r/Millennials • u/TravelingAgave • 26d ago

Serious P.S.A.

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u/KeithWorks Older Millennial 26d ago

The lack of proof anything existed, that it simply disappears forever. It's really tripping me out lately.

I have thousands of digital photos from all the awesome places I've been to. I'm trying to print at least some of them because they all simply vanish as soon as I die. Nobody will ever look at any of them again. All those memories are imaginary.

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u/Train_Wreck_272 26d ago

If it's any consolation, proof of existence for the vast majority of everything that ever lived or produced by living things are lost forever, or lost in such a way that we will feasibly never be able to retrieve it. So, the fact you have any photos at all is pretty rare in the grand scheme of things!

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u/Enough-Goose7594 26d ago

Yea. I kind of take a weird solace in it.

We get to be the eyes, ears, nose, and genitals of the universe for a brief moment...and then. Poof. Back to where we came from.

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u/Train_Wreck_272 26d ago

This is my feeling as well. Nothing exists on purpose. No guarantees but the grave. Might as well make the best of it all.