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Originally Posted by roachboy
did you really just figure this out?
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You asking me? I know you werent being sarcastic.
Yes, it occured to me as i watched people walking around doing stuff that once we have achieved basic needs, food, shelter, some type of security, anything after that is just filler to keep us occupied, keep us entertained. As I am now living out of a backpack, for all intents and purposes homeless, with no direction or purpose, it struck me that there is nothing left for me to attain, except for my own personal pleasure. If i want to work hard and become a black belt in karate, or master a second language or cure acne, sure, i can put in the effort to do that, and when i´m done i can say "check it out, i´m a blackbelt, and i speak another language fluetnly, and no one will ever have pimples again" but it doesnt really matter if i attain my goals or fail. in the grand scheme of things, whatever i or anyone else does in this world is for this world only, and this world is temporary.
kind of like going all out decorating and improving a rental house. you can spend time money and effort to improve the house and decorate it, but then you leave and your efforts are for naught, at least to you. if someone else gets to enjoy the well decorated house, they enjoy it, but you get nothing out of it, you dont even know if they enjoy it.