#what's that thing that provides meaning to your life?

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slim temple
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the pillars that keep you going, if I'm making sense. this might sound like a weird question and may even be too private, but I'm just curious to hear it.

grave flax
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I've been thinking about this for the majority of the evening and still don't really have a good answer

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Music and flavour are like two big things that keep me going. Creativity too

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But on a much lower level. Just life itself. Seeing plants, running water. Experiencing texture and touch

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It's like. When I'm seriously in the shit. Properly down

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The idea of ending it all never makes its way into my head

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Because, not ever experiencing anything again is a lot worse than experiencing temporary pain, and having the opportunity to feel good again after, right, and when you're in the low, you know things can only go up from there

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So I just put some good music on and go look at the plants. Pamper myself with some good food and drink, and rest, or put myself to some task. Listen to my footsteps, properly feel everything I touch. And appreciate that I can feel it.

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I dunno. Living makes me want to live I guess

slim temple
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I didn't expect people to spend an extended period of time thinking about it. :o

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but that is an interesting perspective to it.

crude phoenix
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Alcohol

tardy stone
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People.
I love people. I'm the kind of person who used to break down and cry of loneliness if I spent more than 4 hours without interacting with someone.
I love meeting new people, and have no problem talking to strangers i randomly pass during the day. I've started conversations with people in the car next to me at traffic lights that turned into good friendships. I sat on a curb with a random hobo and chatted about a cat we saw. I had a random conversation with a movie actor in Vegas about where to get the best ice cream, and then life philosophy on what true happiness was.
There are all kinds of personal things I enjoy doing for my self, like flying FPV, But it's connecting with people, talking to them, learning about them, sharing stories and views with them that keeps me going.

solar mantle
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God damn superchats

slim temple
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xD

main harness
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A friend committed suicide 11 years ago. I lost my way for a bit, started really looking for things that would me feel like my existence was truly worthwhile and ground me. I traveled to a few countries, I learned carpentry, to sail and then beekeeping. Been keeping bees ever since, and it hasn't failed in keeping me zen.

solar mantle
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Fpv is what keeps me going except for fpv and a few friends in the hobby I don't have much to live for. I do not have a story or something but yea I love all the philosophy and story's shared in this thread I love yall my fpv family!

slim temple
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:)

solar mantle
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We should start a server for things like this

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@slim temple I like things like this they make feel good, they make me think about life and they make me believe that there are still a lot of good people around.

slim temple
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I don't know what a server like that would look like.

solar mantle
stuck herald
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Never loose your sense of wonder or you’ll loose everything else - yeti

slim temple
thin wagon
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For me it’s the dream that one day I can just bugger off in a cabin in the woods. I feel most at peace when there’s no one else around except those I’m close to and I’m in the middle of nowhere. I love camping trips very much because of it. Just being able to climb a giant mountain or find a cozy spot and being at peace and working with nature.
I have a lot of worries because I chose a career in aviation and from what I’ve seen so far the industry is the very opposite of that. But hopefully I’ll find my niche, really hoping I can get into bush flying, hauling logs out of Alaska with a chopper or delivering supplies to remote locations sounds really nice.

grave flax
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As someone who values alone time super highly, and savours the rare opportunities to be truly alone in nature, I feel you

stuck herald
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Flight is dream. Like the aborigines spirits travel in dream time

slim temple
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hello. :)

grave flax
slim temple
grave flax
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Man

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I had a death in the family recently

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And it's just brought up so many questions and feelings and raw panic like i've only experienced a few times before

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But I'm exhausted as fuck, and life goes on. I'll get over it

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I do feel a bit lost

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Like, I can't appreciate the feel and look and smell of stuff when I'm in a panic... I nearly fainted

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I lost a bit what provides the meaning to me in those moments

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Talking it out really helped but I do feel I might panic some more at some point

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So... if yall have hugs spare. I'll take em

slim temple
tardy stone
tardy stone
grave flax
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thank you ❤️❤️❤️

wise oar
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My wife and kids mostly and balancing working hard with being able to spend money on things that give me energy (like FPV)

grave flax
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Mm I'm definitely in the middle of some existential crisis right now

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Nothing I've said before is working, I'm always panicking and crying and feeling disconnected

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Anyone got advice or help?

stuck herald
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I am used to that only 50% of what I do is success, that is part of the deal, also I am usually going the least probable route, just to make sure I’ve not missed a chance for an experiment even if it’s a waste of time. One can learn only by failure, success is proving only what we already know.

tardy stone
# grave flax Anyone got advice or help?

