Discussion What does it mean to "Waste your life"?

[TheJester]

Some would consider a NEET to be a Waste of Life - but isnt someone who works 2 jobs and hustles every day also wasting his life.

Well life is just time and time is only wasted if I dont enjoy it.

So if I lay in my bed 12 hours a day and sleep or watch Youtube but enjoy that, is the time and as such the life wasted?

Is it not wasted when I would hustle some data entry job where I sit 12 hours in front of a PC instead?

Its like today you will ALWAYS be a waste of life as long as you dont grind the hamster wheel. Everyone needs to be a creator: make porn, stream video games, generate some capitalistic value.

But what about the philosophical aspect of life? Existential philosophers like Jean-Paul Sartre suggest that life inherently has no meaning except the one we give it. A "wasted life," in this context, might be one where an individual fails to create their own purpose or live authentically according to their true self.

Am I a waste of life then because I dont have a high income job, be a millionaire and have lots of sex?

Arent most humans that?

Isnt humanity itself a waste?

And if not, how can an individual know if he is or isnt?

 

[ethniccel1]

You are young once. When young your barins learn quickly plus you have energy in your body.

Imagine learning nothing when young but just rotting with vidya and cooming . Not learning a trade like chef cooking, welding , coding etc etc, instead just rotting. After 40 you cant learn well plus the body is aging so its ovER

 

[kaijicel]

i would say you wasted your life if werent happy

 

[ADOLF HONKLER]

A wasted life is a life where you don't get to fulfil your potential

 

[Grodd]

If you were to look at my life it's a wasted life

 

[Ahnfeltia]

I'd say wasting your life is not spending your time optimally by your own metric.

 

[user]

I'd say wasting your life is not spending your time optimally by your own metric.

I agree, external metrics like how society often imposes standards for success lead to an unfulfilled and wasted life

 

[Regressive]

Im too autist to enjoy anything
But consider productivity as a yardstick for determining whether you wasted your day or not

 

[outcastgymcel23]

I don't like think about it

 

[Ahnfeltia]

I agree, external metrics like how society often imposes standards for success lead to an unfulfilled and wasted life

for misfits like us you're right, but the usual spiel might not be so bad for normies

 

[zephyr]

Being given Sexual reproductive Organs only to be told that finding Sex desirable is Perverted.