Surrounded by superficiality

"Superficiality is everywhere and it actually makes me feel physically sick. I get an empty feeling in the pit of my stomach; in my skull; because it's as if there's nothing else to live for anymore. I think it's because I'm finding it hard to really care about anything nowadays (apart from music and at one point, even that faltered) and when I'm surrounded by all this emptiness, all this materialism...I don't know, but I hate it. Always have.

That was a bit off topic, sorry. I just feel that the whole human race is caught up in this illusion sometimes and it makes me feel so lost."

I wrote this a couple of months ago somewhere else. Does anyone else relate? Is it normal to feel this way?
I KNOW that it sounds incredibly angsty, but don't worry, I'm not that morose about things all of the time.

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  • themagicalmuse

    In life there is always going to be superficiality but the best way to deal with that is to accept it for what it is.

    The world will not change so it is up to you to see it for what it is and lead by example and be the change you want to see in the world.

    Thank you for sharing your thoughts it is a very good and valid point and I do appreciate your feelings on it.

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  • You are looking for too many answers outside of yourself, and not enough from within: who are you, what are you about, what matters to you? In other words: what are your values as a person, and how then do you relate to the external world?

    If you don't know that, then you are a leaf blowing in the wind, a ind of superficiality and meaninglessness.

    If you did know, well you wouldn't have posted this, and would have thousands of options through which you could actually make a difference in this great big world.

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    • PoisonFlowers

      Thank you. I guess this is something else that I'll have to keep on trying to figure out - which is basically what life can be about I suppose. It's always about finding things to ground yourself with.

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  • hollydolly1993

    I feel the same way and i dont understand why people feel the need to have all of these meaningless things, and ive found myself withdrawing from people and things, you just need to find a good friend who feels the same way as you which i was lucky to do.

    Also once you start to connect with people and get past the superficial there is usually some redemable qualities in people you concider shallow

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  • CountessCoolout

    I do wonder if you buy your clothes at wal-mart or at the mall... It's hard to say how weird this is without knowing whether or not you're a hypocrite.

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  • Drzesty

    You should research the Slave Cage philosophy. I think the same way. We're living in a cage that we've made for ourselves.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A&feature=youtu.be

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  • xxxbeautifullybrokenxxx

    Yeah I feel the same!

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  • GreenSheep

    Well I cant say this one is normal. But some of the greatest ppl of all time werent normal. I feel very much the same way but I try to help ppl look past all the things holding them back. although ignorance is bliss, they say.

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  • JMDude

    And a on a final note, don't give a shit what others think, i'm a bitter narcissist with(possibly) sociopathic tendences yet I still happen to care about those who don't wrong me by being too human(which is an artificial concept, like language, which, obviously, varies). I mean, I once talked to a shrink, right, and she, SHE, an idiot woman, no offence if you are a young woman yourself, decided to say that although i'm not a sociopath, I may have sociopathic tendences, because, I didn't feel guilty for punching my dad when he was being brave on alcohol, dutch fucking courage, he even called the police and then decided to not press charges, waisting their time, and mine, yet I cry like a fucking baby when my mother dies suddenly of a fucking aneurysm, which is apparently hereditary, a year after I punched my dad, a week before this Christmas, a mournful time! More misery, bring it on universe, you havn't held back yet, don't start now!

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  • JMDude

    And I get your feelings about social relationships, I have two dog companions though, one since I was five, the other(her pup) since I was nine, now i'm eighteen, and and have a detatched relationship frrom my two human childhood friends, who always tried to avoid me, and now feel guilty for being part of giving me a hard time growing up, yeah, all I remember is coldness and pain, thats nature, I was a kind lad, still am, and paid for it by being literally whipped with wires, and once having food thrown at me in the schoolyard, so yeah...

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  • JMDude

    Yeah, exactly, humans are delusional and self destructive, thats why people like me are rejected by society, we usually become painters or scientists, and are only respected when old, or dead, but our generation is the retarded eighties, its a polar opposite of nihilism, clinging to idiocy, while someone like me(and possibly you, I don't know)are left to the cold clutches of reality, and i'm always opposed, sadly though, I understand...my life has been a misery, I am cold thing, yet warm, like Frankensteins monster(the intellectual novel monster, not the BS Hollywood from like the frickin thirties)

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    • PoisonFlowers

      I'm sorry for your loss. That's really shitty..I don't have anything else that I can say. I haven't taken such a bite out of the shit sandwich myself, but I hope that you don't let it take everything you have. Coldness and pain isn't always the way of things.

      Detatched relationships with people I call my friends - heh, that's right. I'm most comfortable with it that way anyway, I think. It's easier. Maybe I've just grown used to it. They say you can get used to anything - I guess even your own company.

      I don't know what kind of person you think I am, but I think that the number of people sick of idiocy; just sick in general, is huge. Some people don't even know it. Most people just live with it. They don't become painters or scientists - they just get on with it. The person behind the counter, the person sitting on the bus, the accountant. Not always someone great or amongst the "greatest people of all time." Just normal people. That's just how I see things though.
      And about our generation being retarded - I think most of the other "eras" weren't much better either once it's all been weighed up. I wonder if there ever were any good ol' days. Can never say for sure because of my limited perspective.

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      • I meant that for you, too PF.

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      • JMDude

        Okay, i've had a fucked up life, not that fucked up, but still. Just the aforementioned crap that i've been putting up with. I mean I just have a fucked up relationship with my dad. He pays for University because me and my younger sister are the last shot for this family yet obviously has a secret desire to see me fail, although i'm doing well. And i'm studying in the same city that I grew up in, on this stupid rock of Ireland. And the people that know me best see me as being destined for greatness, and you know, they are right, but that is not a good thing. You see, my life is one of a bitter balance, I could theoretically charm my way to greatness and be hailed worthy of my lineage from Niall of the nine hostages(influencial Irish aristocrat who cemented his influence by taking royal hostages from a number of royal houses) but I could also just as well spend my life in the media trying to climb but just end up dying as a junior minister, or I might just try to start up a company but fail, or, or; I could just become a satirist and be noted as one of many Irish funnymen, eitherway, i'm just smart enough to at least father a future President of Europe, if the opportunity does not arise for myself, and I doubt it will, the EU is probably not heading that way in my generation. I mean come on, the President of the EU Commission can't even dissolve parliamenr, so he is barely even a Prime Minister, let alone an executive President, and the President of the EU Council is just a figurehead for foreign affairs crap.

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  • joemommamia

    You need to find a freind and have a lot of sex and you will be OK!

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