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Posted Monday, May 23, 2022
2y
INFP
Leo
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How do you cope with being alive and being a human?
Cause sometimes i just wish i could completely vanish, completely withdraw from the world and interacting with it cause nothing makes sense Like if we all want to be happy in some form or another why do we spend our lives with things that make us miserable just because it has always been like that I just sometimes wish i could live in a cottage in the woods and talk to blueberry bushes in my free time and nothing else
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Nathan
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INTJ
Aquarius
Honestly, every existential crisis is a little different. Maybe that's why I still haven't gotten very good at dealing with them. There does seem to be a pattern of sorts though. Usually, if I'm feeling downtrodden and miserable, it's because I'm not being sufficiently honest with myself. Let me explain with an example. Not too long ago, I was making a lot of money doing a job that's really easy and doesn't take up all that much of my time. But with every passing week I was struggling more and more to get the work done and I couldn't figure out why. I came up with all of these possible answers and potential solutions and eventually took an entire month off from working in the hope that I would be ready to keep going when the month was over. Nothing worked. When the month was over, I still struggled to get the work done. But this time I had the perspective of a month off to clear my head, and I realized the answer was simple - I didn't want to do it anymore. Don't get me wrong, I wanted the money. But I didn't need it. I have enough money lying around that I could slack off for a while. And why should I do something I dont want to do for money? I finally gave myself enough credit to acknowledge that I have enough skill in a ton of areas to do something I actually want to do for money instead. So now I'm ostensibly in the middle of a career transition, only there's a problem - the thing I decided I wanted to do for money instead? I haven't started. Why? Well, with the benefit of perspective it's obvious. The fantasy of getting paid to do that thing is currently more appealing than the inevitably dreary reality of it. So instead I've taken much fewer hours at work, doing like 5 hours of work a week to make juuuuust enough to not be digging into my savings, and spending the rest of my time slacking off playing video games. And say what you will about being lazy, but lazy people sure do tend to often seem happier. Sooner or later I'll get sick of working 5 hours a week at the thing I hate and actually start doing something else so I dont run out of money, but for now I'm in stasis and my brain will not abide shifting from it.
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Matthew
2y
INTJ
Well ... why can't you live in a cottage in the woods and talk to blueberry bushes in your free time? What is stopping you from living that dream? If you have a goal in mind, you can work towards that goal. And if the picture you painted is your goal - then you can work toward that. It may take some creativity and it may take a lot of work. But if that's what you want ... I say go for it. Just don't make your goal "happiness," because I find that happiness is fleeting and I don't usually know what would make me happy. (edited)
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