I don't understand what the point is. ?

Question

Why should I wake up in the morning? Why should I talk to people? Why should I bother doing anything? I don't get it.

I always wondered why people seem so content with the crap that goes on. How can a man be so happy with a job in an office, where he works away and dedicates his waking life to some stupid corporate project? How can a woman be happy slaving away as a mother to ungrateful brats who will grow up and throw her into a nursing home? How can kids in school work and work at stupid crap like clubs and sports, and fill up their time with student council and studying, trying to get into colleges that will just overcharge them for their education and throw them into eternal debt, while they try their damndest to be able to buy groceries with a paycheck that could be beaten by McDonald's without a degree?

I don't get it. I ponder. I wonder. There has to be something more.

I feel like a rodent in a cage. Here I am, sitting at my computer, playing games. Oh, nice, a new item! Excellent! In fact, I was just playing World of Warcraft, and a guildmate just got a rare item in that game. Everyone in guild chat made a big announcement about it like they just gave birth or something. Why? It's a game. It's designed to keep you fat and happy, and to make you docile, to suck your money out of your pocket.

So what if I wasn't docile? What if I didn't have all of today's newest trends, fashions, health foods, and cars to keep me fat and happy? Then what? What would I do? I don't know. Life would be just as pointless. I'd live a terribly boring life. So I wonder - on one hand, you have this incredibly stupid existence, surrounded by consumerism, materialism, fake food that is full of artifical crap and chemical crap that humans were, quite frankly, never meant to mess with - and on the other, you have this boring, harsh existence without any of that. Where is the balance? I can't seem to find it. I don't even know why I wake up in the morning.

People are rot. They are organisms that are not to be trusted. They do everything for themselves, and nothing for others - nothing unless they have some sort of benefit to gain from it. The ONLY REASON you can go to the store and buy pre-packaged food products that are conveniant and tasty to you, is because some asshole decided it would be a good way to make money. They don't give two shits worth a damn about your convenience or your life. If they could make money off of selling decapitated infants to cannibals in South America, they would. And if it made more money than pleasing your fat ***, they would focus on that.

So I go back to my original question. Why? Why. What is the point? Because I don't see one. I see misery, I see selfishness, I see hamsters in a huge cage, running in a wheel, oblivious to everything outside of their meaningless little world, full of NFL, NASCAR, Diet Coke, Burger King, Oscar-Meyer precooked bacon (it's easy and convenient!), Ford Explorers, Gucci, and a host of other crap that makes them think they are what they are not - but we've all been raised to think that we're all going to be big, rich hip-hop stars one day, to be featured on MTV Cribs or on some reality show.

I hope the planet burns.

Thanks for reading.

Answer 1

If this life is all there is and there is no eternal purpose, then you are being way too optimistic. Things are way worse than you believe. You don't stand a chance of making sense of this world.

Answer 2

The point is to enjoy life.



Not everyone works at meaningless jobs they hate. Many work at things they love, or at least like doing, for causes they truly believe in.



It's not true that getting a college degree gets as low an income as flipping burgers (which isn't a living wage at all).



Not all children are ungrateful brats.



Yes, games are games. Yes, some people get over-excited about them. So what? If they're having fun, what's it to you?



There's no reason to let fad run your life. Is there nothing you enjoy? Are there no people you like to be around, just 'cause?



Not all food is crap. Learn to cook. It's cheaper, tastier, and can be more fun than eating crap.



People are NOT rot. Some people CAN be trusted in many thing. It's simply not true that no one does things for others -- millions, tens of millions do, all the time.



There are people who do what they do simply for the money; others for other reasons, such as doing good; most for a combination.



You see nothing but misery? You've never in your whole live seen any person enjoy anything at all? I find that a bit hard to believe.



Uh, I'm not into any of the things you list -- Gucci, etc.



No, I've never thought I was going to be a big, rich, hip-hop (or any other kind of) star. YUCK!



Shut down the computer, put on some music, and sing and dance.



If what you wrote is really all you feel, then talk to your school counselor.

Answer 3

This is probably not true, but I sense that you're young like me growing up, getting to know the world and reality and you're not liking some of the stupid **** that goes on in it!! I'm 23 and I'm surprised that I understand more so soon as opposed to most my age who don't have any direction.



