> Assuming it is, though, how would one know whether they are or not? You don't have to know it, you just have to believe enough to pursue something. You can s

> Assuming it is, though, how would one know whether they are or not? You don't have to know it, you just have to believe enough to pursue something. You can sit around saying "nothing I do matters," but if the end result of that is doing nothing, then surely that kind of thinking would matter even less than any alternative. >Of course you might also be saying it lightly, e.g. feel "more or less" the same everyday, as opposed to always exactly the same, and given that nothing especially nice or bad has happened to you and those you know all this time. I feel a good number of emotions, they just don't color my whole day. I don't have bad days, basically. There are doubts, joys, pains, and irritations, but that's pretty much true of every day.