Does the meaninglessness of life bother you?

[spoons]

I don't know why anyone pursues anything besides pleasure. Pursuing careers and status, raising kids, religion (where the goal is to live forever doing what all day exactly?) is just wasteful energy. Why should anyone bother to do anything above the bare minimum?

I don't know. I don't think life is pointless. I think it can be a very beautiful and meaningful thing. It's dependent on the cards your dealt and in this economy/state of the world, it's hard to find meaning. When we focus on the bad we only see the bad. But I can see how mindlessly following the same routine for 70 years can be not ideal for some people. I don't know, the world I have to live in makes me more upset than the actual living part.

 

[josephk]

this concern with meaningless & futility has a long history. I can highly recommend a book by Alan R Pratt called "The Dark Side - thoughts on the futility of life from the ancient greeks to the present". Its not the cheeriest read granted but it goes to show that we are not alone in the way we think , indeed, its nothing new

 

[Coolvin]

The pointlessness does sometimes bother me, but not really to wanting to end things on its own. Actually, I do enjoy thinking about this stuff, which ironically can keep me going.

I could live with the pointlessness ok if things weren't becoming so destroyed for me in my reality of existence.

 

[Tobacco]

Having no objective meaning in this life hurts me greatly. And not everyone can have local meaning (local meaning is a term I first heard from David Benatar). Not everyone can be a doctor, computer scientist, president, CEO. Finding meaning would suddenly make all the suffering worthwhile.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

Referring to the headline, I actually never had any thoughts whether my life is meaningless or not. I had plans for my own life but due to circumstances I may not be able to achieve the plans anymore. That bothers me more than meaninglessness of life. Life could be so easy.

 

[Ambivalent1]

Having no objective meaning in this life hurts me greatly. And not everyone can have local meaning (local meaning is a term I first heard from David Benatar). Not everyone can be a doctor, computer scientist, president, CEO. Finding meaning would suddenly make all the suffering worthwhile.

It's a pointless battle we're compelled to fight. It's sick and insane.