boredom — darthbarracuda
My main question is for those that do not fear death or dying. What comes with the peace? Is there anything to follow? — Cobra
My main question is for those that do not fear death or dying. What comes with the peace? Is there anything to follow? — Cobra
Life - living - is a brute fact. And dying is a brute eventuality. Any utility from regarding these as anything else, which can of course be beneficial, is even so a deception. Call living a more-or-less blank canvas. What you do with it is up to you.for those that do not fear death or dying. What comes with the peace? Is there anything to follow? — Cobra
Worrying about the shortness of one lifetime just takes energy away from the appreciation of the expanse of the collective life. — Pantagruel
There isn't this great burden, this urgency to accomplish, you are ready to accept the end and thus can focusing on just living — Judaka
I am not quite at your age, but I have had a similar experience. I had reached a point in my life about a year ago where I had obtained everything I ever wanted. I had reached all of my goals, and there was no "What am I going to do next?" going through my mind. — Philosophim
Here I was completely happy, and at more peace in my life then I had ever been. I woke up enjoying each day, doing what I wanted. Yet a part of my mind nagged at me. "Shouldn't you be trying to plan for something else next?" I wondered if it was laziness. But then I just realized my mind was still in the mode of "next goal", because I had been in it so long. Like you, I enjoy life, and do things which enrich my day. Am I "bored"? I'm not. If I feel bored, I do something which eases that boredom. I don't particularly fear death, because I've accomplished everything I've wanted to. Still, I do get flashes of fear if I think about the end. So perhaps I don't quite fit your experience. — Philosophim
What comes next is unknowable, but different religions & cultures have imagined a variety of sequels to our "brief candle", some good, some bad : the grave; gloomy Hades; non-existence; eternal existence in Heaven or Hell; punishment for sins during life; alternative afterlife as ghost; sequential lives in various animal bodies; transference into a new human body; promotion to ruler of a new planet or world; a new role in a parallel world or astral plane; and so on, ad infinitum. Hence, your attitude toward death may depend on how you envision the afterlife. Some may dread eternal torture, or look forward to an afterlife of bliss, or simply accept whatever happens with equanimity.The compulsive thoughts are not due to fear, but instead a loss of what to do next, and a curiosity in the loss of fear to be some sort of abnormality that would effect optimizing function and habits. — Cobra
Very interesting premises here. The beauty in life is all you see, yet you don't seem to have any explicit attachment to it. — Outlander
I gather you've had a rather pleasant existence.
What do you care about in life, OP? — Outlander
I may or may not be your intended audience. I don't "fear" death or dying per se as much as I would view it like getting caught in bad weather on the way to somewhere important. I would seek to avoid it when possible with a high degree of care. And would be rather annoyed in the process. At present at least. Crap to do, you know.
At 63, i can attest to life being a constant repeat, of the same thing repeating over and over. The challenge there is to change it. — Fenlander
This is interesting, does constantly "easing" the boredom itself feel like a routine? Do you have an awareness of your distractions to distract from the boredom? — Cobra
I simply assume that the Afterlife will be similar to the Before-life : nothingness. So, I have nothing to worry about, nothing to fear, nothing to plan for. Is that attitude "abnormal"? Since I was raised as a fundamentalist protestant Christian, it is indeed. — Gnomon
Waiting.My main question is for those that do not fear death or dying. What comes with the peace? Is there anything to follow? — Cobra
Jeez. So there was no point in living other than selfishness. — Outlander
I have a kind of compulsion to be better off today than I was yesterday, I start to feel depressed when I feel like nothing is changing. Perhaps instead of searching for events, you could involve yourself in a process. Build something, improve at something, watch something grow. — Judaka
My hobbies are often entertainment or thought that is new. I enjoy writing philosophy, reading the news, and playing new video games. For me, I have to be "doing" something. Passively taking in things or repetitive chores quickly wear me out. And at that point, I simply stop doing them. I only tolerate boredom at my job, never boredom in my own life. — Philosophim
The other thing is you could be depressed. Depression is not sadness, it is the absence of all motivating emotions. When nothing brings you any emotional joy, dread, or anything in between, that is a sign. Nirvana is not actually heaven, it is often times a grey hell. — Philosophim
Finally, it could be that you are re-evaluating what others have imparted to you as important, versus your own sense of what is important. As we are raised, many things are pushed upon as as "valuable". Upon spending a few years having to actually live the life we put forward, many of us realize that this "valuable" thing might be valuable, but not to us.
You may be concerned that certain things others consider valuable no longer has any hold over you. That is not a loss of ambition. It is gaining your own perspective on what is valuable to yourself, and what is not. That is where true freedom lies, and the chance to pursue a life that is not one of boredom, but one of fulfillment. — Philosophim
Well, at the risk of spoiling it for you - you seem to have found peace - I suggest you get your hands on a good book that chronicles torture, genocide, and most importantly, discuss with your pastor, lama, imam, rabbi, or a priest from whatever religion you belong to, about hell. There are things far worse than death and I feel people who've overcome their dread of the Grim Reaper should, must, let's just say, take it to the next level. — TheMadFool
Sleep. In my late twenties I lost any shred of ambition I'd had and for no reason other than I felt like I was wasting time today (mostly) 'living for tomorrow'. So then I learned to focus experientially on each day as a journey from waking to falling asleep again, still making and seeing-through my practical plans, yet without racing through my days like a tourist or commuter with tunnel vision bent on just going from A to B to C ... and back to A. My goal each day became the same: avoid whatever diversions or distractions would trouble my health, my calm and my easy sleep. More often than not, now in my fifties, I wake up on the right side of the bed and exhaust myself with full - not necessarily busy - days so that easy "sleep comes like a drug" (as the song says). Bouts of boredom & misery unavoidably come too, of course, and I endure them attentively.My main question is for those that do not fear death or dying. What comes with the peace? — Cobra
"To sleep, perchance to Dream."Is there anything to follow?
Sleep. In my late twenties I lost any shred of ambition I'd had and for no reason other than I felt like I was wasting time today (mostly) 'living for tomorrow'. So then I learned to focus experientially on each day as a journey from waking to falling asleep again, still making and seeing-through my practical plans, yet without racing through my days like a tourist or commuter with tunnel vision bent on just going from A to B to C ... and back to A — 180 Proof
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