How often do you get existential dread?

TaleOfSammy , 10 months ago

Not enough of these say “hourly” for me to be comfortable answering.

Are y’all not freaking out every second or-…?

Kittiesmom13 , 10 months ago

At 50+, I get it almost daily. I never had it before. Not sure if its the state of the world we live in now, aging, or a combination of both. All I know is I’m glad I’m old and won’t be around to see some of the stuff I’m scared of.

Pack , 10 months ago

Existential?

More like Exponential Dread.

doppelgangmember , 10 months ago

Ayooo!

sobbing

Kolanaki , 10 months ago

Every day since I was in junior high about. Knowing that I have nothing to really look forward to except working a job I don’t really want to afford to barely keep myself alive right up until the day I die, alone and forgotten.

Raisin8659 , 10 months ago

Often, although I suspect that I just feel bad, and need to make up stories to justify the bad feelings. So, it doesn’t have to be existential.

waterbogan , 10 months ago

Its been years since I’ve experienced this, thankfully. It used to be pretty much a daily thing when I was in a relationship with an alcoholic though, but I ended that over ten years ago

AnalogyAddict , 10 months ago

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DeadwingSoda , 10 months ago

What broke for you?

SendMePhotos , 10 months ago

I’d imagine the constant terror.

PeWu , 10 months ago

Makes sense

TheGuyTM3 , 10 months ago

Everytime i listen minecraft music for a while, i have terrible trougts about the future, all the persons i know dying one by one, and everything i know and use today being forgotten somehow.

Sterile_Technique , 10 months ago

Used to get it every time I read an article on the current state of climate change. The dread has kinda just shifted to acceptance. Short of some miracle-tier scientific breakthrough or like literal divine/extraterrestrial intervention, we’re just hard fucked and there isn’t jack we can do about it.

Kinda adopted the personality of this dude:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3925a86b-d43b-4b13-b0f4-1a1940a7b01e.jpeg

jtk , 10 months ago

I’ve been watching Station Eleven, The OA, and The Leftovers. The idea we’re all just jumping around different timelines/dimensions, repeating the same stories over and over is kind of fun. But then I remember I’ve never seen any evidence that’s even remotely true :/

jtk , 10 months ago

This man has the answers to Patrick’s exit-pencils crisis.

empireOfLove , 10 months ago

Wait, you guys stop having it?

SendMePhotos , 10 months ago

I’m glad I’m not alone. Thank you.

DrQuint , 10 months ago

Always. I stopped caring. The world will burn, whatever. Who cares.

PeWu , 10 months ago

“Who cares” is main reason why I have existential dread. Other reasons are that I’m just shit at living life.

Manifish_Destiny , 10 months ago

Same.

Its taking a long while to not still have moments of dread though.

World’s fucked and burning. Somehow that’s partisan.

Almost 15% of the population of my country thinks climate change is fake news.

Massive corruption in the highest levels of government, which no one can apparently do anything about.

Massive wealth inequality, American dream is dead.

No one can afford a house because of the wealth inequality and companies like blackrock buying them all…

Also, we are going over the tipping point for mass extinction.

Yeah we are totally fucked in every direction. Time to do some drugs about it I guess.

PoetSII , 10 months ago

Hey, it could be worse, you could be a kid whose whole world is in the midst of melting down before they’ve even had a chance to realize what life could’ve been like if not for the shitty decisions of the preceeding generations.

PeWu , 10 months ago

I may be relatively young compared to other guys on this thread, but I’m also a victim of something like this. Recently I’m fighting with the company I’ve worked for over so tiny shit that it astonishes me, and terrifies because of consequences of incorrect actions from my side. I’ve understood years ago that I’m no one and will achieve nothing, so it hits less. This dread also comes in waves, as I was good for whole 3 months, and now to the same old shit. Sigh.

Mandy , 10 months ago

Yes