Discussion Why do you feel like nothing matters?

[KattinKai!]

Explaining the question more, it's about traumatic situations you've been through. Why do you feel like your experiences don't matter?

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

to me nothing matters except me avoiding long lasting constant unbearable pain and my suicide asap.

nobody can convince me anything else really matters. what other thing that we could do today will matter in 130 years? in 500 years, or in a 1000 years , a million years? a trillion years? nothing

why do i have to live another second or do anything they say is so important good or fun ? i don't to me none of that matters , only what i named above that's it.

 

[FoxSauce]

Maybe cuz I know the suffering wont end. No matter how hard I try to better, people wont think so. I keep pulling myself back.

My emotions are just to much for me to handle and where im expected to be in life. The ups and downs are just gonna repeat and its exhausting.

Ik it very dumb to let people influence your life its really tiring, you try to do everything that you can yet is not enough.

Its comforting in a way I wont be a burden to anyone else just be at peace but I fear death yet I dont wanna hurt people more if I go through with it. Which changes from time to time.

Idk if this is a valid reason.

 

[blooming]

Cause nothing is in our control including what happens around us. I have a chronic condition that could kill me one day. I will be alive in misery till my very last day. I end up going to the hospital every 4-6 months, I take a daily medication routine to keep everyone around me happy. I feel like I've lost control of my life since being diagnosed with this illness - it's been almost 4 years with it now.

I think it won't matter for me cause at the end of the day, life goes on. It went on before and it'll go on after. People continue to move forward and your presence slowly fades. 50-100 years from now, no one will even care to remember me or won't be around to do so.

 

[starboy2k]

because at my most vulnerable and impressionable times of my life I was treated like shit, not just by strangers but by people I share blood with…and that cycle repeats over and over again.

an earth shattering asteroid can hit this planet tomorrow morning and I wouldn't give a single fuck. nothing matters to me at this point

 

[Chemi]

I have a kinda different view on this. Every small thing matters so much to my head that I crave the feeling of nothing mattering at all anymore. Well, and there aren't many ways to achieve that besides CTB. At least none that worked for me in the past

 

[Arvayn]

For me, the sentiment is a lot more intellectualized and existential than it is emotional. I think that, in the relative sense, absolutely everything matters in relation to other things at least a little bit, even if it's something as tiny and insignificant as a speck of dust. In the absolute sense, nothing matters, because this universe will be brought to a grinding halt by entropy until the only thing left is "empty" matter.
The idea of nothingness in general is something that is a lot more alien to our reality than people give it credit for. True nothingness does not exist in this world. As a matter of fact, the very concept is so paradoxical that even being able to name it or describe any feature of it means that it's not nothing. It eludes words.

So yes, I do think that nothing matters. But I also think that nothing doesn't matter. And that they're both true at the same time. Weird duality, isn't it?

 

[beyond.space]

i believe that if you look very deep into biology, chemistry and every science i guess, you would find that almost everything in the universe, especially life, is so perfect and precise that basically, every little atom ends up having a meaning, or a purpose, rather. every single time you breathe, billions of cells, let's say, wheels turn flawlessly in your perfectly engineered system, making every single pattern, bond, chemical reaction in this mechanism possible and needed for you to live another second.

if we're talking about the meaning of life, there is none, but there is also everything and everyone that has a point in this equation that keeps life thriving. we have no free will (in my acception, not in the real sense), because everything is the effect of a cause, and the cause is just a sum of circumstances we find ourselves in. so no matter what we do or believe, our given meaning is that we are here to reproduce and keep the cycle going. we are, as our cells, tiny wheels in the universe that spin so the mechanism of life can go on.

if we're talking about other trivial stuff, they don't matter, nothing in what we do matters. there's no divine point to any of this. it's all just coping mechanisms and distractions. we can give meaning to them, as in a sort of language to help us understand how our own little worlds work and what makes us happy, but they don't have an intrinsic meaning. now, it depends on how you look at it, because every single fucking thing in existence actually matters in every way perceivable, because every little decision we make, like a butterfly effect kind of thing, can be argued that it affects everything else in life's cycle, causing it to keep going no matter what. even if we ctb, we can cause certain people to become prolifers, let's say, further reproducing and so on.

it's a really complex subject and this is just my opinion on it.

 

[HangMan123]

Well, I'm not religious and I don't believe in an afterlife. So in my perspective, the Earth will be swallowed up by the sun and that's the end of things. And it's not just the earth; eventually, there will be nothing left, just empty space.
So what's the point of anything if everything will be destroyed? Nothing. It's kinda freeing and depressing at the same time.
Anyways, I realize that this doesn't stem from any traumatic experiences, so sorry about that.