Oh hello, you're alive. Great, welcome to
the world, have a seat because you can't walk yet. You're gonna spend the next few
years in the psychedelic world of colors that make no sense but it's alright
because you can pee yourself and somebody will probably sort it out for you but
don't get used to it, soon they'll be expecting you to use the toilet, so make
the most of it, and not long after that you have to go to a building where they'll make
you learn stuff and prove you know it like times tables and the alphabet and whatnot. Maybe you still think you are the center
of the world and you can probably get away with that for a while - some people
do their entire lives - but eventually you're going to start pissing other kids off so
you probably gonna have to learn some humility soon, too. Got it? Good, all right. Then you're gonna
go to another building where the tests are a bit harder and the subjects are more
intense. They try to teach you stuff like trigonometry and iambic pentameter without
ever actually explaining what you can use it for but don't worry, just memorize it
and spit it out and forget it the second you walk out of the exam hall. By now
you're probably getting weird urges to do stuff to your classmates that you never
really wanted to do before and now you're gonna have to play a game for
the rest of your life where you really want this kind of closeness with people
but sometimes not everybody feels mutually, so you're going to have to hide it. Welcome to the world of dating and
body language and sex. Yeah, you're gonna like the last one, it's going to dictate your life
and most of the films you watch and book you read for some time to come
whether you realize it or not. Oh you're finished spitting out all that
rote memorization well great let's go to university. You need to if you want to earn lots of
money which is obviously very important because well, well it just is shut up! Look, everyone's happy when they're rich. Pick
a subject, not the humanities you idiot, something real like law or maths. I didn't spent 18
years raising fucking philosophy major cogito ergo broke all the time. Oh you
finished? Great, well it's off to the companies for you then. Tell them you're a
people person and you have excellent organizational skills and you work well in a
team. Don't mention your actual passions for
landscape gardening or music, they don't give a shit. just come off as generic as possible,
stick it out for about 30 years, you'll make good money in time. Only the sex thing is probably getting a
little empty by now and you're craving some kind of actual connection with the
opposite sex or same sex if that's your thing. Jesus, you thought getting people to take
their clothes off is difficult, you try finding a partner to fall in love with. And
even then, what if they get bored or you get bored or they go off with the milkman or
something, well sorry you're just gonna have to risk it like everyone else. Like
life, actually. Some people are dead by your age but
you're not. No, you're still sad in a pit of your own mediocrity feeling dull and
stepped on by life, standing on a rock that's spinning at 9,000 miles an hour around
a gas giant in an infinite universe, a product of 13 billion years of cosmic evolution but
no, no, definitely you carry on being bored and feeling like crap. And you now you feel worse
because you know how great you should feel about everything, amazed and happy
all the time and yet you still feel like shit. Well,
that's biology. Well, maybe your friend's getting rich or getting married or getting
pregnant or something and you're poor and single and maybe you don't want kids, it doesn't matter what Carl Sagan says,
you don't feel any sense of wonder at all, you feel like shit, you don't want eloquent prose about how
beautiful the cosmos is you want money to live comfortably or you want to be in
love and maybe you want children. Try books, there's
quite a few dead guys who are willing to claim they can explain what you're doing
here and how you can be happy but loads of them just contradict each other and to
be honest it all comes down to you. You're going to have to decide whether
you believe in God or want to eat meat or support abortion or feel that life
has intrinsic meaning and whatever you do people, will shit on your opinions and
tell you you're delusional. Sorry, it's a game with no winners. And
now you're old and maybe you've got money and maybe you haven't, same with a
partner and child, and now you're two steps from death and you spend a lot of time
thinking about what you could have done and Jennifer Smith in the fields behind
your parents' house when you were both 17 and how you should've said I love you and instead you said look I'm sorry I'm
just not in the best place right now, come on, it's getting cold. Well, no use thinking about it now. Jennifer is
probably old and doddery just like you are. Not much time left. Well, I guess i'll just do it all again
differently the next time. Oh, there - there isn't a next time? Oh that - that was it? Shit, I'd wish I had known because if I'd
known that this was the one chance I have to live as a talking monkey in
space at the best point in history as the smartest species on the planet using fucking magic on a daily basis
like the internet and jet planes and smartphones with access to all human
knowledge at my fingertips and the chance to talk about how cool being
alive is I might have not worried so much about what other people thought and their shitty
lives, and I might have just spent what little time there was making good art or doing good science or falling in love or just not being a dick. Oh well, if only I'd known. Which I did
but i just don't really want to think about it. Oh humm, so it goes.
For anyone who was wondering, the song in the background is Beethoven's Symphony No.7 in A major op.92 - II, Allegretto
i actually really fucking needed to hear that
Good morning /r/videos!
Welp off to /r/suicidewatch talk to you guys later!
Do you think these sentiments of feeling like you're not getting enough out of life are a product of modern times? Or do you think they might have been around in ancient times as well? Are these sentiments a side effect or consequence of living in today's world of advanced technology and relative safety (as in not having to worry about predators and starvation on a daily basis) or did they always exist? Just a though I suddenly had.
Good Christ what am I doing with my life?
"I didn't spend 18 years raising a fucking philosophy major"
So now I know what my parents really thought about my choice of major....
"Cogito ergo broke all the time" was a great line.
Whenever I see something like this, with the message of "don't waste your time on earth, go be happy", all I can think is how? If I bailed on the system of greed and money and bullshit I'd be fishing in the Amazon tomorrow. And by next Wednesday I'd be out of money starving in some South American ghetto. You can't just do what makes you happy, that's not how life works.
Humility would fix all of this. Seems like everyone today thinks they are special and that their life should have some great meaning. How about focus on enjoying a simple life and making the little things the ones we enjoy.