Hey internet!
So, a phrase I bring up quite a lot is:
And the other day, I tweeted:
Probably shouldn't have.
And a lot of you guys were like:
I didn't know if I wanted to make a video about this,
because it's kind of dense and... aaah
But as I guess it's kind of important,
I'm just gonna go ahead and do this, okay
And then afterwords, we can move on.
Right.
I've noticed, whenever I mention or tweet about this,
There's always some misunderstanding, and people say:
"Pfh, existential crisis. But Dan, you have a great job,
Your life is fine-- what's the problem?"
Yeah, I have a job, and it's great,
And my life is generally great and fantastic,
And I'm very happy--
That is the typical quarter-life crisis that everybody experiences
That you're thinking of.
An existential crisis
Is when you begin to question the meaning of existence.
Your mind sinks through a black hole to the center of the universe,
And you start falling through a spiral of thoughts,
On such fun topics as:
The inevitability of death
The crushing loneliness of realizing all humans inherently are,
And will die alone
The absurd meaninglessness of the universe,
And that as far as we know, there is no reason for,
Or purpose to human existence,
"So yeah, okay, you're thinking about some deep things,
But why is it a big deal?"
The reason existential crises are dangerous,
is when you fall into them,
they are very hard to get out of.
Because when you're debating the
purpose of reality itself.
Whatever you have to do in your actual life
suddenly seems very unimportant.
You can't just do your everyday life
when you're busy questioning your entire existence.
Example:
Making some cereal...
Why do i exist?
Life is pointless.
Day ruined why would you continue making cereal in an infinite universe where
your life is pointless?
It happens with everything even videos for me:
Right! Time to make a video... super fun...
One day I and everyone I love is going to be dead...
We're all so alone in the universe...
It's very inconvenient suddenly having your life shut down, thinking about these
things that make nothing else seem important, but, because there's no real
answers or conclusions to these questions
there's no telling how long you're going to be trapped in this state so. But this here
right now is more to explain what it is to you okay so don't worry about me
because I'm fine. All of this death, loneliness, meaningless stuff
I accept it I think it's great. For me it was the fear of freedom
this is the idea that when you realize you're in total control of your life and
you have the power to do anything you want to do as I spoke about it I in my
meaning of life video which sounds great and liberating and inspiring
it's also terrifying as it means at some point you have to decide what you are
doing with your one terribly short human life
what are your goals what are your dreams what do you want to achieve by the time
you've died
I don't know what the goal is to change the world to just live a quiet
unassuming life where I'm simply content with my existence
I don't know they say ignorance is bliss and I do one day hope my life would be more
enjoyably simple if I didn't think about these things every day but at the same
time I get quite a satisfying feeling of enlightenment out of my own self
awareness which feels quite content as well as depressing so if you have ever found
yourself having an existential crisis or maybe this video has just made you aware
of all these things that i've totally ruined your life soz
here's my advice we can't run away from these things because until a
time-traveling scientists from the future appears and explains to us why the
universe exists or Jesus descends from a cloud and go to chill out guys it's all
very simple
we will never know the answers to these questions so there's
not really much point dwelling on it
I learn that there's a rock and roll awesomeness about how blunt the universe
is and you just have to roll with that you have to take this freedom and
control of your destiny that you realized you've had and find it empowering
and exciting and don't waste any time in a slum because something I know that I
can't run away from is no one cares
the universe doesn't care the world isn't going to stop or slow down or
change just for you and your little problems
time is ticking away so whatever it is you just have to deal with it and go
you decide what you want to achieve what you love what you dream and come up with
your own meaning embrace the void and have the courage to exist
there we go you asked for it that was totally awful well we all that out of
the way so i could go back to what I was doing you can go back to doing what
you're doing and we can both move on for now
yo if you enjoyed this and you want to see more of me waffling then
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already to be told when I upload a new video this video is a spiritual
successor to two other videos I've made the college dropout when first existential
crisis began as I quit University and the meaning of life when this time last
year I became aware of my own freedom and encourage everybody to make the most
of their lives and now this waffly mess is the culmination of the fear that
freedom gave me
hopefully this is the last chapter and I just hammered the nails in the coffin
I guess we'll see what my life is like this time next autumn
it's a pretty exciting reason to stay subscribed ok I hope you're all doing
good and i will see you next week because until a time traveling *bleep*
a time traveling *bleep*
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