans, but the oceans are never full.” “No one survives, we are dust in the wind.” “No one will be remembered by those who come after and they in turn will also be forgotten.” “No accomplishment will endure.” “There is nothing new under the sun, all has been done before and will be done again.” “Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.” And he calls every possible struggle, cause, motivation, or quest simply, “chasing after the wind.” Solomon’s conclusion is that God existing is the only hope there can possibly be, so I sure hope he’s real.

[@consulhunter9377]

@@TheNightWatcher1385 "every concievable angle" A human is quite literally incapable of that. Most of those statments are untrue. A person dies but leaves they're legacy behind; Most noticeable inventions and forms of Art. A person can only endure an accomplishment if they've truly desired to see it finished. Otherwise, your just wasting time. Just because you can't find "true" meaning behind it, doesn't mean its not worth doing. Most people look at school as a waste of time, (it is tbh) but it provides fundamental "thinking" skills which are obviously missed by most standards. Thats a very nihilistic approach when dispite there being no urgent meaning, doesn't mean its pointless. Life itself is meaningless when a person disregards the quality of life itself. Imagine if we couldn't breathe on this planet. Imagine if you understood everything that is to know and could know. Imagine being born into a hellish landscape voided of other people or entities beyond comprehension (fantasy at this point but superstition is superficial). Let's say there is no God, and you knowing that what could that possibly mean? If your only looking forward to the afterlife, you might as well get there now.

[@jeremiahclifford3272]

I read denial of death in college over a decade ago and it completely changed my outlook on life

[@rambro5104]

In a positiv way?

[@jeremiahclifford3272]

Not sure. On one hand I see reality more defined and clearer with painful truths and in the other hand is a more blissful ignorance from before reading it.

[@CrazyLinguiniLegs]

That’s a book worth the read.

[@krissifadwa]

"Spiritual Enlightenment" by Jed McKenna; that book will make your Ego feel like poop.

[@causeoflava]

is it worth a read ?

[@FirstnameLastname-sb3hj]

Does anyone ever feel like they're trapped inside themselves? Like your body is a hinderance to you, your means of communication fail to express what you feel on the inside, things like that?

[@whichwitchswitchedtheswiss]

Yess

[@murmursmeglos]

Absolutely. I find myself resenting the physical world, I love the feeling of just being a brain in my head, to the point even the smallest movement feels like agony and totally draining. Having said that, I'm learning to trust my own instincts and turn off my brain when doing certain physical things, they mostly go well on auto-pilot and I may even enjoy it. It is disappointing when life doesn't match all the magic and wonder in your brain but you start to learn that people aren't aware of you in the same way you are, they are busy being aware of themselves.

[@NickWheeler9559]

YES! OMG! I thought I was the only one. So for me my problem is boredom. For me I simply just want to exist. Those who say they don't want to exist forever the truth is boredom has taken over you. If boredom never existed you would want to live. That's all I want. to live for infinity thinking without emotions. I also have adhd which drives me nuts because I know rationally that I don't want to hunt for dopamine and I want to think straight or focus but my adhd has me racing through thoughts and it adds onto boredom. So again I just wish I could transfer myself out of this and into a new system of thought to think more clearly.

[@corrina1963]

as a wise man once said, "why am I still here, just to suffer?"

[@NevillesRightHand1905]

He wasn't wise at all ...he was deeply asleep.

[@turtleanton6539]

Mgs😊

[@trashcan8887]

i wish i was blissfully ignorant about existence and death. the depersonalisation keeps hitting hard these days smh

[@stevemin5338]

We are beings cursed with knowledge.

[@StefanosMouts]

I can relate

[@NibsilProductions]

I'm slowly coming to terms with the fact that I may never meet another soul as distant in thoughts of the present moment's insignificance as I am. Knowing there are others out there that have similar problems and have trouble with their thoughts gives me comfort in knowing we're all shouldering this together. Even if we're not really together now, the internet connects our minds into a single emotion and concept everytime we log on. So whoever's reading this, I appreciate you. And if you feel alone, you're not alone in feeling that. In the end, if you're gonna be stuck with yourself until you die you might as well try to make it a pleasurable experience.

[@heehee3]

This comment really touched me.

[@petitpotato2692]

This is comforting

[@YourPalKindred]

Why should I make life good if I die regardless? Why impart any effort onto the world if all works are erased, if all saved lives are lost, if all memories are erased? Why do anything when we live so we may die?

[@NibsilProductions]

@@YourPalKindred If life is meaningless because the only meaning provided is a rationalisation by our own conscience, it stands to reason that even the meaningless in itself is meaningless. Why live a meaningless life and be sad when you can live a meaninglessness life but enjoy it? Everything lies to the same proportion as the next idea. Nothing has value unless agreed upon by yourself or any other. To have value an effect must be had. If you value your life then you'll live it. If you don't value your life you'll either end it or live it poorly. Value is determined by man. Man is not determined by value.

[@YourPalKindred]

@@NibsilProductions Because living a happy life is simply beyond my means. I did not choose to live this way. I was born into a homeless family and saddled with debt before I was out of school. I have applied for thousands of jobs and have yet to get even an interview due to my mental problems and my financial instability. This hell of a life is not my making. I cannot choose to live a happy life because it simply isnt a choice, and so I must die, as it is the only choice left. So I have faught and flailed and thrashed against the darkness my entire life and for what? I am no better off. The effort was meaningless.

[@janschauf1128]

I've found a nihilistic aproach that helped me get through existential crisis. I just realized that there is no real mesurement for how great someone is. Objectivly there isn't even such thing as worth. But there is a subjectiv worth of you that is felt by you and others . And that is, and thereby allways will have been there. So you dont need to strife for glory as you allready acieved it in someones eyes.

