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Ask HN: How do you make sense of life?
- nurettin 6y agoAs with everything, I watch others try to do it, then I take whatever I think is applicable and leave out the parts which appears cringy.
- davehcker 6y agoAny tips on how you generate/develop the 'cringy', 'applicable' filters? Is that also something you'd say learned by watching others?
- nurettin 6y agoApplicable is easy, it must repeatedly yield results which have long-term utility. Cringy is harder. I guess it's a personal preference thing. But that's human isn't it?
- lalo2302 6y agoFor me it is looking for books that tackle that question and find what clicks with me and my context. When the feeling starts to go away, I just repeat. Find your drive and just keep it going. It can be anything, your career, your house, having fun, games, anything, literally anything.
- davehcker 6y agoMy regimen is kind of the same. But then when I look at things like myself, the world, human nature, the stars, etc. my brain just freezes. I'm willing to accept even a 'fuzzy' sense of meaning, but it should be coherent. Every now and then I'm taunted by this pursuit and sometimes it just cripples me.
- badabadadook 6y agoSense is a very personal thing, if at all. There is no intrinsic sense after all. Though you could make an argument for biological sense- survival and all that jazz. I live minimalistically and try to keep busy until 1) either the time passes and I go through all the motions, or 2) I get an certain enough opportunity to end it all.