Thoughts On Life Many Have to Endure

Thoughts On Life Many Have to Endure

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Much of life is but a trial of endurance with no objective meaning. You go through suffering, loneliness, bills, depression and so on, with no clear purpose other than what you either find or create for yourself. If you don't create meaning/purpose for yourself, much of what you have to endure may appear meaningless and vain, leading you to ask yourself: "What is it all for?".

What started my journey as a philosopher was the depression I felt as a child when I discovered nihilism, and realized, very early on, that life has no objective meaning; that we're all specks of dust in a huge, careless universe, and that if we won't forge meaning for ourselves, we will stay that way.

Meaning and purpose, in a way, are a form of distraction from the fact that our lives are inherently meaningless. They ease on our endurance and allow us to better endure the cold, harsh world for longer than otherwise. Thus, for the sake of survival, it is important that we bind ourselves to a source of meaning/purpose, so our journey in this life won't feel like it's vain, even if it is, objectively, vain.

Society uses us as energy batteries to extract our time, our attention and our money for its own gain, and in return it provides you what you need to survive another day. However, you have to continue serving society every working day of your life if you want to continue be provided with what you need to survive. And in the nearing end of your life, if you're lucky, you're finally relieved of the need to serve society, and only then most people are truly free from the shackles of the enslaving, narcissistic society.

Much of the global economy is built on buying things you don't need to impress people you don't like. Much of your lifespan is spent pretending you're someone you're not and bootlicking to maintain your position and/or to get higher in the social ladder of society. Authenticity is repulsed and uncalled for, and the fact that life is objectively meaningless has no place in a fake hell realm where you're expected to express passion for what you're doing whether or not you have it.

Such a depressing life is what most have to endure in order to survive, and much of life revolves around chasing digital numbers on a screen, AKA money, until you're retired. I won't be surprised if many who do that and are successful at doing that are empty and sad inside, even if they pretend like they are not.

I am not surprised that such a life many have to endure, makes people want to give up on it. If you won't create substance of your own for it, you're doomed to live a substance-less life, chasing digital numbers and having to cater to people you don't necessarily care about, but might pretend that you do.

I couldn't bare being an office drone so I became a philosopher instead. I worked hard on contributing selflessly to society to make it better, only to be deemed a narcissist and an arrogant man. Unfortunately, many people cannot comprehend selfless acts, and may view people who act selflessly like they have an ulterior motive, or are just there for their own self-glorification or money. Indeed, this world revolves around self-interest, and that is why it might be beyond repair no matter how much I'll want to rectify it.

Now that people read less and less, have decreased attention spans and are low in critical thinking, I sometimes wonder why I myself keep on being a philosopher when I can lead a normal life as an unemployed retiree. But then I remember that doing this keeps my beloved happy, so I continue at it no matter how useless writing articles might feel to me in the age of AI and brain-rot.

Eventually, all the people I love will go away and most likely I'll be completely alone in the world, having only a philosophy blog as my source of purpose. By then, I wonder if anyone will bother to even read. I like contributing selflessly, even if I am horribly misunderstood by this selfish world. At least I take solace in the fact that I don't have to live life like most of humanity does, but at this point, I don't expect to be understood by them when understanding is a capacity not everyone necessarily has.

I hope my blog can serve as a beacon of meaning and substance people can find to help them move on in this hard, difficult world. I understand that life is hard for many, no matter how hard they work and no matter how heavy their struggles are. I'm not surprised that some people have it so hard that they are tempted to take out their own lives. I'm not encouraging for it, but I find the rationale behind it sensible. You either find a reason to keep going or you are likelier to just give up.

In this unjust world you won't necessarily be rewarded for doing the right thing or for being good. Thus I am not surprised that there is a big lack of goodness in this world, and that most people operate according to their selfish needs. I choose to be good because it gives me a sense of purpose, but I don't expect to be rewarded for it. The world doesn't owe anyone fairness, and that is why I prefer to be alone and away from said world; to protect myself from its harshness. I understand that most people do not have that option, so I just wish for them success and that they won't have to suffer so much catering to a difficult, cold and indifferent world.

In a rectified world people won't feel the temptation to give up. They would have their purpose and would be able to survive with minimal difficulty. But this isn't a rectified world. This is a world where survival can be difficult for many with no purpose guaranteed. If there is a purpose to the life most people have to endure, then it is to increase shareholder value. But doing this is not what gives people a sense of justification nor satisfaction to their own existence. Slavery hasn't gone, it just adapted itself to modern times, and most people are, technically, slaves to a system that doesn't care about them and that will discard them the moment they are able to in order to save money on expanses.

Just hang in there, everyone. Find your reason to continue existing, and life might feel less hard than it already is.