[@treegrilld]

facts

[@dugglebay3483]

Objective truth? Subjective truth? In the end don’t those words just apply to other words, concepts within the human experience? The world just exists, it does not care whether things are subjective or objective. If you isolate humanity and regard it objectively, then it could be said that for sure that some person ‘objectively has a subjective view.’ As for ‘greatness’ why not decide that based on your own values?

[@weirdLEXbutok]

i love that . very awesome take . it makes me feel a lot better about life actually

[@dean1111]

wow

[@GentleJungle]

I didn't realize existential crisis had so much to do with glory as much as fear of death. I thought more fear of life, or rather. trapped in a flesh suit and weird ass "reality"

[@Firehazerd5444]

I am curretnly feeling an existential crisis. I feel myself being lost in it and any semblance of character fading. This video was well timed. Thank you.

[@TheArtistDolly]

I lost my best friend, he was 26. A random heart Attack. I'm in extreme shock , my mind and soul. It changed me. Even through my grief & suffering, I feel gratitude. His death showed me life. Now feel some control of why to survive, why to thrive & help those who need me here, whilst I have the chance. He Lives on in me. ❤️‍🩹 I Miss you Callum. 😪

[@ramennoodle5478]

don’t you think we have a purpose in this life? The fact that our eyebrows are above our eyes shows that we have a purpose in this life as our eyebrows protect our eyes from sweat which contains salt, if it keeps getting into our eyes it will damage it. This shows that the creator, whoever created this universe and us, is the most wise. Similarly, the fact that our eyes are in front of our faces not behind them shows the wisdom of the creator. Imagine if our eyes were behind us, how would we walk? Our nose being above our mouth again, shows the wisdom of the creator as it inables us to smell our food before eating it. So ask yourself this question. “Does it make sense for the one who created this world, who is the most wise, to make us for no reason? With no purpose?” The answer is of course “no”. When we look at the sky and the earth, the alteration between night and day, we will come to realise that all of this did not come about for no reason. .I can explain to you the purpose of your life if you want if this makes sense to you and you want me to explain then reply I will explain it all if you want. With complete logic. I can explain completely. Thanks for reading Have a good day

[@TheArtistDolly]

@@ramennoodle5478 My comment says after the Death of a Loved one I have found the purpose of my Life. I can see why I am here and the many roads I can choose to take. I don't need to know why. I'm here right now, thats all that matters. We do our best to make others happy. Give your heart and don't live in fear. I overcome social anxiety since, this is all fucked. If I was too shy to be myself. I'm useless to anyone. So its changed me for the better. So Thank you, but yeah I'm all good- still breathing. Best wishes to you ✌🏻 x

[@jujubazonazinha]

lots of strength to you 💪🏻

[@anvithpayyavula7114]

@@ramennoodle5478 well, there's a simple explanation. from single-celled organisms, we evolved. as in, a creature gave birth to other creatures that were randomly slightly different. let's say, a human gave birth to another human that had their eyes above their eyebrows. sweat would, indeed, as you said, get into their eyes. this would lead to them being worse at surviving than someone who has their eyebrows above their eyes, and hence they have a higher likelihood of dying before they ever get to reproduce and pass on their genes. hence, nature has a way of creating beings that are optimized for living, without the need for a creator that moulds our designs. this is evolution, what darwin was trying to tell us.

[@randomperson6087]

I lost my best friends best friend a week ago and now I’m sitting here one day into my period at 8 am haven’t slept yet crying over a man I never met and wondering how I exist

[@Lilipad08]

For me, I get so used to just living, and it gives me panic attacks when I realize it will end. Sometimes it feel stupid to worry about it, because Im a teenager, but I'm terrified of becoming an adult, and living a boring, anxious, unfulfilled, etc. life.

[@handsofchange11111]

I'm also a teen and I'm struggling with a lot of the thoughts you're having; would you like to talk with me, and we can both voice how we feel? I'd like to have this conversation with one of my friends or relatives but none of them seem to get it, and the one that does is too scared to face the eventuality of death and refuses to talk about it I could send you my discord if you'd like :) existential loneliness fucking sucks and I don't know if talking about it would help but who knows

[@daniel0_o861]

hey, how are you guys doing nowadays?

[@NedInYaHead]

I'm not "scared" of death per se; I am a firm believer that it is just like sleep, a lack of consciousness. But I also don't take existence for granted; more than anything, I enjoy my experience too much - I feel scared that my experience is limited; to take it away is tragic to me. I am similarly about a physical decline in my body: it is inevitable, and I am certain I won't be prepared to give up activities I derive so much enjoyment from.

[@ramennoodle5478]

don’t you think we have a purpose in this life? The fact that our eyebrows are above our eyes shows that we have a purpose in this life as our eyebrows protect our eyes from sweat which contains salt, if it keeps getting into our eyes it will damage it. This shows that the creator, whoever created this universe and us, is the most wise. Similarly, the fact that our eyes are in front of our faces not behind them shows the wisdom of the creator. Imagine if our eyes were behind us, how would we walk? Our nose being above our mouth again, shows the wisdom of the creator as it inables us to smell our food before eating it. So ask yourself this question. “Does it make sense for the one who created this world, who is the most wise, to make us for no reason? With no purpose?” The answer is of course “no”. When we look at the sky and the earth, the alteration between night and day, we will come to realise that all of this did not come about for no reason. .I can explain to you the purpose of your life if you want if this makes sense to you and you want me to explain then reply I will explain it all if you want. With complete logic. I can explain completely. Thanks for reading Have a good day

[@horizonte_cristalina]

@@ramennoodle5478 I get what you’re saying and totally agree, but I think that it would make much more sense in the natural original world, if we were really here to enjoy life and have the time to think about ourselves and finding out what we really like and who we really are, but the world as we know it now a days, the capitalism, where we first need to think of how to get enough money to do the BASIC things such as eating, doesn’t give us the time to actually live. We spend all of our lives working, rushing, meeting standards for a small group of powerful ppl to rule the world for us. So I think existence has lost it’s initial propose, and the fact that there’s no scape to this crazy fucked up world it’s scary.