The only thing I've found that helps with that is a hug. That and having a goal to work towords, usually involving people. Sometimes that goal is just making cookies. Sometimes that goal is taking over the earth. Working towards it with people is is what works, not the end result.
Want to help me overthrow the Earth? 😁
🫂

grave flax
slim temple
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see, that's what I never could come up with.

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because I'm still looking for this stuff.

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what works and what doesn't.

stuck herald
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I will take over the world, that involves also taking over people, if they want or not, they’ll have to admit and surrender to my undisputed genius pure evil plans

slim temple
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for a long time music and the thought of the potential possibility that there are still good people out there who I could be friends with and the things / life events I wouldn't be able to experience otherwise were the only two things that kept me alive.

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nowadays I'm kinda drifting again.

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like a ship with no driver.

stuck herald
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Drifting is part of the dream for me. Life is a dream. Dreams are the crossroads of worlds. Salvador Dali said 22 hours sleep, 2 hours work, if I can be only half successful as him I’ll be proud.

gusty crown
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I wouldn't have thought I would ever encounter a deep question on discord ever, but here we are
so, after extensively thinking about it for about 5min while watching a bloomberg documentary on a chinese billionaire with a very small face for his head size then re writing this message 5 times, I have found the answer, to the pillars that make me keep going in life, and there is two, it isn't what provides meaning to my life, but it is what keeps me going, since thoses two are quite different

so, thoses pillars I would say would be my incapability to see something and find it ugly, I can look at basically anything and find it beautiful, like in a car, and somebody is saying that the weather is awfull and it is a crappy day, I see the reflections in the water on the ground and leaves dancing in the wind, a messy room is a textured paint if that makes sense, I am uterly incapable of seing a scene has depressing or anything like that, so that certainly helps,
and secondly, probably my utter lack of reflection on the world, I have constantly like 70 thoughts at a time battling throught my head, so I could basically just sit somewhere for 4 hours, and not be bored because I have 2 monologs about what I am going to do this evening and explaining to myself stuff I already know, meanwhile and an old musclors episode I saw has a kid is playing back in the back of my head, and all that chatter basically stops me from having any reflection on the crappy state of the world where everybody is saying on twitter, wich I should probably uninstall, that we are all going to die in a fire pit because of 700 unknown and unrelated reasons, I just don't have the time to think about that, so that also probably help,

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now has to what is providing meaning to my life, has boring has it probably sounds, I would just say like my hobbies, since it is giving me something to look forward to when I get home, like, there isn't anything better than just putting two hand full of batteries to charge, wait for them to charge with a cup of matcha and a Netflix series then go fly for 3h+, *when I have the time that is, and they basically give me constant things to learn about and projects to do, now I mean, I also have my studies, wich also give a meaning to my life, since it is basically well, what I do for 8h a day while being unpaid,
and I guess I would also add that the small events in life also contribute, like I had a bonfire with some friends this evening because I was burning some old furniture in my yard, and burned my face because a flywoo package I threw in it exploded and I got melted glue on my face, it was fun, so I guess I might not have a glamourous story to tell like lorin, but whatever, life is what makes life fun, that's the takeaway,

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also, little bonus pillar, ignoring the problems of idiots on tweeter and accepting that you cannot control everything and ignoring a bit the problems of people on the other side of the globe on wich you have absolutely no control even if the media desperately want you to take a side and feel involved and bad because something bad happened and you had no way in hell to stop it but they still tell you it's you're fault and that the economy is rushing down and houses are unobtainable because of you and because you are under 40 so old people on the tv are saying you are a lazy ass for not working 5 jobs a time to pay rent so it's youre fault, and everybody will die in 5 years because of climate change and f*ck you because you are white and white people 500 years ago slapped an arab baby on the cheek and it is youre fault and you should feel bad about it and you traumatized thousands of people and you are racist too because everybody in the northen part of the globe is racist so f%ck you because of that , also you're baby will have toe cancer so don't have babies because the world is shit anyway and you will be robbed by a white male pretending to be a black female so he can call you racist when you don't want to give him youre money and now a video of a white millionaire crying about how he only did 5 millions this week so he will have

