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I Am Going Through An Existential Crisis

Can't sleep, back to the existential "crisis" again. It's strange when you literally can't think of a decent reason to exist and you aren't depressed. I stick around for family because i'm sort of obliged to, not that i'd even want to kill myself either but I have no idea what to do with this life.

If your biological drive is to procreate and you don't care about that or are unable to feel that towards other people then the scientific reason is out of the picture.
Then that leaves passions/drives, but if you doubt yourself too much and feel neutral in general then these are also out of the question outside of personal hobbies.

Outside of that you'd just be living for endorphin releases and mindlessly consuming foods/culture/media in order to either fill a void or to find some kind of meaning from it. It's partly what the consumption of drugs does, it creates a feedback loop of goals and rewards and replaces passion where there was or was not.
For some though it's a reason to even get up in the morning or bother, it fills the space where there is nothing. Damaging? yes but for some there's a feeling of nothing to lose.

Couldn't really get into drugs again now, but i ask myself sometimes why..
I can't trust people by basic human nature, I can't "love" anyone like i once did, and i don't care about a lot of things in life most people care about and if i imagine a life in the future it tends to be one that is depicted culturally as being desirable when in reality it seems either impossible or implausable.

Thinking sucks sometimes..
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Loveallot12 · 26-30, F
Would you ever fill that hole with God. I’m still going through this I don’t even like anything I used to like. I look at the heavens like when can you come and take me away. I literally have been burned by every friend I ever had and my husband doesn’t want me anymore. I don’t know where my dad is and if he is even alive.I have 5 brothers and non of them talk to me
Bebop · 31-35, M
@Loveallot12 But i know the feeling, i'm very jaded about things like love and trust that are very near and dear to us. I think once we lose that hope that's when we start to wonder what the point is.
But it's in those moments where we change and transform, it's like the analogy of the pheonix. It rises from the ashes anew and burns off all that was holding it down and led it there.

All our pain is a means for transformation :) even though I myself also get lost in it a lot of the time.
Loveallot12 · 26-30, F
Right now because I got saved I have this feeling that God doesn’t want me to leave my husband or God will get angry with me but really so much has happened we both sleep in separate areas of the house and are both just holding each other up. He won’t touch me or kiss me or be my friend but he says he cares about me and he is my friend. Idk why we can’t just write a separation agreement together and plan to go our separate ways together just so we both can be happy. I also look to him to help write the separation because he takes care of me without him I have no money or a place to live. I set myself back being a stay st home mom for years I don’t have any degree or anything to my name with out him. I’m stupid@Bebop
Bebop · 31-35, M
@Loveallot12 I think even if it's bad for us we can get attached to things that are toxic for us as we become dependent on them.
That is a tough situation, but you've gotta do what's best for you.
Not what god wants, or anyone else, but you. It's harder when we have to think of that kind of stuff for ourselves because it's easier to give that responsibility to someone or something else.

I think from the sounds of it there's just so much anonymity between the two of you that you can't communicate with eachother at all, like there's this wall. I don't wanna try to give advice on this as I don't have a clue, maybe you can help each other transition though.

You could start working if you wanted to, get a loan and go to college or do something like an access course or whatever they call them in the US. Just throwing some possibilites out there, food for thought

 
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