Guess who is sitting in the middle of London drinking coffee and feeling sad as fuck about his aimless life...

Guess who is sitting in the middle of London drinking coffee and feeling sad as fuck about his aimless life? Guess who will go in to his full time job for 20 minutes today to check his emails? Guess who can't bear to do anything productive when he feels like he needs to read lots of boring canon books and learn boring shit?

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Lol get a hold of yourself

I was like you around 21-23. You'll grow over it

Boris Johnson.

easily the board's best gimmick

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Can't wait for you to die, my man

hang in there Frogbro
you have intrinsic valie and i'm glad you're alive

Prince Charles?

I'll be ready, waiting in the shadows... I'll take you down with me, my woman

You're like just about every bong I know. Congratulations.

I'm spending my first Christmas alone in London this year.

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Valie? LOL what does that mean?

Every day with this stupid thread. Get lost, faggot.

It's not just you. Depression is a disease of our times, a lot of people complain about feeling unproductive and aimless about their own lives. Though I understand that may sound even more of a horrible setting ("so not only I'm in the shit, but the world is in the shit?"), but also realize that we are pushing ourselves with unrealistic ideals of being productive and having an aim. Last week you saw some video of some person telling how success came and that person sounded so clear about one's own life. You scroll through hundreds and hundreds of good pictures a day. You just got a spam email about something that doesn't interest you, and the subject said "Get it now! Just this weekend! 30% off!" and you, rightly so, deleted it. Don't think those things do not affect you, we think we obviously can tell between reality from when someone is just advertising themselves, but our unconscious does not perceive it that way. Even if you stay outside, people around you are also being affected, your parents have changed, politics have changed, entertainment have changed. The internet changed the way we imagine each other and thus, how we see ourselves. And we are looking at ourselves as if we were always deficient of some other thing that apparently everyone already has. It is in this sense that to realize people are just depressed as you can help you (and perhaps others) understand that it is both real and illusory, it depends on practical actions because you are affected by the world you have around you, but we also need to collectively shake up this weight from each other's heads a little bit, or act in spite of that weight, because this obligation to be productive or have an aim is also constructed by our own pressuring of one another, mainly by the words we use and the images we share.

>all sources of meaning have been systematically deconstructed and destroyed
>hedonistic pleasures of modernity are only available to a small percentage of rich and/or attractive men
>can't look forward to the pleasures of raising a family
>can't get a fulfilling job doing something that benefits humanity
Can someone give me a genuine reason as to why life is worth living?

>It is in this sense that to realize people are just depressed as you can help you (and perhaps others) understand that it is both real and illusory

So true. My own depression has been radically changed just by talking with others about their similar issues.

Is our society headed to a place where we need to, socially and culturally, address the general lack of purpose that is so pervasive across the board?

This only applies to White society, and perhaps mongrel blacks and hapas. Muslim communities have strong communities ties, self-imposed limitations on their worldview and intelligence, and powerful religious ideals. There is very little depression there, comparatively speaking. It is only whites who are extremely depressed. Thankfully the white race in Europe at least will be gone within a century.

Hispanic families have the lowest rate of suicide of any group in the US for similar reasons: community.

Have you considered burning a policeman?

And suicide in Africa is pretty much unheard of due to Africans being low-IQ animals. Sadly the more human you are the more likely you are to not want to be human.

Address in what way? There are already quite a lot of resources and studies on depression. What do you want, for celebrities to come out as depressed-Americans?
Find someone you can confide in and examine why you feel the way you do.

What makes Hispanic families not want to commit suicide is a state of being that's much more human than the atomized world white people live in

Filtered. Fuck off.

The truth is that life has no meaning, though your search for it has.

Listen to the words you say: "raising", "fullfilling", "benefits", "pleasures", "sources". Always a response to something, as if you had one thing to do in life and you'd just have to discover what it is. First you mourn the loss of "sources of meaning", then you mourn that you amongst the crowd was not born in front of the small passage to "hedonistic pleasures". Then you say you "can't look forward" to the pleasures of raising a family, it's not that you can't have the pleasures, you mourn that you "can't look forward" to them. That's anxiety. That's thinking you ought to look forward, that's the pressure Then you say you "can't get" something, which again, because of the structure of Veeky Forums posts, does not declare a subject or a time frame. You can't because you can't and that's it, according to you. It's not like you failed before and who knows the future, no, you simply "can't". And then you say something extraordinary, because what you want is to get a "fullfilling job" doing something that "benefits humanity". Wow, not a small task, you just want the whole world. You are mourning that you can't get yourself in this perfect position of a fullfilled person working for the benefit of all mankind.

Which leads directly into your question, addressed to "someone", anyone, asking strangers online to "give" you in a totally one-way manner a "genuine" (which is "please don't lie to me") "reason", because you don't simply want an answer, you want an answer you can get through by reasoning, it must be something you can chew on.

