Schopenhauer: The Philosopher Who Knew Life’s Pain
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- The amount of suffering in the world is vast, so observed Schopenhauer. Life is a constant striving, a relentless pursuit of desires and needs that keep appearing. So it’s no surprise that people label this philosopher ‘pessimistic’ and ‘dark.’ But his observations aren’t unfounded.
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00:00 - Intro
02:35 - Life and philosophy
05:40 - The will-to-live
08:37 - The world as a representation
10:39 - Why life sucks
15:42 - How to deal with life
He was never a pessimist but a realist. One of my favourite quotes from him that I find absolutely correct is “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
Damn, that's a good quote
An extraordinarily true statement, in my opinion. I've developed the sense of trying to balance the highs and lows to live my most fruitful life.
Pain yes, boredom never. I have faith in joy, to balance the pain, which leaves me in the centre (call it ‘the Middle Way’…), and if we can live out of our centre (heart, soul, spirit…) we live in peace; in love. This is the realism AS points towards.
I would say this outlook depends on the reality bubble you are encapsulated in 🫧
@adamelliott2302 you can actually only try but will never balance it. That's life, you can try to balance everything but you just cant.
I agree with Arthur Schopenhauer. Life just sucks. It's painful in many ways and he understood that. He didn't sugarcoat anything, he told it as it was. None of us asked to be here, and sometimes I wish I wasn't.
don't give up, experience the life as it is even with all that pain ;/
@@paulethwhy should we exactly? The temporary bits of happiness are few and far between. They only get our minds off of the harsh realities of life for a short time in the grand scheme of things.
@@HumanExperimentJstop the cap you have easy life you have more happiness then pain
But no one asked you to remain here.
@@TheGamer-sb3ry You don't know me or my life. You shouldn't assume everyone has it great. I'm very fortunate in many respects, but that doesn't mean I have no pain at all. Try to see things from others perspectives.
No rose without a thorn, but many a thorn without a rose. -- Schopenhauer
I find his views give me a sense of relief from that pressure of "I should be more happy than I am. Something's wrong." Letting go of that pressure ends up making me more happy.
Love your comment ❤❤
Can you pls elaborate a bit more?
@@yesvee7377 If I feel like I SHOULD be happy, it puts pressure on me to be happier, and makes me feel something's wrong if I'm not happy.
If I feel like it's completely normal to not be happy, I don't feel that pressure.
That feeling of relief from the pressure to feel happy feels pretty good.
@@QuestforaMeaningfulLife thanks for replying. Ok i get that if i accept not being happy is not a bad thing i'll release myself from the pressure of searching for happiness, but if not being happy then what's the purpose of life?
@@yesvee7377 Seems like a strange paradox that the less I try to be happy, the less I think about it and focus on it, the happier I tend to be.
"Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability", something most people are confronted with everyday. A wise man he was and one of my favourite philosophers by a country mile.
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@@walter_brown413 fucking bot comments 😂😂
A man of brilliance. I never chose to be here, but I guess since I am here I will try to make the best of a bad situation.
Yes. Avoid deliberately inflaming one's desires, and above all never bring another into existence without prior consent.
@@Torgo1969 Since it's impossible to get prior consent, then one should never bring another into existence.
@@kevincooper8232 Animals can't do that, but human can. So stop breeeed, human
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@@kevincooper8232with the advancement of technology I would disagree, life will only get better from here. It sounds as if you have inherent biases which distort your worldview to make it suit your narrative better. "I'm only single because life sucks and creating life is evil" keep telling yourself that.
Life is a forced existence. I didn't ask to be created. But I were created by my parents, for whatever reason. A life filled with loneliness and depression, that's what it resulted in, because of my absent and emotionally unavailable parents. I don't want to have my own kids, sex and marriage. But that makes it hard to find a partner. To bring another life into this world is a forced existence. A punishment for whatever reasons unknown.
The most depressed minded people are also the most intelligent, introspective and observant. Another great video, thank you.
Schopenhauer was a god amoung philosophers, Nietzsche a copycat and Fake Pessimist in my view, I would like to see a Whole Renaissance of Schopenhauer. Maybe a Movie even, I'm sure he ain't got a movie yet.
