Depressing Realizations

[TitanAura]

Can we just change this thread's title to "EVERYTHING YOU KNOW AND LOVE WILL DIE"?

 

[ToastiestZombie]

We've all had them, when some random moment you come to the realization that just makes you feel really, really bad. So this is the thread to share some of the ones you've had.

The other day I was browing the internet when out of nowhere I realized something. Since I'm only 14 years old then pretty much everything I hold dear right now will end, or die sometime in my lifetime. MLP:FiM, Adventure Time and The Walking Dead will all be cancelled.

I'm not bothered by the fact that everything will end. What I care about is that things will end at the right time. Not be cancelled before they've run their course(Firefly, ) and not drag on and on forever, long past the point that they've done anything interesting or original(Too many series to count) so that when they do get cancelled, nobody cares.

Yeah, that's what I hope doesn't happen to both Adventure Time and MLP:FiM. They're both shows that I love, and I think that if they lasted more than say 6 seasons then they'll just become like the Simpsons.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Ahh here's another one. The fact that I've taken art for GCSEs when really, I'm terrible at it. When you're on your own, sketching random stuff then your art seems amazing. But when I went into school and see that about 90% of girls can draw stuff better than I can I felt really depressed, knowing I'm probably going to end up doing some shit. It's only worsened by the fact that my brother was the best artist in A Level and GCSE art in my school, so I have a lot to live up to.

Hey, guess what, GCSEs count for shit all. The majority of the time 5 Cs will do (as far as I know), though you might need to get Bs or As in English, Maths and the Sciences. Also, from what I hear, art is more about writing a lengthy analysis of artists, art and what influenced it. You can wing GCSEs if you're smart enough, A-Levels are a whole other story.

OT: I'm not a guy for depressing thought, I can usually put a happy spin on almost any news, I'm not even that bummed out about death or everything I love ending - it wouldn't be as awesome if I knew it would last forever and I might as well enjoy it all completely while I can, rather than fearing the end.

There is one thing that bothers me though, and it might for the rest of my life; Hogs of War 2 may never be released. I shudder at the thought and I mean I actually shuddered.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

The fact that I literally have nothing to look forward now, and that life and the world as I know will all just cease to exist sometime.

In the wider scale of things, every life form on this planet is insignificant, as is the aforementioned planet, so essentially, all of us are just lazily going through the motions until we reach the unknown world of death.

How much of a depressed, pessimistic bastard I am, and I?m only 16. How the fuck am I going to survive in the next couple of years, especially with my A-Levels and my overall incompetence at 99% of everything that I do? This basically means that I probably will never amount to anything of worth, and all my dreams of becoming a rich and successful writer akin to J.K. Rowling is just that?dreams.

I feel like I have no control over myself or my life, and I loathe myself. I always complain about not having a girlfriend, but admittedly, I?m frigid, I?d probably just hurt anyone who?d get close to me, and I have to learn to love myself before I can actually learn others, which is probably why I?ve deluded myself into thinking that I fancy a couple of girls that I barely even know just based on the fact that they?re more friends of friends and are kind to me.

Humans living longer. Better health does not necessarily mean better quality of life, so it could essentially mean for me and a lot of other people a longer time to feel like shit, unless we have the stones to kill ourselves. I?m scared of humans, and I?d rather not we have our lifespan extended even more than they should be?

The fact that I felt so much happier when I was younger, before around the time I turned 14. Ignorance (and lack of worries or responsibilities) sure is bliss. And I?ll never be able to regain those times of happiness. Not exactly, at least.

We will probably never know all the answers to the universe, not least of all those that actually make sense. I mean, yeah, we know about particles and shit works, but why? Why must they work like that? Why can?t I or they do this and that?

I have so much stress at the moment that the only time I can ever truly relax is when I?m drunk.

 

[xplosive59]

Death is inevitable and you will be forgotten by everyone sometime in the future.

 

[Vegan_Doodler]

Well lets see.

1. I'm going to die, my body will break down and be reused by the earth a million times over, the electronic signals that make up my mind will dissolve into the surrounding atmosphere causing all my thoughts and memories to be lost forever. My final resting place will degrade, be forgotten and reused again and again so that the only physical evidence of my existence will be a name and a couple of dates in government tax records, these records will become obsolete, moved to a storage building, be neglected and eventually be destroyed by a leaky roof or hungry rats. And then the sun will go super nova, the universe will eventually brake down and I will never have existed at all.

Logical conclusion, all things are worthless.

2. The odds are there is nothing after death

3. I will inevitably die so I'm not going to see loads of amazing stuff, Imagen the 3012 holographic, 3D, interactive, remake of The Avengers.

4. Thinking I was pretty good at character design I am doing a game design course, after one year its becoming abundantly clear that I am no where near as good as I need to be by this point.

Well all that was bloody depressing.

 

[Duskwaith]

That ill die in some stupid war, over some stupid shit, in some stupid ass field before my younger brother is old enough to know how great his impact was on my life and how much i loved him and that i wont be around to protect him from this brutal world or lessen any of the burdens life throws at him;because no one was there for me when i had to go through that shit.

At the same time i think ive thrown away my chance at being happy with someone who truely loves me for who i am, also my dog is going to die leaving me without someone that has been with me through thick and thin despite only being what is considered a "stupid dog"

captcha: raise cain haha strange

 

[In Search of Username]

People will probably never form a fair, stable society, because we prefer constant bickering and are easily fooled by extreme ideas.

I tend to have that realisation every time I read enough comments on a news article.

 

[halfeclipse]

All we've got waiting for us is the slow, but enetiveable heat death of the universe as it approaches maximum entropy, and the space of time life can reasonably exist in the universe is around 100 Trillion years.