[@ramennoodle5478]

@Fernanda Gutierrez I kinda feel like you missed my point. Is there not more to this life than just living day to day, working, coming back from work then at the end dying only to leave behind everything you own? There has to be more. Whoever made us must have made us with a greater purpose, and making us with a greater purpose is of no use if it only applies in the “natural original world” as we would then have no reason of being here right now you know? Why would the one who made us make us with a purpose then put us in an environment where we can’t fulfil our purpose? Life being hard doesn’t negate the fact that we must be here for a reason if you know what I mean and we need to search for why we’re here and not be too caught up in the present. I’ll give you an example. Imagine you were going to visit a country like Morocco, and you’ve never been there before, what would you do before visiting? You would research about it. “What currency do they use, which parts are safe and which parts are not safe, how expensive are things”. You will not say “when I get there I’ll come to know” because you might get there and it’ll be too late. Likewise we will all die one day, and we should try and search for answers about what will happen to us after we die, and we shouldn’t say “when I get there I’ll come to know”, because you could get there and it’ll be too late. So don’t be too caught up in this life. Our lives can end at any moments, how many people sleep and never wake up? How many people leave their houses and never come back? We should search for the truth before it’s too late

[@heehee3]

exactly. i dont want it to be over. but i also don't want it to be endless. i just...

[@heehee3]

@@ramennoodle5478 ...i know you think this makes sense. and im not going to say anything else. this is a common coping mechanism, and i assume your brain is holding tight onto it, so nothing i say will change your mine. but not everything can be answered yet.

[@maru5259]

'hyper anxious animal who constantly invents reasons for anxiety even where there is none' This line hit me so deep because I'm like in a point rn where I'm constantly overthinking. This is exactly it, I keep making my own problems since, with the uncertainty of an answer, I try to find all the possible reasons to explain their actions. I make myself so anxious by creating all these branching paths, even when there probably is no reason for it, but I'm scared of the unknown with us so I do the impossible task of trying to prepare for everything, eventhough everything can happen. Only because I know it can die.

[@intreoo]

An existential crisis is something you *never* forget. I had the absolute worst existential crisis of my life almost a year ago and it still affects my life in many ways. You never get over it, you just learn how to accept and deal with it. I'm not there yet, but I reckon that once you truly accept how you feel, life becomes bliss again.

[@rubixcube639]

hope this helps: meaning is subjective, there is no way to live an objectively meaningful life because life itself is not meaningful, but this means you can define meaning for yourself. you wont have to feel like you wasted your life away doing something if that made you happy, because then it was meaningful to you, and therefore your life was meaningful.

[@nvmffs]

@@rubixcube639 It is objectively meaningful but you need to first come to the realization that we're reincarnating every once in a while on this planet to experience ourselves because everything that exists is ONE.

[@lilemont9302]

@@rubixcube639This only works if you care about nothing besides yourself, the present moment, and your life is good. Take away any of those conditions, and this advice is useless.

[@Batman-hq8tv]

You're just obsessed with those thoughts. It might be ocd

[@shashouw8352]

@@Batman-hq8tv i have ocd and so I can’t draw the line between consciousness and ocd.

[@AlyssaPerrine]

you genuinely just helped me get out of a two year long depression with this.

[@angelo2751]

if you’re being serious, congrats

[@AlyssaPerrine]

@@angelo2751 i am! i was suffering with immense agoraphobia and depression due to a horrible existential crisis. the thought of dying terrified me so much that it felt immobilizing for a VERY long time, and this video really help to put things into perspective (and, therapy, of course)

[@gustav1823]

This video didn’t do anything for me, I have bad existence crisis, I fear death and I fear life as is. I’m having a hard time just accepting that we are just alive. And that no one seems to be questioning it.

[@AlyssaPerrine]

update: this video helped me more than i knew it did at the time. i slowly learned that, yes. i'm going to die. but if i keep worrying about NOT living........i'm stilll going to be not living. i'm wasting time by worrying, when i could be ACTIVELY. LIVING. i'm doing a lot better now, seeing a therapist, going to my doctors appointments, taking care of myself. i really hope this video can help others the way it helped me.

[@gyusbrainrot7444]

Same

[@ColdCoals]

"A hyper anxious animal who constantly invents reasons for anxiety even where there is none". Laughs anxiously

[@martinhavlicek7792]

Accepting the cruel, dark and absurd reality of life (or death should I say) left me with occasional madness of sort, but it also made me more open to enjoy this finite existance Im having. Its like gazing into the abyss, but the abyss smiles back at you. It also made me less drawn to open-up eyes of deeply religious people to the reality of death. Who am I to throw them into this madness. To take their hope.

[@Max-sd7hn]

From my own experience I have found that I am now ok with my existence. I think the habits that have gotten me here are that I socialize, be out in nature, and do the things I find fulfillment in doing all on a daily basis. It’s wild how negative my mind can get when I lack these things, especially when I don’t socialize.

[@alanmendes3666]

Exactly, one morning surfing even in bad conditions can refresh my thoughts for a while. I use to get long periods without socialize (only small talks), and when I travel to my hometown I fell renewed.