"As to why life is worth living". Another way to phrase it: "why is life worth living?". As if it was already worth living from the start. You just don't know why it is so, but you know for sure that it is worth living. Not bad for someone who is complaining about it, you kind of know something people usually doubt.

To be worth of something. As if you'd have to watch how much is gained somewhere because of your life. Did humanity benefit on it? Are the sources of meaning pleased? Are you as excited about life as you imagine you ought to be? Do you have highscore in hedonism?

Life is worthless, not because it is less than worth it, but because it is not really that kind of transaction to begin with. Our values, reasons, meanings, pleasures, jobs, what you raise, all of that is what it is on its own, suspended only through our imagination. You want a right cause to fight or a right pleasure to have, but there is no such a thing, because there is no upper level, not religiously or naturally, that could validate an answer or tell you what to expect of a good answer. That is not to say you're out of causes or out of pleasures, but that perhaps the connection between doing things and trying to know if they are the correct ones to get done is weighting down on you so that nothing you do is good enough for life, worth of life.

I thought you were going to your parent's house to have a comfy Christmas user.

Great post. Thanks for this.

I guess i'm just alienated by the fact that while no objective meaning exists, i've failed attempting to pursue the subjective "meanings" we've constructed around biological urges.

Next week

If you're lonely I can be your pen pal

How old are you? Just out of curiosity.

Normie.

Born 1991
Lived in/near a student area with parents until graduating uni in 2015, STEM degree. Temporary warehouse job there. Other minor part time jobs since then. Not originally from London, didn't study there. Home city population ~200k (most likely Slough). Moved to London after March 2017, hence the increased posts (some date back to 2015)

Interning a government job in an open plan office, living in a flat 20-30 minutes commute from the centre (£26k p/a wage). "a civil servant, and probably studied political science or management"
Lives an easy distance from McDonald's, Gym & Tesco where he gets junk food.
Drives - not his own car, belonged to his mom.
Wears glasses

Areas often visited: Hyde Park, Aldgate East, Camden town, Notting hill Gate, Shoreditch, University of London (fits with the short commute, probably less than 30 minutes as he'll return home briefly for minor things). Generally anywhere in Zone 1.

Camden most commonly visited area, after Notting Hill.
"Notting hill carnival nearby" - NHG most likely "favourite" station, but unconfirmed. If "sitting around my favourite station" means actually inside, then less likely. If it means in the general vicinity, then still possible. Cost of living is unrealistic for 26k in these areas, but he often borrows money from parents

Regular use of both (Polish) brothels & escorts.

"Apart from having sex with prostitutes I've never done anything with girls, not even flirted. I have a normal westernised accent and grew up here but I have middle eastern parents. I'm fine with my height and all that stuff but I probably have an ugly face (it varies from 2 to 6 out of 10 depending on whether I'm looking in a mirror or taking a picture of myself etc)."

Most likely lives around Shoreditch due to income/rent levels, as well as mentions of Aldgate East. This contradicts his surprise at seeing AE when visiting, familiarity should have prevented this. Therefore maybe Ladbroke Grove/Latimer Road sort of way, in a shared flat in an ex-council block. It's possible he got very lucky with a flat in one of the ex council blocks near there. There's only a few, Nottingwood House and Winterbourne House. Matches with Tesco (express) and a nearby Gym but McDonald's is a bit of a trek from there. There is a McD and a Starbucks right by NHG.

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He's 26. Come on lad, keep up.

Sounds like you're me (except I live in Boston). SSRIs really helped desu.

What you're saying reminds me of this contemporary line of thinking that goes "life has no meaning, you have to build your own!". "You have to". We are surrounded by this discourse that tells us, do what you want, you can be whoever you want, taste whatever flavour you'd like, there is no objective force pushing you towards anything in particular, but, whatever you do, it must be meaningful to you. That turns a key in our heads that looks at everything we do and ask for what they mean to us. And suddenly we can't recognize things as valuable on their own, because we expect them to ressonate with some "meaning radar" that we think we ought to have been born with.

Most likely eldest son or only child as these types often are (see: poleaboo).
3 normie flatmates, not friends of his.

>it varies from 2 to 6 out of 10 depending on whether I'm looking in a mirror or taking a picture of myself etc
I don't understand guys that care this much about their looks.

Neither. I've seen some ugly fucks get 9/10s without even having money anyway.

Fuck. No wonder so many Pakis are joining ISIS

>2 to 6 out of 10

OP here. Update that to 2 to 4

Timestamp to prove it's you or no deal.

>full time job for 20 minutes
and you whine about it? how does one get a job like this

ha ha ha he thinks reading books is productive ha ha ha