Discussion Do you feel like you are not a part of society?

[Nightfoot]

My severe depression has cut me off from society as I am largely bedbound and am presently incapable of positive emotions or enjoyment. Even before, I felt like an alien visitor in society, in part because I think and feel deeply and most people don't relate to that. There is a lot of superficiality in society I've tried to model in order to fit in, but realized I wasn't really being myself so it wasn't something I was interested in or particularly good at.

 

[FoxSauce]

Hmmmmmmmmmm, nah bruh

 

[Nightfoot]

I think that's like a core foundational belief for hundreds of millions of Buddhists buddy.

I was listening to a Buddhist teaching a few years ago and one quote that stood out for me was, "Anything can happen at any time." I've since discovered that "anything" can be worse than I would have imagined could happened to me again, but here I am.

 

[littlecutecorpse]

nah, never felt like i had fitted in w anyone or any group, not even when i was an itty bitty kid. maybe it's because i'm this much of a shithole as a person. and now i can't even meet the standards i have for myself anymore.

 

[Black_Knight]

I literally don't even think society is real so whenever I engage with "it" I'm just mimicking whatever I think other people think I'm supposed to be doing. Apparently very poorly lol.

I don't think I'm all that out there, in fact I try to keep my composure, but I'm clocked as being "crazy" all the time nonetheless.

 

[android]

somehow id rather be an outsider than be an insider.

nah, never felt like i had fitted in w anyone or any group, not even when i was an itty bitty kid. maybe it's because i'm this much of a shithole as a person. and now i can't even meet the standards i have for myself anymore.

I think some wiring is chosen by nature to self-select out of the gene pool. Unfortunately we have to suffer

Consciousness is the enemy

 

[Lucilius]

Absolutely. I am not part of society. Just some weird creature in a temporary commensalist arrangement with it.

 

[PI3.14]

I don't feel like I'm not part of society, I'm in fact not part of society, in every possible aspect.

 

[Pale_Rider]

I know for a fact.