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I don't often feel emptiness, but when I do (usually while lying in bed at night and having a realization of how futile and meaningless everything is) I try to go deeper into it.
Once the panic passes, it's actually kind of nice. Freeing. A good place to start from.
This is altogether different from negative states like depression and anxiety, though, just to be clear. I have those, too.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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