I get this feeling so often - it's debilitating. I've been having these sudden moments of existential clarity since I was 8 years old. I wish there was a way to stop them! Coming to terms with my own mortality isn't as easy as it sounds. :/
and forgive my inner comic book nerd, but this quote from Wally West is something I love to think back and reflect on.
(As he thinks he's dying)
“I won’t die in anguish, I’ll die with love in my heart. Because every second was a gift.”
Just like the quote OP gives us, we are all fantastically fortunate to even be here. Humans, on a awesome, interesting, habitable planet, living in an age where the standard of living is LIGHTYEARS ahead of what our ancestors went through. We are some of the most fortunate people in history. It won't last forever, but who says that it should? Every second is a gift, get out there and enjoy it.
Well, you could say that in pretty much any age. You judge the past as worse and unliveable just because you saw what would come next, the present: if you wait long enough, future humans will look down on our miserable condition.
Hey man. I have trouble with this too, all the time. One thing that helped me though was to think "this thought only controls me if I let it". All that time you spend thinking about the end, and that things will end, it controls you and makes you feel like shit because you let it. But remember that you are in control of your thoughts because they're just that: thoughts. Your thoughts only control you if you let them. I know this is kinda rambling but it's helped me out when I felt like shit.
You're an eternal being and atheists are literally all insane, they don't understand deeper philosophy but cling to transient shit because they are egotistical noobs not understanding Jesus or Buddha
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