When I'm out of copes, what else is there to life? Simply eat, drink, sleep and work?>just [vaguely sports thing] bro>just [latest cope fad] bro>just [more expensive vacation] bro
>>34003950Ad Astra per aspira or some shit. Achieve apotheosis. The only thing there is is people. We don’t know why, we don’t know how but, there’s people right now.
>>34003974>just do [thing] broHow is that not a cope? Why do you assume I haven't chased my dreams, achieved my dreams and found a dead end at the end of my dreams?>just find better dreams broCope
>>34003950As a conscious human being with agency you get to determine what you want to do, what is valuable to you, what your north star is and how and when to pursue those things. The only real cope is excusing yourself from doing anything because you think it's a cope.
>>34003995>Why do you assume I haven't chased my dreams, achieved my dreams and found a dead end at the end of my dreams?Because you're here asking for something to do with your time and your reply is a snarky pessimistic sidestep of the question.
>>34003995What dream did you chase and fulfil?
>>34003995Well, have you done any of these things?Usually meaningful things don't feel like a cope but rather as something that's inherent to you
>>34004029>>34004031It's a really common theme on /adv/ when anons say they really did do the thing but when you press them for details they're always reticent because either they didn't do the thing or they're withholding enough information to keep them from looking like a dishonest retard. It's a classic hallmark of lies and deceit. It's like asking a murderer where they were the night of murder and they suddenly become defense and evasive. Also if he replies to this post it won't be with any details disproving my point, he'll turn the argument into semantics about lying. I've been here way too long.
>>34003950What things have you done feel like an empty cope to you? The simple explanation for this is you have some combination of learned helplessness/low t/ and terminal pessimism.
>>34004038This anon knows ball.Not to mention, our dear OP also hasn't even explained and is just tip-toeing around what it is he's coping and complaining about. You can't help people like this.
>>34004029>>34004031What is "meaningful"?For the longest time I lived my life and did things. What things?I managed to work abroadI went to visit the places I wantedI got marriedI brought a houseFamily and relations are good, there are no real drama or tragediesJob is fine, pay is decent, no commute, working here for a decade so it's not all badI eat healthy, wife cooks, house and clothes are clean, I got nothing to complain aboutI lift and do cardio, I visit parents and do stuff togetherA nice vacation a yearNo major debtSpare time to read books, manga and write poetryDeveloping an interest in making wineAnd more, I won't sit here and enumerate all the things that I've done, tried, failed at or thought about.These are all things that I thought for the longest time that make up the bulk of life. All normal things, all things to be achieved, all things that bring meaning to life, things inherent to me. I never did anything that didn't feel right with me, or things that brought shame to me.But lately it all feels extremely pointless, a cope that is exactly that. Things that we do to cope with our undeniable existence, because existence in itself is unending and unbearable. For example why do we even eat? Because our bodies require so, to function, and to cope with that we have created cooking methods to make better and better food. It's a cope. Food is a cope.Apply that to everything else and see the patters. Even having children is a cope to give life "meaning" where there isn't any. Nothing is really real. Nothing exists except ourselves, and how we make that existence of ourselves bearable for the length of time that we exist, is by coping with various methods.I really, really hate the question "what things have you done that feel like a cope to you?" And when I list the things, it return I invariably get "well you haven't done this or that [thing] or haven't done the correct [thing]" which is all a variation of the sake thing; cope some more.
>>34004139Sorry for the typos, you get the gist.To deal with the copes of life, people give the same answers; cope some more. If the things you've done aren't good, do other things. And when they turn out to be just a different shade of cope? Well, do some more things. And so on, turn your life into an unending search for the one thing, the one cope that is real, that isn't a cope, that isn't just another distraction from the unbearable fact of our existence.
>>34004139You get to decide what’s meaningful. When everything feels hollow to you, that’s called depression. You probably have something wrong internally with you. Medically, physically spiritually, need more information to know for sure. Also, when you’re alone with your own thoughts, and bored you think you’ll come to the deepest most insightful insights about the nature of reality and become becomes cynical about life see through everything like an angsty teen teenager finding out Thanksgiving is about killing Indians and think they’re all true but the real problem is you’re just hungry or not getting enough sunlight or something.
>>34004139Sounds like you’re having a midlife crisis. How long have you felt this way?
>>34004172All my life if I really dig down into the issueThe only difference is that when I was a kid, I thought [things] would end, and new [things] will begin. Bad times come, bad times go. Good times come, good times go. Things have a beginning and and end, and you get to do new things that are truly new. Now I realize that existence is uniform and endless, bad times and good times are merely different degrees of stimuli, but at the most primal level, existence simply is. Not good nor bad, but continued existence for all eternity.I realized that most people go to hell anyway, but hell is not this exaggerated fire and brimstone with a pitchfork devil, but merely a continued form of uniform and monotonous existence with endlessly looping lows. Kinda like this life already is. Just and endless variation of the same things.
>>34004139How is food a cope? A cope for what?
>>34004190Sounds like you have major depression, chronic stress and burnout. Was your developmental years full of constant striving? Also, Do you want to feel happy hale holy and healthy?
>>34004190Existential angst is just a cope for being bored and stressed.
>>34003950Try creating things and sharing your creations with others, that has brought a lot of meaning to my life.
>>34003950Feed your soul.I don't mean religion (though that's a possibility). I mean find SOMETHING that takes you away, even temporarily, from the mundane world and makes you feel good inside.It could be religion - many people deeply enjoy church services. It could be music*, art*, literature*, philosophy*, etc. *creating or watching/listening It could be sports (participating or watching) or travel or good works or falling in love.Find the thing that doesn't just kill time, but takes you out of time
>>34004284It's not something that get's pointed out enough but people who are deathly serious about >omg dont you realize life has no meaningor>WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY are all deeply depressed (duh) and maladaptive souls. When you're tired, frustrated, or even just hungry, you'll think you've come to the DEEPEST and REALEST existential truth about existence when in reality you just haven't been eating or sleeping right or you've been constantly doing something unhealthy like grinding nonstop and your brain is trying to rationalize your misery instead of being solution oriented for a problem. It's part of the reason that most trite advice doesn't really work because depressed people either don't want to be better or completely unaware of what's making them sick and miserable. Really OP just came here to blogpost because he doesn't know what else to do, most than half of what he say are just rants of teenage level philosophical angst.
>>34004691BasedOP is being a cuck to life
