Does anybody feel depressed because they can't figure out what life is?

Please tell me that at one point you've felt depressed because you couldn't figure it all out. Tell me that you've been depressed because you've gone around and around in circles. Tell me that you've been depressed because you've realized that this is a bizarre world with no answers.

Please tell me this, tell me that you've thought and felt. Tell me you aren't all cyborgs. Don't give me a reason to live just tell me if you have or have not ever felt depressed over this absurd situation. Please. This is ridiculous I can't find anybody who's ever felt depressed over this, why is everyone only depressed over stuff made up by society that they don't even know exists. Why don't they care about their meaningless life.

 

Perhaps you haven't found anyone who has been depressed over it because it's not depressing. So what if life is intrinsically meaningless and it isn't written in the sky somewhere what we all should be doing now and aspiring to in the future. So what if once we die our minds are most likely erased into oblivion? Life is indeed absurd, so embrace absurdity. Laugh a little. Laugh a lot. Laughing feels good. Life feels good. External reality may not have any answers for it is cold and indifferent, but you have answers; they're going to come from yourself and be light and warmth unto the universe.

Camus says it better than I can.

http://dbanach.com/sisyphus.htm

 

Yeah man everyone gets depressed time to time over the meaningless of life ppl say well u have to make ur own meaning but that just implies that there is no thru meaning. Universe is huge I am small no matter what I do with my life in a 100 or in 1000... years no one will care I could love everyone I meat or kill them it just does not matter in the long run.


U feel alone in this strange world haaaa welcome to the club, after a little time this though just fades in to the background and everyone gets on with there life. Its ur choice to be depressed or happy about this blank canvas its ether a point of nothingness or a point of endless possibilities.

 

The point of life is that life is pointless. there is no meaning or purpose. This can be daunting at first but you have to realize it sets you free. In the absence of higher powers you are free yo define your own existance. People are conditioned to care about new clothes, cars and credit cards. They don't look at the bigger stuff because it's depressing.

The fact that you are looking at the big stuff speaks volumes about the type of person you are, and that is definatley a good thing. I wouldn't be so depressed, you've figured it all out

 

I used to get very depressed about the meaninglessness and absurdity of life, sometimes to the point of feeling like I couldn't even get out of bed in the morning and keep living. I still get depressed from time to time when something happens to bring me face to face with that meaninglessness and absurdity.

The world is both meaningless and absurd, and so Stabby is right when he says that the answers must come from you. I know you said you weren't looking for advice but I just want to say that I overcame much of my depression by realizing that it is up to me to bring meaning to my world.

 

Depressed? No, it's liberating! There is NO HOPE of making sense of life. Everyone is completely delusional. You're not going to find an answer to relate to everyone and have it be really meaningful to everyone...except through science. Only undeniable reality can completely alter everyone.

So you can force yourself upon everyone unashamedly.

 

You're kinda right. Life is a giant circle.

Learning, growing, erasing, learning, growing, erasing. We change who we are, and forget who we were, as well as old and new behaviors. We are never "right", only right given our understanding. Maybe depressing at times when you lose your "self" within this bigger perspective. But you gotta realize that all there is is the "self", and that you are creation itself.

 

I think about it all of the time. Daily, but it doesn't always get me down. That would be just as futile as actually figuring things out.

 

Welcome to the club, im 21 and live in a college town everyone around here just wantes to get fucked up and have meaningless sex and focus on the external material world. Everyone thinks im crazy around here for sitting around alone, hell sometimes i think i am crazy but what you have to understand is that the mojority of people in american especially are so wrapped up in themselves that anything external is imposible to comprehend. Alls i do is smoke nugget and try to stay away from the painful meaningless existance that is everyday life in westerized civilazation. I still find myself getting caught up in the drama and life of the town, but just know that you are one of the few who actually cares and stay true to yourself. You will get it just have hope, just know that in the future you will be better off for your deep thought and consideration and rise above the norm. Our generation is clueless and materialistic, by haveing awareness of this you are already on a better path than 90% of people, and whatever you do dont numb your pain its there for a reason, your depression/ feeling are there for a reason, listen to yourself and rise above the rest.

Hope i could help, feel free to PM anytime to talk its nice to have people to relate to

Much love
-Dis

 

i agree. its not that you end up where you started and everything seems pointless.

always be learning along the way. then apply your new understanding to the age old questions

if you want an example of depressing circumstances heres one:

when i sit down to watch television and a sitcom is on. especially ones with laugh-track. i get depressed when see that none of it is funny but i'm supposed to believe that it is. the laugh-track is meant to hold your hand saying "okay, this is funny. you can laugh now"

that's what makes me think of people as cyborgs because they can't think for themselves

 

yeag, I agree about getting depressed about the pointlessness of it all...trying to find meaning. My therapist says I have a bad attitude to think we are all screwed, but hey that is how it feels.
peace anywhoo
Delfynasa

 

I have known, deeply, the depression you describe. The fact that you care about "meaningless life," " this absurd situation," "a bizarre world with no answers," or are "depressed because you couldn't figure it all out" is actually a good thing. It says that, somehow, you know there IS meaning to be found in all of this. Meaning that you can and, hopefully, will experience, even if it is difficult to find others who know what you feel.

Take your time, enjoy life, experience all that is good. But whatever you do, don't settle for anything that offers to replace the meaning you seek. Experience the real thing.

 

yes, lets all congradulate ourselves on our ability to lie to ourselves.
sorry. its not about "meaning" its about not screwing it up for each other.
which is something we CAN learn how to do. we can't expect more of others then the examples we set for them ourselves. but we CAN do that.
and if we want to avoid depression, the thing to avoid doing is having expectations.
and we can get along just fine without those entirely.
hope we can get, because there are always invisible friends and there is reality's diversity itself, which is immune to even the most powerful attempts to oppose or undo.

this kind of use of the word "meaning" is itself meaningless.

though if one is trying to say something by it that isn't, well that's fine too, and i'm not wishing to tread on anyone. but i really believe people create their own depressing frustrations that way. completely needlessly.