Has anyone in their 30s 40s 50s had a sudden change of perception of our own mortality? I found myself thinking a lot about it recently (no significant events around me). I just find life so ephemeral now as compared to how I used to see life so grand and long it might as well have been infinite. Not anymore. I guess it’s part of growing old. Anyone else feel similar?
WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE
Submitted 1 year ago by bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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chepox@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
6mementomori@lemmy.world 1 year ago
in my case it happened much sooner, at 16 to be exact
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Yep. IMO it’s a good thing. But there’s still a grand and long scale: how is that we arrived here at all, a momentary ripple in a larger fabric?
OskarAxolotl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, it’s very common (mostly) in men at that age.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
More the opposite direction for me. I’m so stressed, overworked, and beaten down by life that I don’t have the energy to worry about mortality like I did when I was younger.
When I die at least I won’t have to go to work anymore, is my thinking.
And I like my job, I can’t imagine what it’s like for people who don’t.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You will someday lose your life, but try not to mope. You did get it for free, after all.
db2@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Childhood is the free trial, adulthood is the subscription that keeps increasing in cost.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Could you not, right now? I’m literally just about to sign a new lease.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Not moping. I AM ALIVE
sebinspace@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I intend to live forever, thank you very much
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Me too. We should get to know each other. Eventually. We have time.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
A friend once told me that we’d stay out of each other’s way until the end of time, and then in the end we’d turn and attack each other.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Arthas intensifies
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
WE’RE DOOMED!
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!
Kissaki@feddit.de 1 year ago
You’re screaming in the shower?
AceBonobo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re not???
Cabrio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What I feel isn’t existential dread of my pending non-existance. What I feel is FOMO.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What I feel is a need to fire arrows into the future, that I know will fly further than my small personal life, that will land somewhere and sprout huge trees that people live around and under.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I refused. Y’all know you can opt out, right? Don’t ask how. That’s not allowed.
who8mydamnoreos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Life is finite, but shit it feels like forever
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s longer than the longest time you’ve ever experienced.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Unless you happen to live an entire simulated lifetime because of an alien probe.
handofdumb@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The days are long but the years are short, it’s been said.
tdawg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is it weird that I’ve become less existencial with age? Like back in school I struggled with suicidal thoughts and couldn’t cope with the “meaninglessness” of it all. But honestly these days I’m content just living how I like to and enjoying the simple things
SethranKada@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Maybe? I never really grew out of it, my brain just realized that emotions don’t solve problems and stopped bothering me about it all the time. Though, my fears are more along the lines of forcefully being prevented from dying, rather than the alternative. Still get the chills whenever I imagine having dementia and not being allowed to kill myself.
I’m not suicidal anymore, but still. There are things I’d rather choose the forever-sleep than experience.
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Not weird, happened to me too.
I think my brain got bored of it and moved on. Plenty more to do than attempt to answer the unanswerable question!
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
We’re all going to Bart
Tujio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I meant soon.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
So did I
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FiFoFree@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Speak for yourself.
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
First time having thoughts of death?
It’s fine, you’ll get used to it. Making a movie about it helps.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yep. In the grand scheme it’s pretty much already happened. I mean sure, you get a little bit of time to say your goodbyes and enjoy some final yayas. How are you going to use it?
Welp, back to work.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Die well.
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Personally I am living on indefinitely as an information ghost.
kaboom36@ani.social 1 year ago
I too would like to live indefinitely as an information ghost, may I join you?
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think it comes free nowadays
jack@monero.town 1 year ago
Absolutely true, use every day.
Hoomod@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We’re all dying at different speeds
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Except that guy that fell into the black hole. He just looks frozen.
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Hopefully it’s a cool death, like a public beheading or a space travel accident.
Knowing my luck it’ll be death from boredom or something…
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Why not both?
Why not a mysterious spinning saw blade that’s been in orbit for ten years that comes out of nowhere while you’re giving a space walk and talk to a bunch of other astronauts, slices your head off, and is out of radar range before anyone grasps what’s happening.
So astronomically fast is this saw blade traveling that it imparts almost no momentum to your head, except a gentle nudge that sends your grimacing head slowly upward. It gets almost a foot away from your shoulders before people realize something is wrong.
Asudox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
breaking news: we are all going to die
seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You didn’t have this realization at like 5 years old?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Not me
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Oh fuck!
debounced@kbin.run 1 year ago
_Except for me
You know why?'Cause I had my tray table up
And my seat back in the full upright position_Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Lowkey, sometimes I wish and hope to just go to sleep and not wake up at least once or thrice a month. Thats how I know it will never happen and imma wind up getting shot or cancer instead.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What if there were a bullet that injected alien DNA into you, which boosted your metabolism to billions of times normal speed and you died of cancer within a second of being hit.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That is what happens when you consume dihydrogen monoxide daily. No one has survived after drinking it.
Jamie@jamie.moe 1 year ago
Oxygen makes iron turn into rust, don’t let that be your lungs. Oppose Big Oxygen.
roanescence@mstdn.social 1 year ago
@Jamie @slazer2au Big oxygen is crazy 💀😭
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
And those fuckers give it to us as soon as we’re born, ensuring our inevitable demise
What a sick cruel twisted world
stck@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Around seven percent of people who’ve consumed dihydrogen monoxide have survived.
ArianaGrande@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It has a higher pH level than any known acid!!!