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> For some people conscious existence is too burdensome, uncomfortable, full of anxiety, outright maddening or some combination thereof. Reading this gives me
by babbeloski 10y ago
> For some people conscious existence is too burdensome, uncomfortable, full of anxiety, outright maddening or some combination thereof.
Reading this gives me immediate anxiety. I have times during the day where just seeing things and being alive is almost unreal, like I can't deal with, and the thought of doing this for N number of years more is overwhelming. As I'm getting older life is just even more surreal, I sometimes wonder if I have the mental fortitude to make it to old age. This isn't a cry for help, you just touched a nerve with that sentence.
- iampherocity 10y agoPhew, I'm not alone. Word for word, to the letter.
- eternalban 10y agoProbably more common than you think. One old saw has it that when a man is starving he forgets even the urgent promptings of a full bladder. A newer old saw claims that religion is the opiate of the masses (with its uncoined analog regarding fetishism & the ruling classes). The quoted OP railed against wasted time and effort, but his views on the despiritualization of the modern man are not clear. A non contemporary would likely diagnose a 'spiritual crisis' for the existential angst of the uncommon non-aristocratic unbelieving modern man.
- thomble 10y agoYou're not alone. I sometimes wake up at night, with a sudden realization and shock that I am existing.