Is it normal to be going through an existential crisis?

I think I'm having an existential crisis. I feel so alone and alienated from 'normal' society, from my family and friends. I dont think this I know it. They all live their lives with this complex simplicity. They just carry on with their little lives not paying to much heed to the ultimate purpose whatever that is. The people I do 'know' seem to make life look so easy with their understandable but meager life objectives. You know, get money, buy shit, go to school, get a job, party, have sex, raise kids, work a career till you retire, etc. I dont understand IT.

How are they not worried about the true existence of the world. I'm suffering with wanting to know once and for all about human origin, the soul, love, ghosts, the universal subconscious, psychic powers, parallel universes/existences, UFOs, aliens, God, the akashic records, reincarnation, ego death, the stars, why everything's geometrically perfect, quantum mechanics, entanglement, unified field theory, string theory, Atlantis, Lemuria, Neburu, wars on Mars, Hollow earth, our moon, the NWO, and theres so much talk of the Illumanati running and planning everything. What if they do. Then whats the point of This? This could all be a simulation too for all we know.

I'm 23 and this thinking is really impeding on my education decisions. I still dont know what I want to be and I basically find every job useless. In a perfect world I would already know that Love and Patients is the only answer, so id go meditate on a goddamn mountain for the rest of my life, and if anyone climbed it thinking I'm a guru, looking for the answer from me, Id kick them the fuck off my mountain. As for everyone around me I cant bring myself to emulate them. I cant even pretend to pretend cause Id know I would feel like a fraud if I do. And if everyone actually has some kind of resonation to how alone and fucked up we are then they do a hell of a job hiding it.

My current meaning in life is to find a job, pay bills, not get kicked out of my uncles house, and an easy one, find out what I want to do with my life. I fear I'm going to end up a homeless schizophrenic old man yelling at fire hydrants for not giving me spare change. I cant even talk to anyone about this. They simply wont understand and over the years I turned into such a painfully nervous, socially awkward, introvert to the point I think everyone thinks I'm kind of retarded. Plus I hate society. Anyone else dealing with this crazy shit?

PS This is what the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.

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  • You're not alone. I've heard this referred to as a Quarter Life Crisis. You'll figure out where you fit in eventually. Good luck.

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  • Everyones starting to realize things like this. I'm one of them

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  • Often enough, the little things are more important than large thinking like that. There is little you can do to uncover all of the secrets in the Universe; heck you could sacrifice your whole life to only find out part of 1 secret (not all of it but just 1 piece of THAT puzzle).

    It's good to question those things but, really, our life on this Earth is pretty much insignificant for the larger part of people. Only a few give meaning to their lives through the ages. And, since my life stands the greater chance of being so insignificant, I would rather simply pursue happiness.

    Simply pursue happiness; it's a goal I may never achieve...

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  • You should study Edgar cayce's readings about all those things. if u r unsure try looking him up on you tube. its quite inspiring about the very things youve mentioned.

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  • that PS thing was clever :)

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  • I went through this crap whin I was 10 (no joke!!!) I am 16 now and frankly it mest with my head but I'm better now making friends and just letting go. Really I think it would be best for your mental health to let go and focuse on being social again :)

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  • ^^your username!! I <3 huckabees is such a good movie... Not to mention relevant to some of OPs concerns :p

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  • Many of my friends question the same things, as do I. It's a life long process. The universe speaks to us is a rather cryptic language but it does communicate. Everything is connected in a vast web and more and more people are starting to see and feel it. Keep asking questions, just remember to "listen" for the answers.

    I am glad you wrote this. It gives me hope for society. Work to build a society in which you want to live in, don't allow these thoughts to consume you, consume them.

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  • human origin-bacteria

    You can check that one off your list.

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  • Read Kafka. Just the realisation that you're not Kafka is surprisingly uplifting. Plus he's an excellent writer.

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  • Keeping busy so you don't think is exactly what society does. That's why theyre making the world so fast paced... Doesn't give us time to think about the bigger things.

    I'm pursuing a life as an artist and hopefully a professor, so as to teach people and maybe pass on that desire to ask questions. You arent crazy at all, the rest of the world is. :)

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  • ??? I'm sorry you lost me at the second line.......

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  • Read the bible.
    :)

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