100 billion years from now. the local group will destabilize, merging into one big galaxy, a trillion years after that galaxies will be red shifted far enough we wont be able to see them anymore (even the gamma rays they emit will have a wavelength longer then the observable universe.) 100 trillion years from now, the Stelliferous era will end, and no more stars will form. 10-20 trillion years after that the last stars (low mass red dwarfs.) will exaust the last of their fuel, cooling to white dwarfs, leaving the universe populated black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. In the absence of an energy source, these remnants will cool further, grow faint and except for rare events the last light in the universe will go out.

Over the next quadrillion years, the remaining orbits of the planets will decay, or be flung from the system, and over the next 100 Quintillion years the same will happen to the stellar remnants within the galaxies.

10 Decillion years later baryonic matter (Which includes protons and neutrons.) will begin to decay into photons and leptons, and by 10 Duodecillion years (10^40) this will have finished, leaving the universe to the black holes for the next 10^100 years as they slowly evaporate to nothing, leaving the universe effectively empty as it reaches true heat death.

Fuck me. Way to cause a huge downer. O.O

You certainly did your homework.

Had basically that reaction first time I read up on it.


In case you're wondering, the percentage of time life can exist is (roughly) one septvigintillionth of a percent (10^-86), if we stop counting the universes life span when the black holes have all gone away.

WI'm taking a guess at the name of that number btw. It should be right, but I can't actually find a list of names that goes that small.

 

[aba1]

It worries me that we as a society won't be able to step up when we get to a breaking point between classes. As technology advances we outdate more and more jobs while our population keeps growing so eventually there will not be enough jobs to support the population by any stretch of imagination and when the time comes I have a feeling people won't be able to set aside there differences to take care of each other.

 

[Sight Unseen]

I have to go back to school tomorrow because the weekend is over

 

[Mr. GameBrain]

Some point during the day, my mind will remind me of how pointless my existance has been, how much of a screw-up I am, and how I haven't done anything significant in my life ever really.
(And sometime suggests that I should kill myself.(Though I would never, ever do that. So don't go firing the sirens!))

Yup. Self-esteem issues.

(Combine that with my Social anxiety, and you have a very lonely, solitary person (seriously I have been at uni for three years, and I only have ONE friend. My best friend from school, (and quite stupidly I sometimes feel that I am such a burden on him (on everyone really...))) Infact, I have less friends now than I have ever had. (Social anxiety does that to a person))

And from my lack of progress so far, it looks like it might take me a veeeeery long time to somewhat get over them.

 

[In Search of Username]

whatever humankind will ever archieve it will be destroyed once the universe starts to contract again.

plus you are insignificant.
and you will die.

That one day people will find a way to prolong life indefinitely and I will be long dead and buried.

yeah this too.

and i may die one day before the first replicator or holodeck is made.

Worse then that. All we've got waiting for us is the slow, but enetiveable heat death of the universe as it approaches maximum entropy, and the space of time life can reasonably exist in the universe is around 100 Trillion years.

100 billion years from now. the local group will destabilize, merging into one big galaxy, a trillion years after that galaxies will be red shifted far enough we wont be able to see them anymore (even the gamma rays they emit will have a wavelength longer then the observable universe.) 100 trillion years from now, the Stelliferous era will end, and no more stars will form. 10-20 trillion years after that the last stars (low mass red dwarfs.) will exaust the last of their fuel, cooling to white dwarfs, leaving the universe populated black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. In the absence of an energy source, these remnants will cool further, grow faint and except for rare events the last light in the universe will go out.

Over the next quadrillion years, the remaining orbits of the planets will decay, or be flung from the system, and over the next 100 Quintillion years the same will happen to the stellar remnants within the galaxies.

10 Decillion years later baryonic matter (Which includes protons and neutrons.) will begin to decay into photons and leptons, and by 10 Duodecillion years (10^40) this will have finished, leaving the universe to the black holes for the next 10^100 years as they slowly evaporate to nothing, leaving the universe effectively empty as it reaches true heat death.




Personally a Big Bang>Big Crunch>Big Bang cycle is damn cheery in comparison.


Of course the sun is getting hotter and more luminous, and will boil the earths oceans in .5 to 1.5 billion years. (so we don't need to worry about when it becomes a red giant and just incinerates the earth), so we don't need to worry.


Oh and time time may just run out in the next 3-5 billion years, assuming it hasn't already started to do so.

I don't get why these big 'life is meaningless, everything will end!' realisations bother people. Like... so what? Everything is temporary, you can still have fun with it while it lasts. Everything is meaningless, but you can still have fun. Never really understood why that kind of stuff worried people so much.

 

[Pebblig]

Whenever I realise that life is too short, it just suddenly hits you that time flys by...and before you know it you're in your 40's =/

 

[Marter]

I found out the other day that The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption fell back to a 3.5 on IMDb.

Ruined my day, man.

 

[SEXTON HALE]

Well I was standing on top of a montain yesterday with my head literally in the clouds.
I could not see shit for more than thirty feet it was class.
When I made it down to the usual altitude of about thirty feet below sea level I thought WOW!
Anything I do down here does'nt mean shit because Im not standing not standing on a mountain right now.
From now on I will conduct all my bussiness from the top on a mountain while gazing down on those unfortunate enough to not be on the top of a mountain.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

That sometime, all my files are going to be lost

 

[winginson]

There is one thing that bothers me though, and it might for the rest of my life; Hogs of War 2 may never be released. I shudder at the thought and I mean I actually shuddered.

I loved Hogs of War, it was just so good. That is such depressing thought.

That I lack the courage to make positive changes in my life, and that I won't do the only thing I think will make me happy because because I see it as risking too much for too little gain.

 

[joonsk]

That Monty Python no longer exists. And me being terrible in finding enough motivation to do anything interesting.