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to sell his fourth lamborghini and surely you don't want that so go on his patreon or else f$ck you, also there is 27 wars in the world and soon the apocalypse will come to you're country and kill you so spend all you're fake money, you won't live long enought to economize it anyway because china is creating the new covid 6900 and immigrant will vacinate you're child with full sized gps units and a radio transmiter, and a submarine and nano robots that probably cost millions per vaccine but whatever, also now the secret service of china have all of you're data and tiktok was actually spying on you and russia will surely send all it's nuclear nukes to nuke you and every politicians are corrupt and actually the system is fucked because apparently trump was supposed to be the president and ahhhh,
so taking a step back from, that, and the fact I only use discord and youtube to watch engineering stuff, also probably helps I think to keeping a healthy mind and keeping me going without going down the giant depression hole that is at the entrance of every social media theses days.

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(can you tell I like long messages that nobody reads because I am the only freak who likes them)

gusty crown
# grave flax Anyone got advice or help?

I had a low point like that, and what made me go out of it was to basically just start doing other stuff and stop thinking about it until it isn't here anymore, I know it is kind of brute forcing the thing, just saying "I don't want that emotion anymore, so let's stop feeling that way using will and hope" but for me at least, when I am miserable, I just put a smile on my face and go about my day and stop thinking about it, basically it's fake it till you make it, and for me at least it worked, so obviously that's not how most people work, but that's how I did it, so it might help you

stuck herald
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huh i think cynicism doesnt provide meaning, its just philosophical anger

gusty crown
stuck herald
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I’d say whatever keeps you going is the right thing, we shouldn’t let us influence by other than our own individuality, except learn from the errors of others to not repeat them but become inwardly rich

grave flax
stuck herald
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my ship is on autopilot so I have more time for booze

gusty crown
stuck herald
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Okay you seemed too dedicated on the crap sry

gusty crown
stuck herald
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About politics and government i didn’t know how would that affect you if you dont care about it

gusty crown
stuck herald
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Mockery doesn’t provide meaning for me, for some it may but not for me, I’m a hard working man

gusty crown
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neither is it for me, my point was not that I live out of mockery like the tweeter goblins, but that not listening to all that crap makes you're life better

stuck herald
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I agree, the world is full of bullshit, I give meaning towards what I consider is valueable

gusty crown
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also, I don't see why being hard working and a man prohibits you from liking mockery, i'm sure a lot of tweeter goblins work hard and are mens but still enjoy mockery

stuck herald
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It’s no serious business

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They cheat on what is valueable and sell trash for gold

gusty crown
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you might be taking you're self too seriously here, and mockery isn't necesserally about degrading people

stuck herald
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Not directly but in the end yes

gusty crown
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no

lime belfry
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Watching you two bicker is making me happy

stuck herald
gusty crown
stuck herald
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Nihilist

gusty crown
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it would appear I broke atlantean flighengineer

slim temple
stuck herald
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Shut up @gusty crown “it would appear” I don’t answer your bullshit

gusty crown
stuck herald
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You’re an unworthy idiot obviously, the truth behind what you utter is that your life is meaningless as a piece of shit

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Fraud

gusty crown
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such delicious tears of anger

gusty crown
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ah, lovely

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what beautiful poetry

stuck herald
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Eat your own shit if that provides meaning for you

gusty crown
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well, I guess we all have our ways of providing meaning to our life, some it is to insult people to feel better after they are proven wrong and not being able to stop because that's what their ego dictates them to do, then adding reactions to their own messages to feel like other people think like them, meanwhile, some go outside, get off tweeter and see real people, you know, different people have different ways of providing meaning to their life has you say it yourself

stuck herald
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Your way is just bullshitting and being obnoxious

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Disgusting

gusty crown
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well that's you're way of seeing it, but at least I am not trying to bully people on the internet because of my ego

stuck herald
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Eating your shit is not an insult it is what you deserve

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So go ahead

gusty crown
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very mature of you, you know, often, what people say is a direct reflection of themself, you might want to meditate on this a bit

stuck herald
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This is a reflection of my disgust

waxen bough
gusty crown
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I see, I am facing a sensible soul then, if I can disgust and outrage you in such a way so easily, I hope you never get an actual job, for you're own safety

waxen bough
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Let's not