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These short personal blogs make some absolute statement about Existence and how Things Are in order to get across the point that they are not in that great of a
by keybored 2y ago
These short personal blogs make some absolute statement about Existence and how Things Are in order to get across the point that they are not in that great of a space right now.
> Life is cruel. Life is sad. Life is lonely. Sometimes, at home, I just feel like crying.
The point is not to make serious rational argument that we are alone or that being alone is how to live. For us to then counter-argue as if they were seriously adopting this attitude as a conscious life strategy while of a sound-and-stable mind.
So I can’t discern whether your response is tone-deaf or if you’re just doing the usual HN CV hustling, but literal CV this time.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y agoNah. Just fishing for the typical HN veiled insult. Thanks. Much appreciated.
- keybored 2y agoIt’s not just about you. The submitter is likely to be the OP given their history. “Life is meaningless.” (Unrelated example to illustrate the point.) This means different things depending the context, like if the person was depressed or if they were a professional philosopher.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y agoWhich is kind of why I didn't actually address their points, and simply added my own experience, from what their post brought up in me, without trying to analyze them (besides that they are young). Their grief, and their anxiety, are not really something that I can realistically appreciate, and I doubt there's much I could say, that would make anything better. I do appreciate their sharing vulnerably, and have no intentions of exacerbating their personal pain. Figuring people out, from extremely small sample sizes, is a skill that I sometimes think that I have, but, in reality, completely lack.