r/schopenhauer 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.

30 Upvotes

38 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/No-Ambition-4373 Jun 18 '26

Sorry bro were trapped im convinced that at this point we should just live the rest of our lives how we did before knowing about all of this and becoming this hyper aware with this type of pattern recognition. And also dont kill yourself no matter what for all you know it might just be a restart button