What you’re describing is pretty common in people who’ve felt detached or disillusioned with life. Nihilism—seeing everything as meaningless—can feel like a shield, but it also sends signals to others that you’re disengaged, which makes jobs and relationships harder.

The key isn’t to force yourself to suddenly “care about everything.” It’s to **care strategically**, about things that actually matter to your goals. You can treat life like a video game with rules and mechanics: the point isn’t to feel cosmic purpose, it’s to **play effectively to get rewards** (money, skills, relationships) while minimizing unnecessary suffering.

Start with small, concrete commitments: show up on time, follow through on tasks, respond respectfully in conversations. You don’t need to feel deep passion for it—just act consistently. Over time, acting “as if you care” often produces real motivation and connection, because your brain and social environment respond to consistent effort.

For dating, it’s similar: engage with curiosity and respect, even if you don’t feel some grand meaning in it. Learn social cues, listen actively, and respond thoughtfully. People read engagement, not your inner philosophy.

You don’t need to discard nihilism entirely; you just need to **layer functionality on top of it**. Treat caring as a skill or a tool, not a belief. Acting “as if” gives the practical results that make you employable and datable, even if your existential view stays skeptical.

If you want, I can give a few **concrete exercises to “act like you care” in daily life** that really change how people perceive you.

>>33890340
>How do I stop being a nihilist
You don't
>more employable and datable?
You can do coke or xanax before interviews, dates, etc
>People can tell that I don't give a fuck when we speak
No, really, you are paranoid. Just smile more etc. Practice in a mirror instead of posting here.

>>33890340
you start to see that nihilism is a social programming psychological operation and that everything in modern life is a psyop to turn you away from Christianity by evil occultists who believe the serpent in the garden was the illuminator of humanity

secret societies run everything

>>33890425
before you reject the truth, theres a reason the apple on the back of your phone has a bite out of it.

technology is a tool to build the antichrist system

>>33890340
Do nihilism harder and be finished with it. It is purely selfish to believe that nothing means anything when we are gone, when everyone else is still around.

>>33890340
If you were really nihilistic, you wouldn’t care about employment or dating.

>>33890340
Nihilism is not about apathy; it’s about defining your own standards. For nietzche, this was his differentiation between the ubermensch and the untermench: that if there is no god or objective morality, then you have the freedom to live life on your own terms. But even given that assumption, let’s say that you decide on your own that drinking is bad for you but you still drink….that makes you an untermench. Set the rules for your life and LIVE BY THEM, that is what an ubermench is in nihilism.

>>33890340

I recommend looking into absurdism- something Camus identified with. It helped me a lot in grappling with the world around me as well as life's monotony and meaninglessness. It's something I still reference to-date. Hope that helps.