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I don’t know if I should really be putting this under LifeFuel since it’s mainly focused on death... but I don’t know, fuck it. I’m just hoping that my perspective will help everyone else here and maybe even be a nice cope.
My new perspective goes like this: imagine your great grandfather. Most of you probably don’t even know his name and I bet that for the mast majority of you, all of your great grandfathers have already passed away. But look even further up the family tree and think of his father, your great great grandfather. I think it’s safe to say that for all of us, that member of our family is already dead, with very little in the family even remembering him. If, say, the average age your family was born to their parents was around age 20, that means that his father and mother had him at age 20, he had his kids at age 20, and so on. That means that his lifetime was roughly around 100 years ago. So whenever I start feeling really depressed and worthless I just think of his lifetime.
From the day he was born until the day he died, everyone he ever met is dead now and forgotten. Every memory he ever made in school as well as all of his teachers and classmates are gone forever, probably to never be remembered. Every job he worked at, all of his coworkers? Dead. All of the customers that he served? Dead. Hell, even the CEO of the company and everyone he knew, dead. Every memory he ever made in life is now completely forgotten and all that remains of him is a name with no meaning scratched onto a rock somewhere that may have a ready faded or even been destroyed. And if it hasn’t yet, it’s guaranteed that it will. Then it will be as if he never had existed in the first place and his legacy and time on this earth will be lost forever.
This same concept will happen to each of our lives. The top .001% of our generation will be “lucky” enough to have their accomplishments remembered for a brief amount of time after their death. But nobody will ever truely “know” them as people that had met them will.
So if any of you ever feel like life is worthless, just remember that even the happiest of people in the world will soon be nothing. And that in not even that far in the future, the majority of our culture will be changed and forgotten while all of us are dead and gone forever.
My new perspective goes like this: imagine your great grandfather. Most of you probably don’t even know his name and I bet that for the mast majority of you, all of your great grandfathers have already passed away. But look even further up the family tree and think of his father, your great great grandfather. I think it’s safe to say that for all of us, that member of our family is already dead, with very little in the family even remembering him. If, say, the average age your family was born to their parents was around age 20, that means that his father and mother had him at age 20, he had his kids at age 20, and so on. That means that his lifetime was roughly around 100 years ago. So whenever I start feeling really depressed and worthless I just think of his lifetime.
From the day he was born until the day he died, everyone he ever met is dead now and forgotten. Every memory he ever made in school as well as all of his teachers and classmates are gone forever, probably to never be remembered. Every job he worked at, all of his coworkers? Dead. All of the customers that he served? Dead. Hell, even the CEO of the company and everyone he knew, dead. Every memory he ever made in life is now completely forgotten and all that remains of him is a name with no meaning scratched onto a rock somewhere that may have a ready faded or even been destroyed. And if it hasn’t yet, it’s guaranteed that it will. Then it will be as if he never had existed in the first place and his legacy and time on this earth will be lost forever.
This same concept will happen to each of our lives. The top .001% of our generation will be “lucky” enough to have their accomplishments remembered for a brief amount of time after their death. But nobody will ever truely “know” them as people that had met them will.
So if any of you ever feel like life is worthless, just remember that even the happiest of people in the world will soon be nothing. And that in not even that far in the future, the majority of our culture will be changed and forgotten while all of us are dead and gone forever.