[@abishekamahanama4751]

Yup! Absolutely 💯! Like for me the biggest pain I’ve experienced via self realisation is that I have an extroverted personality, and while I’m on « Quarter Life Crisis » times in which I’m unemployed, stuck in debt and little to no opportunities to find like minded people whom I share the same chemistry with got me into a state of paranoia in regards of knowing that I’m not living my life profoundly.

[@simplysarx]

i’ve always been afraid of the inevitable but a little over a year ago i actually almost died giving birth to my daughter. it was the most calm i’ve ever felt. amidst the panic in the room between doctors and nurses scrambling to stop the bleeding and my husband crying over me and holding our newborn, i just laid there and felt like i could sleep forever. i hope that when my actual time comes i’ll have that same exact feeling and i hope that it washes over me again so i won’t be afraid.

[@mcmacshalfilya]

WoW!! That's HEAVY DUTY

[@rubixcube639]

i just hope when i die i feel like ive managed to spend my life as happy as i could be and made other people as happy as they could be and if thats the case then i feel like i would feel fufilled dying

[@YeshuaLovesYou.]

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 NLT - Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the Good News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then, and you still stand firm in it. It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you-unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place. I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said.

[@MildChunkySalsa]

This is what gets me so confused to be honest. I got COVID in the beginning of the pandemic where I live and between the absolute panic of having the disease I also had a revelation. There was a point where I almost accepted the possibility of dying, embraced it even. At that moment I was almost at peace of how I lived my life and also feel like if I had another chance I wouldn’t change anything. But I still get anxiety about death anyway, I think it’s just bad thought circles that I’ve never outgrown. Also I don’t really have suicidal ideation either, like I want to live my life ffs

[@gabrielhemingway6618]

There are phases in my life where I essentially feel, in the core of my heart, that nearly every experience and interaction I have will cease to hold meaning or value by a certain point. I think what scares many of us deeply is not just our physical death, but the total impression we leave in this world dying as well. It's one thing to not have knowledge of our individual purpose, and it's another to not have knowledge of the afterlife, but I think it's something on a whole other scale when we realize that time in its essence is the great annihilator, taking the experiences of the living and the legacies of the dead with it. Perhaps the fear is rooted in illusion, because maybe at the bottom of everything there isn't a self and an other, there only is. Who knows. :)

[@moosesues8887]

What

[@gabrielhemingway6618]

@@moosesues8887 Onion

[@ruthoglesby1805]

Indeed.😃

[@nvmffs]

Don't worry, it will never cease to hold meaning because everything is stored in the informational field but I find it amusing that people who are most probably conformists and have always been a slave to society's expectations and norms all of a sudden care about value and meaning. The cognitive dissonance must be strong.

[@accountrarysi2776]

Sometimes having an existential crisis makes me feel somehow unique and special even if I know it's not true at all.

[@groovydiphenhydramine9707]

I kind of get what you mean. It’s like you take a step out of the reality, whilst everyone’s still in it.

[@moosesues8887]

@@groovydiphenhydramine9707 you don’t take a step out tho you just think you do

[@theloneindividual]

@@moosesues8887 You can't escape the matrix, huh?

[@moosesues8887]

@@theloneindividual da tate chronicles

[@Faunadoodlez]

Ye

[@madmanmortonyt4890]

*becomes more self aware *existential crisis ensues *fuck go back

[@sandshark2]

I’ve always highly valued my own thoughts on death, and that is that in order to see death as inevitable, it also means life is inevitable. Both life and death have the same purpose: to occur. To keep reality moving, as life just as in death makes molecules, atoms, particles move through time. By living, just living, you make reality real.

[@yungquaalude336]

I didn’t feel alive through the ages of 14-18, it was all time passing day by day living a routine waking up at 4 pm without self awareness and the only thing I really cared about was my ego which made a really hard time making friends and talking to people, once I became aware of my existence and past I had the craziest existential crisis I couldn’t handle literal split second thoughts races to an out of control spiral leaving me scared and miserable each passing moment, through time of trial and error of ages 19-20 attempting to keep an open mind and understand people as well as understanding myself realizing who I am and what I can do to make everyday count and less miserable, right now at age 21 I have a cat named cheddar bob and a dog named Benny-hana with my girlfriend whom I live with making a life all the more enjoyable each day waking up to the best routine I couldn’t have imagined having before all the crazy and silly thoughts. Don’t spend time on what you can’t control, spend it on the happiness you can control.

[@SadSpartacus]

I am never not in the throes of an existential crisis. This thanksgiving I was spending time with my family and I just looked around and wanted to cry constantly. So many years have already passed. They are all going to die. I am going to die. I have wasted my life and all my potential is being wasted and it’s like there is nothing I can do to change it. Throw in being alone and single my entire life, and it’s to much to bare.

[@Coleman1212]

you’ll be fine

[@marelkrs]

My friend. You are not through this alone. The most genuinely pointless thing we can do in our life is lose hope and think it's "too late". We all have in some sense wasted opportunities. It's difficult to realize for sure. But it's never too late. Let's strive to live the rest of our lives with love and gratitude towards eachother. What we can do is accept our situation, no matter how many mistakes we have done, recollect alour thoughts and say, ok what can I do from now on. And do our best with what we have. I really reccomend looking into the Eastern Orthodox Church. It saved me. I wish you the best in life and remember we are all together even when we don't realize it, you're not alone❤

[@Zyraelify]

This may just be stockholm syndrome but I'm starting to love this tune you have playing at the start of this video

[@smocaine.]

it's not stockholm syndrome, it's acquired place preference

[@MP4_mafia]

@@smocaine. I love how this comment section is nerdy enough that the overused popular psychology references are corrected with something more accurate

[@fireflieer2422]

@@MP4_mafia lmaoo

[@Chronorust]

@@MP4_mafia I mean...it's a pretty widely understood condition. The guy is not getting held hostage by the KZbinr 😂

[@MP4_mafia]

@@Chronorust I have certainly seen plenty of popular concepts stretched to lose all meaning. I mean have you seen what people have done to Schrodinger's cat, Gaslighting?

