>>7293365This is a really nice one, as an aspiring musician this is something that people rarely realize is as pervasive as it is. We can get so focused on our directors cut of our lives that we treat the highlight reels we get from other people as if that's just their entire life and it isn't.
>>7294040Hate to be that guy but this. When you start growing up, you go from being sort of content to gradually realizing just how much everything sucks an how meaningless it all is and a lot of people get stuck there around the ages of 17 - 20. But there really is a lot beyond nihilism, it's just hard to see sometimes because nihilism is this big empty black hole of nothing by definition. It does truly feel that there's nowhere left to go but to anyone reading this, there is and getting there isn't always easy but it's well worth pushing through for. That's not to say I'm there or that any of us really "get" there, more that nihilism is like a wall and past that, an infinite tunnel. The wall is blocking you for now but once you break past it, there's a long road of meaninglessness ahead but it isn't the same as nihilism, it's more refined and positive.
Really, I think we all need to stop thinking now and then and spend a few moments thinking about the way things are in as objective a way as we can. The world in an inherently, objectively interesting place. Maybe the goal of life shouldn't be to be happy, but to be interested.
Hang in there anons, you'll get through whatever you're struggling with right now and the struggle won't end but if it did, that would just be boring. At that point, when there genuinely is nothing left to fix and suffer through, you might as well actually end it all but nobody will ever actually get to that point.
