Do you remember not being alive? Was that a profoundly unpleasant experience for you? Being dead feels exactly the same.
What you're talking about in your OP is normal existential dread. Well, it's normal for those who have the luxury of not being totally focused on just surviving every day. And, in societies where simple physical survival isn't a huge challenge for most people, it's normal for those who are smart enough to actually ponder the meaning of their life rather than blithely accepting whatever bullshit got shoved into their heads when they were kids.
You're right about religion providing simple, easy answers to the huge existential questions about why we exist, what the hell we're supposed to do with our lives and what happens after it ends. The reality is that religious beliefs are just fairytales dreamed up by people who found it comforting to believe that there was an intelligence controlling the world rather than it all being a bunch of random shit happening for reasons they couldn't comprehend, that death wasn't really The End and that afterwards, there would be some sort of cosmic justice doled out to the good and the wicked. If you accept that's all nonsense and you recognise that you only happen to exist due to an incredibly long string of chance events going right back to the development of the first self-replicating microorganism, then you also have to accept that it's your responsibility to figure out the meaning of your life and what you want to do with it. If you want to, you can waste every moment of your existence on obsessive fretting about how your consciousness will cease one day. It's not going to delay that day, and it's not going to alter the outcome, so it's completely pointless, but you're free to do that if you so chose. Alternatively, you can accept that you do exist at this moment, that you're mortal, and focus on connecting with the world and people around you and finding some joy in that every day. It seems to me that a very good way to get out of your own head is to make an effort to think about others, and try to make the lives of everyone you deal with at least a little more pleasant. We're all in this together, and nobody gets out alive.
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Do you remember not being alive? Was that a profoundly unpleasant experience for you? Being dead feels exactly the same.
What you're talking about in your OP is normal existential dread. Well, it's normal for those who have the luxury of not being totally focused on just surviving every day. And, in societies where simple physical survival isn't a huge challenge for most people, it's normal for those who are smart enough to actually ponder the meaning of their life rather than blithely accepting whatever bullshit got shoved into their heads when they were kids.
You're right about religion providing simple, easy answers to the huge existential questions about why we exist, what the hell we're supposed to do with our lives and what happens after it ends. The reality is that religious beliefs are just fairytales dreamed up by people who found it comforting to believe that there was an intelligence controlling the world rather than it all being a bunch of random shit happening for reasons they couldn't comprehend, that death wasn't really The End and that afterwards, there would be some sort of cosmic justice doled out to the good and the wicked. If you accept that's all nonsense and you recognise that you only happen to exist due to an incredibly long string of chance events going right back to the development of the first self-replicating microorganism, then you also have to accept that it's your responsibility to figure out the meaning of your life and what you want to do with it. If you want to, you can waste every moment of your existence on obsessive fretting about how your consciousness will cease one day. It's not going to delay that day, and it's not going to alter the outcome, so it's completely pointless, but you're free to do that if you so chose. Alternatively, you can accept that you do exist at this moment, that you're mortal, and focus on connecting with the world and people around you and finding some joy in that every day. It seems to me that a very good way to get out of your own head is to make an effort to think about others, and try to make the lives of everyone you deal with at least a little more pleasant. We're all in this together, and nobody gets out alive.
https://www.healthline.com/health/existential-dread
https://www.verywellmind.com/coping-with-existential-anxiety-4163485
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I know it won't delay anything, but that doesn't make it better.
It's just scary