[@frankieC137]

This video just gave me ego death and brought it back with a defibrillator

[@markm2092]

Why is it considered a crisis? Personally whenever my mind or heart drifts towards such ruminations I feel elated. Anyway if nothing matters then knowing that nothing matters doesn't matter.

[@redamber483]

woah

[@bluwasabi7635]

and everything and every action matters equally

[@blergblergblerg1343]

Realizing that "knowing that nothing matters doesn't matter" isn't comforting. Things still don't matter and it's still confusing and terrifying. It's considered a crisis because facing transcendent problems to which there doesn't seem to be a solution tends to majorly disrupt your behavior when it comes to things of lesser importance, ie everything. You can only feel elated by ignoring the problem in some way, or having a belief system in which value is arbitrary.

[@404errorpagenotfound.6]

@@bluwasabi7635 if everything matters equally = nothing matters at all. Also if everything matters equally you are neurotic and need professional help ASAP.

[@xs10z]

It's considered a "crisis" because the definition of "crisis" is "a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger." What part of the definition of "crisis" do you not think applies?

[@kaidupree3564]

I’ve been struggling with this for some time now, because I have lost all sense of who I genuinely am. No matter what I do, I can’t think genuinely, I can’t _be me._ I’m a really socially conscious person, so I built up this fake persona, someone who’s like me, but infinitely more confident, funny, and nicer. Additionally, I feel like if I can’t make everybody else’s life better, then my life doesn’t deserve to be better, so I’m always scraping for the chance to make someone laugh, or even just smile. Due to this, now everything I say is either buried under enormous amounts of irony, or is my “alter ego.” It’s weird to think how the last time I’ve been genuinely me was two years ago, right before I entered middle school. Now, I’m stuck in this façade, with no idea how to escape the masquerade of my life

[@Sadonyx]

Wow. This is the third thing to spontaneously come up with this same message Fuck driving anxiety, imma get that liscense

[@Boggeddown_]

So I watched this last November, I only got about halfway through before it propelled me into a 6 month long non-stop existential crisis. Some days I would have a simple anxiety attack, but others I would fall victim to days long panic attacks that forced me into unconsciousness. I have been dealing with this on a smaller scale since age 7 and it has only gotten worse. I have had an extremely difficult time coming to terms with death, till this day i am still horrified, but I came back to watch it. I am a little nervous but after a while of not having daily black-outs of panic attacks, I am looking forward to finishing your video. I guess I wanna say thanks for forcing me into thinking about my death, even if it was really scary and long term, it helped me. I haven’t overcome my fear, and I doubt I ever will, but I’m better at coping with it and I like to think it’s because this video forced me to do so :]

[@violet4239]

I had my first existential crisis at 3 years old. I was in my dads suburban and we just pulled into a convenience store parking lot, I’m not even sure what led me to the realization or if I heard something about it and that’s why, but I just started straight bawling in my car seat at the realization my dad was going to die someday. I remember him pulling me out of my car seat confused as fuck. I remember saying to him “you’re going to die one day” when explaining to him my reason for crying and I very vividly just remember him going “So???” And giving me that 🤨 look LMFAO. He wasn’t even freaked out that his three year old was declaring he would die. I think he realized that *I* came to the conscious realization of mortality as he was pulling me out of my car seat and was kinda just like…. Lmfao ok kid let’s go inside I’ll get you a Slim Jim and a SoBe. I’ve struggled with existentialism my whole life, especially within the last two years. It’s highly disturbing. Existence feels painful because of how hyper aware of the fact I am of being conscious, but I always think back to that day, 17 years ago, when my dad was so nihilistic about how his now mortally-conscious child was reacting to the facts of existence. Idk. I strive to be that nihilistic.

[@heehee3]

me too. i wish i could just turn off the thoughts.

[@mrwhitemustache9035]

when i was 3 i almost swallowed a plastic cap

[@BioChemistryWizard]

What a cruel joke to be sandwiched between 2 voids of nothingness, only to be accustomed to a short dream that won't even be remembered.

[@RaoulDuk3]

To me the real cruelty is that we have to be aware of this. What would be the harm in making all humans oblivious to this idea.

[@ACF_Real]

This made me realize something, yes we all have an identity, we can build relationships and get through life. Our job is to be there. We impact other lives, we impact everything. From talking to the kid without friends to complimenting something it will change a day to day life. We are not animals, we are human.

[@TheJackMouse]

I used to and still do have nightly panic attacks over this stuff. I’d launch up in bed at night crying for help, feeling like life was a VR headset I couldn’t rip off or a roller coaster that never hits the bottom. This video at first seemed to only want to make it worse, but I was disarmed by how oddly calmed I was by the end. One day I’ll die, and that terrifies me, but it’ll be only just as strange as when I was born. I was nothing, then I was something, and someday I’ll be nothing again. But I feel comforted by this buried sense of a point. Some underlying feeling that all this would have taken an awful lot of effort to put together, so much so it practically demands a purpose. That’s helping me sleep tonight.