@@FirstmaninRome Nietzsche was inspired from him but we cannot assume that he was a copy cat, his work beyond good and evil is remarkable and a trailblazer
@@Knighted_Alexander I disagree, that is fascist Propaganda, lol
Those "most intelligent people" are not intelligent enough to see the lack of free will as well as the lack of self and live accordingly. That’s what drives them crazy and depressed.
@@Hormoz. Feel better about yourself now?
Schopenhauer to me is a very practical philosopher. He tells it how it is and doesn't sugar coat life or take the leap of faith as so many other philosophers do. I live my life to try to minamlize pain while prolonging pleasure. For instance i don't waste any time in the morning checking my phone or socials as that creates anxiety but instead get too it right away, get my hiking gear on and take my dog for a long hike in. Contrast that to staying in bed and death scrolling for an hour. I try to live my life in that manner. Making pleasure efficiently attainable whilst minamlizing the pain.
I need to do that too. Thanks!
I do the opposite, life is boring, and pleasure doesnt give me a feeling of living, I despise pleasure. So I go out of my way to make life more dangerous for myself, more harder and painful, suffering and pain are tokens of existence, its a rule of reality. And I see nothing wrong with it.
@@Ootatobagpain and anxiety (sayfrom hard training and trying to achieve goals), leads to a much higher release of dopamine than safety and certainty. So that makes sense.
@@Ootatobag Oh yeah, sure you sawed off your fingers before typing that comment with your nose to make it "more harder and painful" too, right?
I clicked on this video accidentally and it was exactly what I was looking for
Synchronicity!
If you take a wrong turn and end up in the right place, was it a wrong turn?
Algorithm
And then we die.
Hahaha ❤
Schopenhauer is the philosopher I agree the most with. So well made, Einzelgänger. Thank you.
Then you don't have a fulfilling life
@@simon_pender Perhaps, or I understand the reality of existence as a total beyond short bursts of "happiness" or blindly following meaningless mammalian urges. At least I'm blessed with the ability to reflect and detach. Take care, Mr. Pender.
Everywhere i go i see you peter parker
@@Peter_Parker69i wanna read his philosophy could you recommend an easy book to begin with?
Same. He gets a lot of hate though
"Life sucks, then you die." That sums it up nicely.
i wish i could explain this to my christian mom but i fear the response as it coming off as some sort of acto of rebellion so instead i share this video (piece of art) with you stranger.
IF your lucky. No God, life is tragic. With God, life is potentially horific-hell fire. Too risky life is a Beech and then U fry
@@chriswest8389 *horrific
Pretty much telling it how it is .
GOD loves all of you
I have visited Schopenhauer's gravesite at the Frankfurter Hauptfriedhof (Frankfurt Main Cemetery) many times. It is nothing elaborate, compared with the great many memorials in the cemetery. It is an unassuming gravesite, marked off by small hedges and a large flat stone marker on which is written: Arthur Schopenhauer.
No dates are given on the limestone marker.
His way of seeing life's nature, which is so realistic for me, is not easy to talk about. Most people find it 'spooky' and depressing.
You should look up "Gary Inmendham".
Yeah he isn't popular. You really have to understand what he's trying to say in his writings.
It is. I live on a sinking boat full of people shooting the floor, and nobody wants to throw them overboard. I hate humanity so goddamned much it's killing my neurons.
@@Dunge0nwow. That made me laugh
If suffering outweighs pleasures than one could make the argument that this reality is actually "hell".
Death is The Only SOLUTION
No People
No Problems
Have you ever heard inmendham.?
It is. Hell with scenery.
If reality is hell, then where's my harem of demon girls?
But if you set your brain in such a way that pain would cause pleasure then you will not suffer anymore
Yea we are at living HELL
This video has helped me reset my view on life to healthier expectations
Thank you!
Schopenhauer's brutal honesty is a breath of fresh air
especially in this age of false positivity and BS - make you want to be sick how fake society is today
@@user-wp5cw2ql7x so true, I find the most real and honest I am the more dislike you get from most people. It scary how most people live some kind of zombie like state
I've been one of those delusional individuals and still am in some ways, it's refreshing to hear such a take on the world
@@StoryMakerZ86Schopenhauer doesn't feel honest. his talks feel bitter, like he's coping with how unhappy he is by being longwinded about how unhappy he is
As soon as I saw the thumbnail I immediately clicked on it schopenhaur is such a nice philosopher 90% of his philosophies are so true he is one of the only philosophers who cares not about what sounds good but what is actually the truth thank you enzelganger for bringing this video
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This man was the realist not the pessimist
Schopenhauer killed me, but set me free at the same time.
