
I can't even begin to conceive the meaning and point to life anymore.
I feel like I want to live, and not die, but I also feel like to find true worth and reason would be like beating a video game. Then it's boring and you want to beat a different one. I tell you there is no point in that. There has to be a final point, and not just a round the merry go round fun fair approach to it all. Then again, I said that's what I feel, and since when have feelings been truly accurate?
I could get a lot more complicated then that, and I have, just with other people. I've come to notice that being a pessimist isn't a job most want, and on top of that, most people don't even want to hear about it. I'm just good enough to get their attention, and then send them away, more negative then they've ever needed to be with my witty cynicism about the pointlessness of life and why my existence isn't one of purposeful meaning as an attachment to their gloom.
It is also unconceivable, to me, that anyone would want to listen. People do and I see it, but when they are done for just a while, cause that's all it takes, I still manage to reiterate how they are wasting their time.
I'm getting more and more confused each day, and that's kind of the point of this entry. To say that I am confused is to make it so simple, it doesn't carry enough meaning and momentum then. What I've said above should, in some way, show the confusion.
The real point of this letter is actually created very recently in my mind. I had something of an argument with my dad, and it was about the things I've been discussing with everyone lately, and in this entry.
I'm sure you've noticed things seem pretty pointless to me. Things do seem pretty pointless but that is not what concerns me. What concerns me is that to be pointless, does NOT deserve the title that existance has to offer. I don't want to be alive if I don't have a purpose, a point, some kind of meaning.
I don't care if you say I've got one somewhere, cause I see it just the same. The difference is I know that it's not good enough. No one else seems to understand that.
Now then, to the bone of this entry. I don't feel like I want to die, I don't want to and I most certainly don't want to kill myself and I've said it OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN. I've never stopped believe it.
I want to wake up tomorrow to all those pointless points that define my life, I do, but to keep seeing them is something I wish not to bear. Pointless points may be pointless points but they do have a point and that point is to point out there is not point. When there is no point, reason for existence ceases.
In case some of you aren't following let me spell it out for you. I have no point, so I should not be alive.
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It's hard to say, but it is what I feel, no matter how wrong.
I'm just wondering, that's all, if I don't want to die, but there seems to be no reason to live...how long will it be before I crack under the pressure of the hammer? When will I die in the embryonic fluid still left in my egg as I am unable to break free of the shell?
I don't want to die. Period. But I'm sick of trying to figure out why I don't want to.
It's like being happy, I always get concerned when I'm happy. I can never TRULY prove why I am happy, but I can ALWAYS prove why I shouldn't be.
Laterz.
Comments
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maybe you would enjoy reading Sartre, if you like to read philosophy.
Why do you think you should not be alive if there is no point to it? There isn't a point to being dead either, is there? So you can just as well be alive.
As for me, I find my points in the small things, related to the people around me. like, to name one particular example, I am looking forward to organize that lecture at my school with a queer topic, so to start creating some queer intellectual life here. (that is the point of it: to create some queer culture here.) On a grand scale, that point might vanish and seem trivial or invalid, but that grand-scale perspective seriously can't touch me very much.
And, furthermore "I am worthy of everything that happens to me." (Rosi Braidotti)
We have all been injured, profoundly. (Donna Haraway)
I Am Out, Therefore I Am. (Okay, mostly.)
Pessimism
Remember pessimism is the same as realism. To debate such philosophical ideas you must stay emotionally out of it. A view point (a pessimistic one) sure, but no emotional interest. Otherwise the confusion is depressing
"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suf-fer-ing"
Hah--I know the feeling. For
Hah--I know the feeling. For the longest time, I wanted things to just stop. I didn't want to die, but I considered killing myself just because of all the bad stuff that was happening in my life. I have since realized that nothing is that bad...one just needs to be persistant and hopeful. Hope--that is what keeps me going. Anyway...if you need someone to talk to, feel free to do so--I'm always here to help out if I can.
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Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
Hello
This is an interesting post, so I thought I'd comment with my thoughts on what I think the point to life is. I don't think there is one purpose that we as a species are here. No one definite answer as to why we exist, why we are here. As boring as it may sound I think we are just here because evolution has brought the world to this point.We all just exist, and everyone just has to find there own purpose for living. I don't think there is a reason as to why each and everyone of us are here. We just have to find one for ourselves, and if you don't look you will never find it. Also may I recommend a book to you? Its called "Impossibility" by John D Barrow. Its a very interesting read which you may enjoy.Take Care.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent-Eleanor Roosevelt
I wondered this a few years ago.
It did end up extending as far as, so why don't I just die, then? but I never really got around to killing myself. I really did want to live, it turned out, if only because I knew that sometime life would get better.
It has for me. It's taken maybe four years, but a summer of service and coming out and getting past all sort of lines (gender, race, orientation), that I had been self-conscious about before, I realized what there is in life: people. We are here to help each other. Even just having a conversation with some random person you barely know as you're walking down the hall is helping. It makes life feel better, too.
So yeah. That sounds really cheezy, but it's ingrained in me, and it's made me feel happy.
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless; there is too much work to do.--Dorothy Day
Thanks guys...
You've all dished out some really good advice and I am thankful. I think I've gotten off this track for now, I'll tell more in my next journal entry so stay tuned for it.
The thinks
If the dishes are cleaned but come out with crud on them, is it clean crud or dirty crud?