[@ineisio8313]

i go through the exact same things at night. i think abt death and why we even exist in the first place… and i start panicking. idk how to make myself feel better

[@maud7997]

Totally relate to the first two sentences. Dec 2023 now, and it only felt like yesterday when for around a month i completely lost my appetite and sort of ability to discern the meaning of existence. And i'm a highschool student actually. Last year i was consumed by enormous amounts of stress from problems with school refusal and falling behind with academics. During my peak, I distinctly remember one day during it, i spontaneously awakened to a pounding heart and the first thought in mind was ''hurry you have no time, work 12 hours a day so can you catch up before next year.'' It was 7am, and i took no time to rush to spent the next 6-10etc hours or so mostly sitting on a hard wooden chair rushing through every exercise, and this went on for a week, and i kid you not the i had all the energy it took to work for so long. i was not exhausted. This was Nov 2023. I remember asking to be driven to the Emergency Dept and it was midnight then, feeling like they could do something to help me, maybe inpatient. And when i was in, they asked me a set of simple questions to which i went on a half hour ramble about my school issues and fearing of the inevitable death, which i named an ''existential crisis.'' Needless to say the attending doc stared at me blankly the entire time and simply told me ''its all in your head, you will not die'' at the end of it. Immediately i felt slightly better somehow. I was discharged and referred onto a waitlist to see CAMHS. The excruciating thoughts only returned. Sometimes i wish to relive that period again, because it eerily also brought me company in a way i'm not sure how to describe. I guess i became less social anxiety driven, as it all dissipated during that brief month and i got a taste of how a non-socially anxious person lived their life. At the same time i also felt like a moving, floating, entity of nothing, and emotionless, and the noise of the world, the cars, people talking and birds, were tuned down. Thanks for coming to my monologue i guess.

[@mrismar1491]

so what is your imagination off the world behind the vr headset? please tell me

[@Ihateallthegods]

I am not scared of death, I am just pissed by the fact that I have to do things in order to lessen my suffering.

[@k.d.2589]

Exactly this.

[@masticloxpoker1006]

dellusional

[@cris_here]

Yes!

[@bobhope5114]

It's an unholy pain the the as$ is what it is.

[@madirosali_]

My worst fear is nothing happening after death. What if nothing happens. You have no consciousness, no control. It’s an empty and black void. This scares me…

[@Mr.SoggyShoes]

Same

[@EyeHaveaDream]

Just think back to before you were born. You won’t even be aware of a so called “existence.” You’ll be just where you came from….

[@davidepellegrino3999]

I used to think exactly like this, but then I realized that we tend to call death with no afterlife life "ETERNAL OBLIVION" or "NOTHINGNESS" or stuff like that, while, if you think about it, it's basically sleeping. I'm not saying that it's technically the same, but to you it sure is. I mean, if instead of death, we just just started sleeping for eternity, would it be better? Perhaps, perhaps not, but I'm pretty sure it would feel exactly like death Furthermore, I'm also sure that 1) Every kind of anxiety that can derive from death is by FAR a lot worse than actual death and 2) We fear death because we can't comprehend an unending state of unconsciousness

[@MMeltingButter]

if that was the case, maybe taking the consequences of immortality doesnt sound bad..

[@okaberintaro3936]

You feel no emotions tho. This void is scary only when we alive

[@immagoingbacktobed1742]

Back when I was freaking out about life and everything, I concluded that I shouldn't worry about it. Maybe there is life after death, maybe not- I don't know, therefor it's pointless to let worry consume me. Whatever happens, happens.

[@xtoosy_5348]

I've spent most of my life with the seasonal existential dread. it hits me like a truck and has been since I was seven. The main idea that has always caused this panic/anxiety in my life is death, i don't fear for what happens after life. I dislike feeling that i have no control over whatever this plain of existence is and i will never get an answer in my timeline of what the fuck all this is. i heavily got into religion as a kid, with a atheist mother it didn't last longer then two years.

[@fudge1594]

Having an existential crisis is only realizing the truth but you just have to accept it and make it your best friend in awkward or embarrassing situations. If you ever run into your ex in a party and she tries to kiss you then everyone laughs, just know that there's gonna be a time where everyone will forget this.

[@ramennoodle5478]

don’t you think we have a purpose in this life? The fact that our eyebrows are above our eyes shows that we have a purpose in this life as our eyebrows protect our eyes from sweat which contains salt, if it keeps getting into our eyes it will damage it. This shows that the creator, whoever created this universe and us, is the most wise. Similarly, the fact that our eyes are in front of our faces not behind them shows the wisdom of the creator. Imagine if our eyes were behind us, how would we walk? Our nose being above our mouth again, shows the wisdom of the creator as it inables us to smell our food before eating it. So ask yourself this question. “Does it make sense for the one who created this world, who is the most wise, to make us for no reason? With no purpose?” The answer is of course “no”. When we look at the sky and the earth, the alteration between night and day, we will come to realise that all of this did not come about for no reason. .I can explain to you the purpose of your life if you want if this makes sense to you and you want me to explain then reply I will explain it all if you want. With complete logic. I can explain completely. Thanks for reading Have a good day

[@clared5812]

@@ramennoodle5478 the most useless comment I’ve ever seen. Tell me you don’t understand basic science & evolution without telling me

[@phumlanindlovu5653]

@seperada Now that I think of it, I also have it during summers

[@samr6408]

My first was also when I was seven. Felt weird being so young, glad to hear someone else experienced the same

[@noonoo26594]

I’m going to need to rewatch this on a regular basis. I’ll push through my madness one day. Thanks for the perspective shift

[@meghana.2.11]

hey, you yes, you take a moment breathe relax its gonna be okay. i don't know what's going on in your life right now but trust me when i say things will get better. they will. never lose hope. stay strong. you are beautiful. you are worth it. you are amazing. and don't you ever, ever let anyone tell you different. keep fighting. you will make it out of this. because... you are strong and the world needs you.

