| CaptainExplosion said: (..) And I'm 31, I shouldn't be with my parents anymore. (..) |
If it's any consolation, I'm a bit older than you still, and I also live "at home". In my case it's because homes here in my country cost like a billion Euro per square meter, so it's virtually impossible for a single person to get anything anywhere except if you happen to bring a big pile of cash.
| CaptainExplosion said: (..) Nothing we do on this shit stain of a planet matters anyway. |
This is ironically the right mindset to get out of your current predicament though. Once you realise that everything that happens is exceptionally meaningless relative to the life of this planet or the history of our species and to the wellbeing of yourself, you will become more relaxed, will more easily let things slide, will think and ponder about less things and thus become happier in the process. You don't need to worry about stuff, the 'big picture', because none of it matters.
The human species is exceptionally selfish in thinking there can be anything that we do that actually impacts the history of the world (the world, not our species) in any meaningful way; 99.9%, which is not an exaggeration, of all species that have existed in the past are already extinct, it doesn't matter if Pandas die now or a hundred years from now (except maybe to Ka-pi); things like oil or diamonds will naturally replenish over time because they are made through natural processes; the climate has been volatile for the entire planet's existence, there have been periods colder than now but also periods much warmer than now and even the entire shape of the landmasses changes over time. And this was all without our interference. Our entire existence as a species is a mere blink of an eye relative to the life of this planet, so minor that it won't notice, and its existence in turn is a mere blink of an eye relative to the life of the universe. Once we're gone, the planet will go on and recover in a relatively short time, as if we've never been here, until it gets swallowed by the sun.
Even on a smaller scale, the scale of the human species, nothing you do matters. History is history, and what happens, happens. Know that history repeats itself, because certain actions are just in human nature to do due to how we have evolved over the last couple million years. No singular person has, or can have, enough influence to shape the course of our history all by themselves or deny what nature has made us to be. Humans are individuals after all, and they will each do what they want to do and follow their instincts like any animal. There have been hundreds of pandemics in the past, and plenty were worse than the one we just passed. Really, it is every person for themselves, and you only need to think about yourself, how you think you yourself can survive best, like how every other person, both human and every other animal that's alive, even the Saudis, on this planet has to do and does. Sure it may be easier for one than for the other, and for a lot of them it will never work out, mostly due to luck or lack thereof, but that doesn't change anything for your own life.
This doesn't mean you should't be kind to others on a personal level, or should just engage in animal cruelty or something, because why would you, things like this only make life harder for yourself, and it's yourself you should be thinking about. Not caring might seem depressing or selfish, but it's not, it's liberating. Trust me.
Last edited by S.Peelman - on 23 May 2022
