I’ve been going through a total existential crisis for awhile. I’m terrified of death. Both for myself and my loved ones. And because of this pandemic, every time I feel weird I get a panic attack. I’ve run through every single religion desperate to find some way to find peace with my mortality, but nothing felt right. Is there any philosophy out there that can help me find peace?
So this comment gets posted a lot in these discussions, but I don’t think it makes any fucking sense at all.
Like, sure I wasn’t alive before being born, but because of that, I didn’t know what being alive was. I didn’t exist. Now that I do, I’m not so keen on losing that awareness.
It’s one of those statements that maybe sounds wise, but is pretty fucking useless, IMO. No offense intended, it just doesn’t work for me.
