Essay Life really is just drudgery

[Tabula Rasa]

I guess if you're a normalfag you can just take life at face value and enjoy the bread and circuses, but if you're the more introspective type you're always tacitly aware to an extent that day-to-day living is a state of toil and ennui most of the time.

Generally you're always below or remaining just at baseline in terms of mood, and the highs in life are often few and short-lived.

The stresses of life don't help much either, once you become an adult you're expected to fend for yourself and secure basic resources for yourself, which if you belong in the average to low-income socio-economic class like most people do, it's a goal with no end in sight.

I don't think there's such a thing as a 'happy life' tbh, positive periods in life will always inevitably reverse at some point, coming and receding like the tide.

I think you just have to continually make adjustments to your lifestyle to where the baseline of your current life equates to what could be considered a high point in previous periods in your life.

The hedonic treadmill never ends, does it not?

 

[Apollo]

I guess if you're a normalfag you can just take life at face value and enjoy the bread and circuses, but if you're the more introspective type you're always tacitly aware to an extent that day-to-day living is being in a state of toil and ennui most of the time.

Generally you're always below or remaining just at baseline in terms of mood, and the highs in life are often fleeting and short-lived.

The stresses of life don't help much either, once you become an adult you're expected to fend for yourself and secure basic resources for yourself, which if you belong in the average to low-income socio-economic class like most people do, it's a goal with no end in sight.

I don't think there's such a thing as a 'happy life' tbh, positive periods in life will always inevitably reverse at some point, coming and receding like the tides.

I think you just have to continually make adjustments to your lifestyle to where the baseline of your current life equates to what could be considered a high point in previous periods in your life.

The hedonic treadmill never ends, doesn't it?

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[Enju]

The wagie life is mundane and repetitive, so is NEET life. There is no winning. What's your ideal world where we experience more highs than lows? or do you think is unachievable?

 

[Tabula Rasa]

The wagie life is mundane and repetitive, so is NEET life. There is no winning. What's your ideal world where we experience more highs than lows? or do you think is unachievable?

there's not really a 'we', it just depends on how you make changes to your own life as an individual.

 

[Enju]

there's not really a 'we', it just depends on how you make changes to your own life as an individual.

Optimally, prioritizing hobbies and learning new skills as a NEET is the best option for me. But the loneliness eats me up inside, but most days I can get through it. The way the system is setup, it's hard to have a good work-life balance, that was what I was trying to get at. Being an endless cog in the system until you're 70, then finally retiring is soul-sucking. Most people manage to get through this draining style of life because they live for something, others drugmaxx. Not everyone is able to make adjustments to their life in spite of this

 

[Tabula Rasa]

Not everyone is able to make adjustments to their life in spite of this

Yeah everyone's circumstance is different and can vary by difficulty. All one can really do is change things that are in their power to control, even if it's something very little.

 

[bell]

Yea I dislike the carrot-on-a-stick view of normalfags. It's always "live for the little things" in order to round out boredom, living from one high to the next and calling that a "good life". I just want to be left alone, but my instincts tell me that I'll be miserable if I keep up at that. So I cruise along and hope that something down the line will cave out or provide me solace which doesn't depend on other people.

Still, I crave novelty any chance I get. It's really sick how the fight against instinct has been pathologized. I can't interact with other people without them telling me that I just need to give in and submit to other people, "biting the mouth that feeds" and that it's not an institutional thing at all, that you're obligated to comply so long as you're born under a flag. "You only live once, so you might as well enjoy it", this is the mindset held by the majority, it's not about curbing or maintaining instinct but maximizing pleasures when you're young to make good memories, which I guess is a nice enough cope for when your bones are creaking in old age.

 

[Asgard]

It's all about one and zeros. Humans will eventually mold and replicate the events from BSG into this physical word (by engineering a new subspecies like the Cylons). They won't be any different from us: 1s and 0s. It's all the same crap, over and over again. I don't know why do I keep feeding myself. I don't see the point of sleeping (beyond the need for washing out cerebrospinal fluid).

Let's hope there's something else after our bodily deaths. Who knows, anything can happen within a trillion-year threshold from now on. I do believe universe will reboot itself after a set number of years (is this the proper measurement unit for representing this human construct known as time?).

 

[xaxs]

Let's hope there's something else after our bodily deaths. Who knows, anything can happen within a trillion-year threshold from now on. I do believe universe will reboot itself after a set number of years (is this the proper measurement unit for representing this human construct known as time?).

Current consensus of physics predicts the expansion will not end. This will cause a big freeze, and all matter will eventually decay or be swallowed up by blackholes. Those will also decay due to Hawking radiation.

So the future after death looks bleak if this is the only universe in existence. But who knows, wouldn't be that surprised if the circus never ends.

 

[Asgard]

wouldn't be that surprised if the circus never ends.

Unironically this is the most probable outcome. This so-called "time" is relative after all, so grab your popcorn and eventually feed the earthworms who will in return feed from your decaying corpse.

Let's hope I don't end up as a "non-sentient" being. Actually, who am I? Is there any "I" to begin with? Or rather a collective of biological beings within an ecosystem contributing for an end goal? Hmh... "consciousness"...

 

[EYES_OF_THE_WORLD]

I guess if you're a normalfag you can just take life at face value and enjoy the bread and circuses, but if you're the more introspective type you're always tacitly aware to an extent that day-to-day living is a state of toil and ennui most of the time.

Generally you're always below or remaining just at baseline in terms of mood, and the highs in life are often few and short-lived.

The stresses of life don't help much either, once you become an adult you're expected to fend for yourself and secure basic resources for yourself, which if you belong in the average to low-income socio-economic class like most people do, it's a goal with no end in sight.

I don't think there's such a thing as a 'happy life' tbh, positive periods in life will always inevitably reverse at some point, coming and receding like the tide.

I think you just have to continually make adjustments to your lifestyle to where the baseline of your current life equates to what could be considered a high point in previous periods in your life.

The hedonic treadmill never ends, does it not?

I feel like this is why people romanticize iseaki, being sent to the past, living in medieval times, 1800s, etc. Being born there is hell don't get me wrong and I'll never do it (unless the isekai is in a fantasy/sci-fi world, i don't immediately die from the diseases that come from it or have my body fucking obliterated from the different environment, possess some cheat skills and abilities, can speak the languages there, and get a concealment attribute so that the higher ups in that world don't immediately detect me from 3 star systems away and experiment on my ass), but the average individual who gets born there without their memories (or maybe even with them) will have a higher ceiling of happiness imo. I despise religion copers but imagine being in a fight against the enemy and the enemy suddenly dying, imagine truly believing in mysticism and god, having a true ideological belief that is the norm at that time, possessing a community, etc.

Simply put, I think a major part of lack of meaning comes from the fact that we have already brought meaning to all of life. There is no new world to explore, space traveling being the norm is a distant future, and god does not exist. Spiritual pillars that make the world more brighter than it actually is has been fully evaporated from reality, and the stuff that remains will get constant suppression from the materialistic world we live in (the true nature of reality) and the suppression that comes from knowing deep down that all they believe in is false.

 

[Bloxy]

just take life at face value and enjoy the bread and circuses

this is ideal tbh

 

[newsincerity]

here is no new world to explore, space traveling being the norm is a distant future, and god does not exist.

there is a lot to explore-only (((they))) won't let us