Am I the only one?

The suffering part is the only part that people can't handle. Even though suffering is equally as irrelevant and meaningless as anything else.

If someone is born, they suffer and then die. It's not accepted. But if someone is born, they are happy or even just do nothing much and then die. This is fine and accepted.

Both paths begin and conclude the exact same way though, they're ultimately both equally as irrelevant. If you feel they're not equally irrelevant, then that is an existential perspective and you must also concede that you think self-made-up subjective meaning has value.

But life is a temporary blip. It will be over at some point before you even know it. Look at how many years of your life have already gone by. At some point, you'll be looking back with the same perspective on all those years gone, but you'll be near the end of your time. It'll all be like nothing. All the previous suffering and happiness irrelevant, lost to time, as you're also about to be.

Maybe you are already in that position right now. You don't know.

Instead of focusing on life, focus on death instead. Because that's where you're ending up and, unlike this blip of a life you have, that will be permanent. Your end will be here in the blink of an eye, your petty life paling in insignificance to it.

There will be no suffering there, no craving for meaning or direction, there will be no 'you' to even conceive of these things. Any possible meaning in life or the universe is completely absent, it's nonexistent to begin with. In death you will be completely absent from everything too, nonexistent in the exact same way.

In life there is no direction, no place to go, but yet we have to move; an annoying paradox and trick of the mind with no answer. In death, your state of existence will at last match that of meaning to the universe, a state of nothing. For sure, subjective meaning holds no power here, you are relinquished from it.

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