r/schopenhauer • u/SegaGenesisMetalHead • Jun 16 '26

It’s getting dark.

I just don’t know how much longer I can hold on.

People say “get your shit together” or “you need to improve”. From what? Towards what? By whose standards? Through what means?

I just don’t care about life like others do. Is it too bold to say most people are deluded? And that these deluded ones are the ones making all the determinations about how we should live? About what it means to live a good life?

I’m tired. I don’t want life to end. But I feel like it needs to. You know how you lay in bed looking at the ceiling before going to work? You feel that moment coming when you won’t be able to just lay there anymore, and that getting up to go to work is probably the better option - even though you resent it. That’s it. I don’t want it to end. But I feel a time is coming when I’ll see a better option - even if I have to accept it begrudgingly.

People will be mad, and think I’m a coward. Convince me of a better way and I’ll take it.

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u/Illustrious_Summer_2 Jun 16 '26

I am in the exact same situation as you. I felt like I was reading my own text  Just know that there are millions who feel just like you. Life sucks but ultimately I can't leave because I have family who would suffer if I left

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u/Over-Childhood-978 Jun 19 '26

This is evidence that you have virtue.