#nihilsm

From Lexi Drumonde's video on Hopepunk.

"You,” he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain."

why do so many people act like there needs to be a great purpose behind our existence? or there is some grand reason why I am here. No, acknowledging the realness of Nihilism doesn't always have to make one super pessimistic. There is almost 200 billion trillion stars in this universe. If you consider the bigger picture it won't make a difference if our sun with it's whole solar system just disappears tomorrow. On a large scale, things are devoid of meaning and purpose SO WHAT? whether its truly meaningless or not, if I disappear today I won't be able to enjoy another sunset, pet another cute street cat, won't get to hang out with my favorite people anymore, won't be able read another interesting book or try a new noodles recipe or travel to a new place and I won't be able to learn so many other things I want to learn -- and these things are more than enough to inspire me to keep on living. I don't really care about the meaning of life or purpose of our existence anymore.

"I believe I will never be forgotten cause I will never be remembered."

Schopenhauer ha estudiado el pesimismo; pero Hamlet es quien lo inventó. El mundo se ha vuelto triste porque, en el pasado, una marioneta fue melancólica. El nihilista, ese extraño mártir que no tiene fe, que va a la hoguera sin entusiasmo y muere por lo que no cree, es un producto puramente literario. Fue inventado por Turguénev y completado por Dostoievski. Que Robespierre salió de las páginas de Rousseau es tan cierto como que el Palacio del Pueblo se levantó sobre los restos de una novela. La literatura se adelanta siempre a la Vida. No la copia, sino que la modela a su antojo. El siglo diecinueve, tal como lo conocemos, es en absoluto una invención de Balzac.