I'm so grateful 🙏
Even trying to remain healthy is no guarantee and we end up sick anyway. Life not only sucks, it's a crap shoot. Becoming ill is inevitable anyway, no matter how healthy someone tries to be. In fact, one could prolong their suffering by trying so hard to remain healthy.
Exactly.
You could die instantly in a war or accident.
Your perspective is on point,, wow well said .life really sucks big time.
Didn't know about Schoppenhauer, but i was already thinking this way. Exciting to hear about someone who wrote about it.
My mom said it a lot and I came to the realization fast. Best to accept what is known. At least suffering allows for growth and joy on occasion.
When you consider conscious life on this planet as a whole which includes human and non-human animals, the conscious suffering which exists clearly outweighs the non-suffering hence why it should all end. For example, assuming that lions and gazelles are sentient beings which I believe they are who can suffer, a lion who experiences stomach pains because it has not eaten in days is suffering. A gazelle who runs in fear and then gets its neck snapped by a lion is suffering. That is just one example of suffering which exists every single day and the only way to stop it is to end their lives, peacefully if possible. So with all things considered, it makes logical sense to end all life on this planet in order to prevent more suffering.
v.i.c.k.i.
Reminds me of True Detective Mathew Mcconahay monologue on life.
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The human experience is marked by suffering due to the fact that we have the will, the ambition and the desire of an immortal, all knowing and all powerful being. Yet, we are mortal, know a small amount compared to everything that exists and have little power over the universe. No doubt dissapointment is a constant, and the strain caused by the disparity between desire and reality is so intense.
Overall, Schopenhaur seems to have found a great, if not the best, way to experience life. By reducing our desires to levels more easy to obtain we can reduce the forementioned strain of existence.
I love this philosophy ! Makes me feel good about feeling bad.
When I first read Schopenhauer, I realized I was right all along.
😂👊
I really like his perspective. Would be nice to watch videos on a certain topic and the thoughts/differences between philosophers about it.
I like Albert Camus, Nietzsche, Carl Jung, Stoicism in general and Buddhism. Got plenty of books left to read!!
This has been my world view for the longest time. When I look at the world I see the infinite things that cause us pain and the very VERY few things that can actually bring people happiness or enjoyment in comparison.
A healthy poor person is happier than a rich sick person. No truer words spoken
But sometimes health comes with wealth .
@@hadi_drumsexactly lol 🤦🤦🤦🤦😒😒😒😒✌️✌️✌️✌️
No man or woman is happy being poor poverty can't buy happiness but being rich can!
You can't be poor and happy and if you can well than your delusional
@@blacklyfe5543 but can it buy health? Will being rich help you or make you happy if it makes everyone want to kill you to get some. How many rich folks die young and alone. Think about these things young man.
Thanks for sharing. I read Schope in my 20s and to say that the work resonated with me would be an understatement. But just the other day I made a pessimistic comment on an internet forum and I was accused of "basing my worldview off of rick and morty". The realist outlook characterized by Schope has endured for centuries (see Ecclesiastes in The Bible) yet THE MODERN AUDIENCE can only think in terms of the last few years.
I like to think Schopenhauer was as funny as Rick and Morty.
What did you say to garner that response?
@@simon_pender I replied with "Bingo!" to someone who posted: "If humanity and this world is the best we've got then everyone is beyond doomed."
Why do you expect people to know about 19th century German black pillers?
I am thrilled with today because I know it is one step closer to the change into another vehicle of life. This body is disintegrating, and that's a very hopeful and happy occurence. Chest pain and muscle weakness make me laugh. But then the laughing transforms the condition into "normal" status. I want to join my Mom and Dad. They know that and laugh with me.
Existing in this approach one day at a time makes life totally enjoyable. While making a meal, there is no guarantee I will be here to complete eating it. So I won't have to wash the dishes! Call me crazy, but know I am HAPPY with what is called living for today. Love. That's all I "feel."
