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This could go both ways so trigger warning to people with depression and if you’re religious we will not agree on this, but I find a great liberation and happiness from knowing that in the grand scheme of things, none of it really matters. Humans are not the end all be all species of the universe. Our solar system is one of theoretically infinite solar systems.
Make the world beautiful, or don’t. At the end of the day, or even a million years, it doesn’t really matter. Just do what makes you happy and live your life the way you want to live it, Hopefully you’ll let others live the way they want to, but again, it doesn’t really matter what you or anybody else does. Rocks in space won’t remember any of us.
Please don’t take this piece of advice literally
I know that some degenerates are already like “Hans ! Heat up ze furnace !”, reading this
If you zoom out, it doesn’t matter.
It matters to me, and that's all that matters
Yup
Ah yes, the Morty Smith existential nihilism branch of philosophy.
One could devolve into nihilistic ideologies and behavior or use the liberation to fuel their passions. Either way, it doesn’t matter so just do whatever.