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Why am I not entertained? Why is my enthusiasm gone? I stick these questions in the bucket that houses my brain, waiting for an explanation. There are so many opportunities in the 21st century, why am I seeing only the pointlessness of it all? Am I turning into a middle-aged, grumpy skeptic, or have I probably entered the stage of existential crisis?
Yes, here I’m talking about how to enter an existential crisis. I’m not going to pretend to know how to escape one. I don’t know.
As a curious person, till recently, I never felt any problem with finding inner drive to do stuff. But something shifted. It became increasingly difficult to ignore the constant despair and lack of enthusiasm.
Probably you feel it too. The greyness. The exhaustion of doing the same monotonous things over and over again. The darkness and despair that quickly cloud your mood, even when you’re doing stuff that previously gave you excitement. Or hopefully you have no idea what I am talking about.
Either way, this piece is about me exploring what I think got me into an existential crisis.
It’s far from trying to convey self-pity or evoke some sort of malicious attempt for empathy.
It’s about my viewpoint on what I think got me into this place. Through writing, I want to tackle the different angles of my condition. The final goal is to find a route to get out of the meaningless hole I’ve apparently dug myself into.
For me, it is a sort of therapy. For you, it’s probably a way to not end up where I am now.
What is An Existential Crisis?
An existential crisis is essentially when your life suddenly feels empty, lost, and meaningless.
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