Hmm. I like that.
I wish I felt that way. Hate and anger is probably 90% of my feelings nowadays.
@@joleaneshmoleane8358 Hi Katie! I am so glad to hear you express those qualities as "feelings!" That gives me a guarantee that it is NOT YOU! And those feelings are like the meals you eat, they can be changed whenever you choose. Do I love the government? Do I enjoy the gun murders in the current history? No. But I can't change any of that stuff. All I can change are the thoughts in my head that would create some awful feelings. So today I laugh at what the government gets away with, and I LOVE the deceased murder victim who is now in full happiness of the other world, whom I shall join one day. Hope you join me in erasing the thoughts that aren't fun! Love ya',. 🥰
Love your comment ❤
Health is important to happy
Grateful ❤
Nas: Life’s a bitch, then you die.
Me: Word.
Yessss!! As Oprah Winfrey would say 'That's a lightbulb moment!' I wish I had read about him sooner. I thought it was just MY life that's sucked. I look around and see many happy people. But it's true that MY life has been full of pain, heartache, sadness and loss. So it's nice to find a fellow sufferer.
Oprah?
You see masks of people who appear "happy" to others. Just like others see a mask of you .
Your here qouting Oprah? 😂😂😂😂. Dude, be depressed.
Do you know David Benatar's ' Better not to have been ' ? I only came across it a couple of years ago - the YT algorithm threw it up when I was reviewing Schopenhauer.
I have been an anti natalist most of my life but I thought I was the only one . When I saw the Benatar video I was moved by the comments section . Literally thousands of people with anti natalist and Schopenhauer type sentiment. Just knowing that you are not alone is a comfort. ✌️🕊️
Well Schopenhauer and I have the same mindset. Heck If he still alive today. He would be my best friend
Struggling with meaning everyday is tough
‼️🤔 Life Sucks for two reasons and two alone, Peeple suhck & having to work for money 💰 ‼️
‼️ The BIGGEST tragedy of our human existence iz wasting away at a workplace thaht most uv uz hayte, even if U R one of those peeps that say " if U love what U do, U'll never work A day" or 👁 Love my job", U R telling mee U Woold'nt rather be hiking,biking, boating, skiing ⛷️camping 🏕, traveling the 🌎 or a hundred other fun more self fulfilling activities of or learning to become the best version of U ⁉️
‼️ 👁 Liv A great lyfestyle, but beecuz every wurkplace 👁 get into - no matter what the type of wurk iz - thee Peeple mayke it suhck, subsequently 👁 can't fully enjoy my great lyfestyle - while continplating going back to wurk Monday through Friday, peeps suhck ‼️
NEWCASTLE CALIFORNIA,USA 🇺🇸
"When i tried to find evil in the world, i could not find it. When i peaked inside myself, i realised i was the most evil"
- Sant Kabir
Hesse said something very like it.
@@staffanhultman8399 Sant Kabir said it in the Fifteenth century while Hesse was a twentieth century poet
Human beings inherently wicked l can demonstrate if required...
That's part of the guilt trip that keeps us stuck here. Good luck with this point of view.
When I first heard Schopenhauer was a "pessimist", I was quite surprised. I thought he was an optimist. I still believe that and I'm taken aback every time I hear it said he's a pessimist. Schopenhauer explains how life is, and what one can do to engineer one's life to make it successful, or perhaps, to more easily breeze through life. For me, what he says about life is true, I don't see that as pessimism, but fact. And his remedies are just common sense. Wisdom of Life is one of my favorite all time reads.
I went for the ascetic life. I could make lots of money, sleep with beautiful girls, and all of that, and then I decided to follow an ascetic lifestyle. Now I am an intellectual reader, and am interested in feeding my mind. I am happier.
What's amazing is how much this cheered me up. Thank you.
currently one's of my favorite channel on youtube.
pls never stop doing this.
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Amazingly edited and crafted... Loved it.
Bleak but realistic
Shope for Pope!
I find his reasoning so easy to follow. It tells it like it is and doesn’t lie that this world is wonderful. I think it sucks but we have no choice but to limit the pain cause it’s ALWAYS there. His thoughts and writings resonate throughout my life. Life truly sucks. As Wesley said in the Princess Bride “ life is pain… anyone who says it isn’t is trying to sell you something “. Wesley was a genius. I wonder if he read a lot of Shope while pirating for 5 years?