[@lutherorluth]

thank you

[@WhiskyGravy]

😌🙏💕 backatcha

[@futurethewolf5624]

If I started choking I wouldn't notice, but if I started thinking of school I panic.

[@BenCadorette]

“Dad if everything dies what’s the point?”-me at 10…. My poor parents.

[@TheLonelyFoot]

dude. insanely well made. my deepest salutations to you, fellow human

[@tanwar6944]

I'm halfway in and I have to say, this video is one of the best concise explanation of topics too complex to be expressed accurately and really hard to find the inter relations between. You covered literally everything that I think about on a daily basis and I can't wait to finish this video. I wish I could hang this video on my wall.

[@icansaveher]

i watched this three times just to ground myself before actually understanding the video and i feel so much better this brought me ten minutes of peace in this crisis that lasts dreadfully

[@kismeteors]

this is slightly off topic, but it is very admirable how you present sponsorships. even if it is something im not interested in buying, you make me care for the product/service. kudos, hehe ;D

[@lynxurfriend421]

You went through all of that discussion to arrive back to the same conclusion, "Don't let the risk of dying stop you from being alive."

[@diegoaespitia]

ive had an existential crisis when i was 19. it can completely shatter ur world view. it wasnt until my late 20s that i figured out what i wanted in life and it gave me some sort of meaning.

[@felipao2134]

I'm 19 and I'm having my first one now

[@malint886]

@@felipao2134me too :(

[@qwertypnk9401]

The way you managed to put it into words is impressive and fabulous. Thank you, sir!

[@Supernionra]

I used to have this issue years ago, but recently I have solved it with the mindset that I am both nothing and something, as everything is relative in time and space

[@XanderGimbel]

really needed this right now, thanks mr sisyphus

[@ZStrelok]

I think this is one of the most important and well made videos so far. Love your work

[@MuXu96]

Many months of thinking revolve around this video for me.. I just can't stop thinking of this and how we all deny.. it's hard to find someone to talk about this and in the end that's also pointless. But I try to push through this, I'm not a sad man, but this though just keeps staying with me. Great video.

[@dieazme]

push through brother we got this. I felt alone but scrolling through these comments helped.

[@MuXu96]

@@dieazme just saw this, still pushing lol but yeah we got this. Still not sad but this is a hard phase in my life

[@dieazme]

@@MuXu96 im chilling now i dont really care anymore lol i sometimes think about it but doesnt cause me to panic

[@busybee1923]

I think I'm finally getting over my crazy anxiety over the fact that I'll die. I've decided that the only way to comfort myself on the daily is that I'll be ready when I die, I'll be tired and I'll embrace the moment. Not the best reassurance, but it's the only realistic solution that has calmed me down. I've been dreading my deaths for months on end, the thought has woken me up every other night just to make my heart sink and my eyes water until morning. I'm young, but it goes by faster the older you get, and I'm already working, I'm prepared for adulthood before college. It was stupid of me to want to grow up faster, now I focus too much on work, which isn't even worth it in the end. Just something we have to do.

[@trissi3103]

Your words describe how I feel very well at the moment...

[@DacLMK]

Ahh, existential crisis, my only friend. I've been under existential crisis for aalmost three years now, and I'll probably continue to be until I die.

[@wsellias7360]

Damn, very good timing on your video. I very much needed this. I love the ending.

[@katattack907]

Really beautifully done. Thanks for pointing me toward Becker! I've been meaning to read him for a while but I'm going through a bit of a rough patch so I might just bump him up the list to regain a little perspective.

[@west_8189]

Man is a strange creature indeed. The human conditions ultimate fate seems so absurd, and contradictory to our nature. But although it does come with much anxiety, I am content with being an transitory instance of complexity (sometimes :D).

[@zuhar2526]

“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” ― Confucius,

[@SiniBANG]

I just finished watching The Good Place and this vid suddenly shows up in my recommendations. This made me remember the existential crisis I had back in 2018 when my mom had a stroke, amplifying the depression I already had before. It was a wild ride for me, funny enough I went through the 5 stages of grief when I died inside.

[@socraticignorance851]

I love your easy-to-digest Phil. Im glad I kept this tab open for like 2 weeks

[@ireneahumada5025]

This video came in a very good moment tbh. Now that the first year of university has finished I have found myself with an iquantifiable amount of time in my hands that I feel like I'm wasting, I feel without purpouse, so this came in a very good time.

[@Alx1u]

The Denial of Death has changed my life. It allowed me intellectualize my condition, and then the Book Staring at the Sun allowed me to face my problems. Staring at the Sun is just a psychologist talking about interactions with his patients surrounding death anxiety, and reading about other people walk through that process allowed my to slowly and painfully face my problems. Try it out if you are interested in this stuff, also don't be afraid to skim over parts that are difficult in the Denial of Death. There is always more to understand when you read the book a second, third, or more times.

[@TheBeatlesfan013]

Beautiful video. I love the general aesthetic and especially the writing. I rarely feel the urge to comment but you got me to.

[@makigztt5726]

I've been feeling quite bad the last couple days, and this video is strangely reaffirming and calming

[@felixaubert7322]

I clicked on this video thinking I wasn't having an existential crisis and now I'm not sure. I've been thinking about death a lot recently, with a friend of mine passing in a car accident not so long ago, the first time I've lost someone close to me, idk quite what to make of it yet. I think I'm okay with existence being what it is and I think I'm pretty aware of who I am and what I do in life, what I want. But the fact that it can all end in the matter of seconds because I'm not careful enough on the road. The fact that the same could happen to anyone in my family or anyone I hold dear is fucking terrifying. Idk how to stop thinking about it at random times throughout the day, in school, at home, even on the drive between. I doubt venting on here is gonna make any difference at all, as I've been thinking about it for weeks without finding an end to it, but I guess it is nice getting it into words.

