Hey there everyone! Been thinking about my life and my current circumstances recently and wanted to see if anyone else here felt the same way or had similar experiences.
How is anyone happy? I ask myself this all the time…It can't be just me who feels like life is utterly pointless. For context I'm a college aged male in the US and I'm struggling to find a reason to even go forward with living. It seems that my whole point of existence is just to graduate school and then commit to working a 40hr 9-5 work week until I'm old and tired. I know that this must be the reality for some, if not most people — we need wage-slaves to keep the world spinning— but what part of this equation is even enjoyable? This is all life is for so many people their existence is just to work, have a family and then die. Is that it?
I know everyone wants to be special but the harsh reality is that few of us really are or ever will be. You're just another cog in the machine, replaceable in every way and when you eventually die you will have changed nothing and left little to no impact on anyone besides a select few.
Whats even worse about this is that it feels like nowadays with social media we are constantly taunted by those who have somehow escaped this cycle of working for little to nothing while you have to struggle so you can afford a roof over your head and basic means to live. It fills me with so much jealousy, why are there people who have been blessed with having everything while it seems that I am destined to just be another nothing, a background character, just another average joe.
I almost cant look at social media anymore because it feels like just endless droves of people who are living a life that will never be a reality to me. I will never be that good looking, or that rich, or have that many friends. And I understand that social media isn't completely a real reflection of people's lives but it does give you snapshots into the moments people have and it seems like I will ever have these moments. That dream house I see online will always be a dream, same goes for that dream car, dream romantic partner, or whatever else one might desire. Weirdly I'm not so sure these things would even bring me real long term happiness but I guess I will probably never really know. I know life isn't fair but why not quit if you're losing?
Some things you can't win, you just weren't lucky enough and thats the game, thats life. I'll never look how I would like to, I'll never be able to achieve the dreams I always desired, I'll never be happy with who I am. It just doesn't seem worth it. Is there something I am missing? Does anyone else know because there's no way millions of people can be happy with living like this. To me life just seems to be a continuous stream of failures and disappointments.
How is anyone happy? I ask myself this all the time…It can't be just me who feels like life is utterly pointless. For context I'm a college aged male in the US and I'm struggling to find a reason to even go forward with living. It seems that my whole point of existence is just to graduate school and then commit to working a 40hr 9-5 work week until I'm old and tired. I know that this must be the reality for some, if not most people — we need wage-slaves to keep the world spinning— but what part of this equation is even enjoyable? This is all life is for so many people their existence is just to work, have a family and then die. Is that it?
I know everyone wants to be special but the harsh reality is that few of us really are or ever will be. You're just another cog in the machine, replaceable in every way and when you eventually die you will have changed nothing and left little to no impact on anyone besides a select few.
Whats even worse about this is that it feels like nowadays with social media we are constantly taunted by those who have somehow escaped this cycle of working for little to nothing while you have to struggle so you can afford a roof over your head and basic means to live. It fills me with so much jealousy, why are there people who have been blessed with having everything while it seems that I am destined to just be another nothing, a background character, just another average joe.
I almost cant look at social media anymore because it feels like just endless droves of people who are living a life that will never be a reality to me. I will never be that good looking, or that rich, or have that many friends. And I understand that social media isn't completely a real reflection of people's lives but it does give you snapshots into the moments people have and it seems like I will ever have these moments. That dream house I see online will always be a dream, same goes for that dream car, dream romantic partner, or whatever else one might desire. Weirdly I'm not so sure these things would even bring me real long term happiness but I guess I will probably never really know. I know life isn't fair but why not quit if you're losing?
Some things you can't win, you just weren't lucky enough and thats the game, thats life. I'll never look how I would like to, I'll never be able to achieve the dreams I always desired, I'll never be happy with who I am. It just doesn't seem worth it. Is there something I am missing? Does anyone else know because there's no way millions of people can be happy with living like this. To me life just seems to be a continuous stream of failures and disappointments.