Wesley contemplated his own execution most nights for years; I assume this influenced him.
@@namedrop721 I’m sure it may of influenced him
Youth is optimism with bits of pessimism, ageing is the opposite. Enjoy all the good and the bad, regardless. Life is short.
I wouldn’t call it pessimistic.
It’s more about no one wants to hear how the world truly is.
My earliest memories are from my kindergarten time.
I was put in a corner with funny little toys and told to wait till my family will pick me up in the afternoon.
I still can remember my thoughts like it was yesterday:
„So. That’s what they call life. It’s feeling alien. I don’t want to be here. I don’t want to spend my time playing with toys. Isn’t there anything else…“
Later in life I noticed the same. Family’s birthday party’s came and went. Same boring talks year after year. Birthday after birthday. People got older. Many of them died already.
No one of them has achieved anything. Can we achieve anything in a mortal life? Can we achieve anything in an eternal life. Which one would me more frightful? 🫣
What a mess. I will try my best. But I will be really happy when an end of this absurdity arrives. Maybe it will be accompanied by fear. But deep inside I know I will be the luckiest I have ever been.
This channel is not only therapeutic but incredible in trying to understand “the point of life” philosophy! I get such epiphanies from it
I don't find greater philosopher than Arthur Schopenhauer. He is the king of Philosophy. ❤
Thank you for creating ❤
There is no heaven on earth and each one of us has their own battle, no matter our origin, gender, location, financial situation. I wish everyone to fight this battle in the most decent, human and mindful way. We are all in the same boat here.
that "boat" seems to be the Titanic then... ha.
@@Human1136 😂
Oh my word. I love his way of approach..
Extremely well done. Love your stuff and this one hit different.
Schopenhauer verry underrated
Comment is an understatement!
I'm very in tune with Schopenhauer's philosophy because it's realistic, it says the things as they are experienced in the world, so it helps me to focus on what I can do to adapt to all this pain. Thank you.
I just want to say, i really love your videos
Wonderful video, thank you. I spend my life trying to find reasons to.....just proceed. I'm afraid to study Schopenhauer because I know I resonate deeply with his thoughts, despite life's advances since his era.
Deeply thought-provoking. Thank you
I overcame the hardships of life by doing this:
Embrace the negativity of this life and accept it, reduce my desires, live a simple life, have faith, and know that this life is temporary and what comes after is THE real life. Happiness and suffering greatly depend on mentality and perception. If you change that, you will have a happy and beautiful life.
It was the philosophy that I wanted you to expand. Great work as usual.
the premise of pleasure being linked to negative influence is fascinating. reminds me of that old adage: "everything in moderation, except moderation"
So clearly explained, your videos shed light exactly in the relevant points. Thank you very much.
❤ Thank U! Your videos give words of strength to face this world! There is indeed a vast amount of pain in this world, Schopenhouer had the sensibility to realize about it.
Such burst of positive energy
great video
GJ and tnx
I needed this! Thank you!
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My kind of human. He saw life for what it is.
Thank you, Schopenhauer is my most Beloved Philosopher 👌
One of your best videos Einzelgänger! I was just reading these last days the second part of "The world as will and representation" :D.
almost all people not aware of this, going through life like they deserve to be happy. now they will chase it at the expense of other people. why not break the cycle? why not stop chasing the money or the lifestyle? some people are getting this by choosing to have few or no children, or people that choose minimalism, or people that avoid the city and live remotely.
The older I get the more pessimistic I get. I’ve even had people say to me, you use to be more positive what happen? I just simply tell them, I realize what’s really going on around me.
to put it bluntly, it sounds like a skill issue
Yeah I can’t fake it anymore my Charakter hast changed i don’t tryna vibe with people anymore
I would have gotten along well with Herr Schopenhauer. Lots of time at the theater, and art galleries. Shared walks. Music concerts. Discussions of Buddhism. A good life.
Your dramatic pauses are right on point.