[@Cavehole]

Words are all we got my friend

[@blackfoxgames4431]

You can always end it all, it's easy

[@felixaubert7322]

@@blackfoxgames4431 Okay?

[@thatbachus]

@@blackfoxgames4431 but like why?

[@ramennoodle5478]

don’t you think we have a purpose in this life? The fact that our eyebrows are above our eyes shows that we have a purpose in this life as our eyebrows protect our eyes from sweat which contains salt, if it keeps getting into our eyes it will damage it. This shows that the creator, whoever created this universe and us, is the most wise. Similarly, the fact that our eyes are in front of our faces not behind them shows the wisdom of the creator. Imagine if our eyes were behind us, how would we walk? Our nose being above our mouth again, shows the wisdom of the creator as it inables us to smell our food before eating it. So ask yourself this question. “Does it make sense for the one who created this world, who is the most wise, to make us for no reason? With no purpose?” The answer is of course “no”. When we look at the sky and the earth, the alteration between night and day, we will come to realise that all of this did not come about for no reason. .I can explain to you the purpose of your life if you want if this makes sense to you and you want me to explain then reply I will explain it all if you want. With complete logic. I can explain completely. Thanks for reading Have a good day

[@cremebrulee2484]

I don’t know about other people but I handle an existential crisis quite well it comes maybe ruins my day maybe even two days and then it goes I feel like it gives me time to reflect on myself. I always move on and feel better afterwards.

[@fridginators]

Thanks 55, needed this one today 💜

[@RodLanDiaz]

Hey, just wanted to say: I've seen several videos of yours, and they're great. You're awesome at what you do and I haven't found anyone else that presents this type of content in the way you do. Also, I've been suffering from chronical anxiety and depression, so this video helps... a lot. Thank you.

[@thebarelyfunnyguy]

An existential crisis kinda sucks, you could be laughing with your friends, then the thought “im gonna die” pops in your head, and ruins the whole day.

[@elsaaforges]

I think I was born with an existential crisis, and do you know when time stood still? During 2020 covid quarantine. No social contact and owning 100% of my time made me so happy I couldn’t believe it was even possible. Aside of that, Schopenhauer, as a man and philosopher, is a great companion and solace when you feel life is meaningless. It is indeed, but Schopenhauer is always so insightful and witty and yet profound that it’s really like having someone that truly understands you. It is also of great help music, especially Schubert. The pain in his music is so deep and moving that he always makes me cry and feel alive. It would be better not to be born, but philosophy and music are a great solace.

[@pavementpounder7502]

Profound work, and love the retro video style. Well done.

[@SmoltingWassie]

This video was very helpful, as someone constantly called a narcissist, I can now rebuttal that with I have no self worth therefore cannot be narcissistic.

[@radiostarsareback]

We are in this together. Try to open some space for your feelings. Don't fight them. Nothing lasts forever. It might seems like you'll never feel "normal" again, but you will grow out of this experience. Don't forget: whatever you experience is normal and even necessary for your growth. Talk to a friend if you can, do some exercise, meditate, and take it day by day. You survived another day. Well done! 🙂

[@shrchan5695]

You described exactly what i am feeling

[@randomwasabi6354]

right after therapy too, damn

[@TheNotSneakyNinjaa]

your format and script always feel so original but personable

[@loumoon7660]

It’s not death that scares me but everything else in between

[@_helium_]

This basically summarizes a mushroom trip I had a few months ago

[@Drawland2012]

Hey man, love your content. Would really enjoy a video on the science of evil you mentioned during this one

[@thesimplicitylifestyle]

I love this channel! Extremely thoughtful and informative!

[@pomberorajy]

The introvert description was a punch in my face.

[@marijnpelkmans1338]

same haha - i see now i run from everything

[@UltraSilverRobot]

I want to change and not be exactly that description man. Its just so hard for me to maintain meaningful friendships

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

Our anxiety of death and our desire to transcend it through patriotism or having a family proves that said anxiety is an evolutionary adaptation that makes us not want to waste time and too get down to the business of securing the next generation.

[@rinpaisys]

I have been having an existential crisis from the moment I was conceived. So ~30 years give or take.

[@greywolfe6941]

I'd venture to say your condition is indicative of an 'old soul'.

[@greywolfe6941]

@Sick Disgusting Freak; perhaps they're just not quite there yet. My restlessness prevailed for over 50 years.

[@alecrochon3531]

@Sick Disgusting Freak cope

[@TheWildSunflower-eu2eb]

Again another amazing video!!! It’s so cool that you create these video and you’re such a knowledgeable person. Thank you for sharing your perspective, thoughts, knowledge and feelings. I’m a big fan !!

[@SadSpartacus]

I am not afraid of dying exactly. I am terrified of wasting my life though. If I died today it would be so crushing because my life feels like nothing but squandered opportunity.

[@SpaceNugget-qm1fx]

Its strange because i always thought myself your gonna die oneday and i was ok with that but last year I became to fear it and it haunts me now

[@trissi3103]

I feel the same way. Has it gotten better for you?

[@lawyerxsinxdarkky]

An award to you for disproving my negative outtake of “this probably won’t really help how I feel but hey let’s give it a shot” and being worth my 15 minutes

[@Bananaman74799]

This is a thought that I’ve always had and to know that other people think about this too is cool, really wasn’t expecting there to be a book on it

[@applebutter1151]

I know right