I'll give you some more target practice, stupid celebrities, retarded reality shows, mainstream subliminal brainwashing...oops I mean 'music' and tv, asshole politicians, entitlement pricks, overpaid athletes and most of all...the SHEEP, YOU people that follow all this garbage, vote every 4 years because EVERYONE ELSE DOES, slave away at that restaurant so you can buy that gucci purse just to impress your slut brigade, don't pay that rent so you buy those penis pills because you're an insecure pathetic moron. Don't you know about the effects those things have? If women even remotely cared about size they would all be dating pornstars! Plus, it only looks big. They change the camera angle and perspective to fool you into buying this so you can wallow in your insecurity. Don't even get me started on politics aka a two party system that sucks our money dry by playing with it and wasting it. Every 4 years zombies line up for bread and circuses and that perpetuates EVEN MORE bread and circuses.



To answer all this, to me the point of all this is to live and do as you please and don't hurt anybody!! Be free. Think for yourself, don't do what others do. If I had a choice between shady friends and being alone forever I'll gladly take being alone.

Answer 4

Yes!!! Let' s go! I can get into your whole consumerism, working for someone who doesn't even care about you rant, but some of it, I have to disagree with. Mothers love their children. They don't expect them to treat them with disrespect and throw them in a nursing home! Sports and games are exciting, fun, and challenging if you like that particular game. It pumps our blood and makes us happy. We don't have to make it through the day, but if we are going to, we might as well do something that makes us smile.



But what makes us smile? Going to work for someone who doesn't give two s***s about you? That doesn't get me off. That's why I'm having such a difficult time finding a job. I don't want to work to make someone else rich. That' s the most idiotic thing I've ever heard! Why are you slaving to sell cheap, over-produced shoes to people for 7 bucks an hour? Why are you slaving to sell groceries to someone for 6 bucks an hour? Why don't we just do it ourselves? Grow your own damn vegetables, and use the money to go down the street and buy a nice pair of shoes that will last forever from the guy who actually makes good shoes. The problem with the world is that we have no skills. Nobody can do anything for themselves anymore.



What? you mean, I can sew my own dress?? UH YEAH! and guess what? Nobody else will have the same dress. Why is it so disgusting to be seen in something homemade that's made of better quality than the crap you buy for $10 at the mall? We have all been slowly trained to depend on consumerism to the point that we don't have any skills to know how to take care of ourselves. The only thing we have left to do is go work like mindless robots and sell the things other people are making. If you are one of the few people with a skill, do you think you'll make it far in the world? Try becoming a shoemaker and selling good quality shoes as a means for survival. You won't get any business, because people don't want to pay for quality. People don't know the value of quality anymore. They want cheap things they can just throw away. Why do you go to the dollar store and buy things that break the instant you use them. You just have to keep buying them.



There is no point. We've been trained to accept it and we do. But if you don't want to be that way, if you see how stupid it is to slave for someone else's selfish needs...life's a big piece of crap.

Answer 5

If you can pull yourself away from your computer long enough, I would suggest you pick the phone up and call a therapist. You are quite pessimistic, but I think you know that already. Your world, wow! and most people will not read your essay/question. It is a good thing to journal your thoughts but you really need to do this privately on paper. The world may suck to you but I assure you there are many, many people helping others, the planet, and their own little corner of it. Do you ever do anything nice for someone else because the feelings of giving far outweigh what yours are. May I suggest you try it because you will never understand the point of it until you do.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I recommend some self soothing exercises.



My guess is that maybe your expectations are/were unrealistic. Try and appreciate the little things, and don't worry you'll be dead soon.



added; I think it's sad that people think you are suffering from a mental illness because you have made obvious and astute observations about life. It is possible to be unsatisfied with the status quo, without being ill, people.

Answer 8

You hope the planet burns? the society will but the planet stays. All of hwat you just wrote says to me that you have no life outside your computer. You need a positive purpose in life. Here's mine.



Do good towards others and have compassion for soon this will all be past us.At least i feel good on my misery.

Answer 9

there is no point.. that is the point.



there is nothing else to do so we do this.



its the reason one day we will destroy ourselves through sheer boredom alone.



but until then id suggest travelling a bit, see some of the world... it will help:)

Answer 10

You are showing very obvious signs of depression. Do get help, for your own sake.

Answer 11

Thanks for the cheery thought. I've been off work for 2 weeks (holiday time) and you almost made it fun to go back!

Answer 12

You could be suffering from depression.