@Einzelgänger I love almost all of your video and I am excited whenever you post a new one, but I think I will sit this one out for now. I don't think my mental space is well enough for Schopenhauer's perspective on life 😅
Well presented my good man 🙏
Very helpful, thank you and grace to your on your path 😌
Your Schopenhauer videos are my favorites :)
I really like your videos, it helps me alot. Thank You.🙏🏻
I realised this when at a young age I saw animals struggling to live and survive , in the wild, on the streets, in factory farms. That made me more aware of the suffering that humans too have to go through just to survive. Life is suffering and is unfair. It takes away everything you love. Dealth is ultimate cruel aspect of life.
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! Thank you!
🎵Life’s a piece of shit When you look at it!
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
This channel is beyond amazing. Always awesome educational content 👍
Nice video, great animations!
It's the not knowing that is simultaneously the source of life's greatest pains and its greatest pleasures. For example: How did he know about the crystalline nature of the Moon? Fascinating😇
very good job, SCHOPENHAUER is my favorite philosopher, you should do more colab videos with him
Great video thanks
Another fantastic essay by Einzelgänger.
What really grinds my gears are people that discuss Life in a state of Nature as some kind of beautiful thing. When in reality my aphorism is much more accurate "Nature is a giant restaurant with babies on the menu". Or as Werner Herzog put it "A harmony of overwhelming and collective murder".
Thanks for the vid made me feel home.
Schopenhauer philosophy is considered dark and pessmistic, and it is, but, odd enough, when I first read 'The World as Will and Representation', this book turned out to be very inspirational for me. And now this book is one of the main books of my life. This is because during reading 'The World as Will and Representation' I was focused not on the pessimism of Herr Arthur, which seemed for me to be not well founded, but rather on key statements which for me were the most important.
1) The world is the free Will. For me, it is the best explanation of what the world is and why it exists. On the one hand, this statement doesn't involve any supernatural, separated from the world and unknowable existence like God. On the other hand, the world still has it's purpose, it's goal - it exists... to exist. Existence is meaningful, because every living subject, every particle, every single grain of sand is full of movement the goal for which is existence. This is much better than materialistic approach, which tells us that any 'goal' is some kind of illusion created by electrons and chemicals in one's brain and that the world exists for nothing.
2) The Subject is equal to the Object. There is a materialistic view, which tells that any subject is just kind of illusion created by electrons and chemicals in one's brain. Materialists sometimes argue that subject doesn't even exist. But how am I supposed to receive the answer how I should behave, what I should do, what kind of life I should live, if my philosophy tells me that I don't exist at all?! Also all we know that if there is some information, it is subjective. Source of the information is always subjective experience. There is no any means to obtain information about the Object without the Subject or prove the Object's existence independent on the Subject. So, it is some of natural to believe that the Subject is equal to the Object and both exist simultaneously.
There is more: the idea of one Subject and also the well founded ethic system.
Of course, Schopenhauer's magnus opus is quite old and the lack of scientific knowledge of the 21st century sometimes feels during the reading. Even Darwin's theory of evolution wasn't yet developed the time Herr Arthur wrote his main work. So, there are many statements which are incompatible with modern science. However in its core this philosophy is genius.
Excellent write up! Kudos to you!
Shopenhauer is a philosopher not a scientist and I am very happy about that.
It's Schopenhauer with a mix of Hume that makes more sense to me towards things like death and why life is the way it is.
I have read Schope, but I'm still fairly ignorant, so I should check out some Hume.
Yeah, it took me months to realise what they mean, probably years. These things take time I think. I see Schopenhauer everywhere now.
This is a very good video, by the way.
Thank you, great video!
Very well made!
One must strive to alleviate suffering from life. There are several strategies to do so:
- Eat healthy & workout thrice a week
- Practice spirituality or meditate
- Avoid negative people & drama
- Build healthy social & romantic relationships
- Practice gratitude
- Delve in art (read, paint, sculpt, practice woodwork)
- Volunteer & help those in need
Thank you for this video.
I long for at least a painless death. Living is constant pain.
Never stop making videos man! Like never!
This was srangely comforting, as similar thoughts have been on my mind for many years.
Congrats for this video!! I started following you. Nice content and I am sure, great effort behind to do so! thanks.
So basically telling the truth is pessimistic.
In a fantasy world ruled by lies and liars? Yes.