Nihil, short for nihilism, simply means nothing. Yeah, I've been alive for 26 years, but I've never really lived as me. I've felt dead inside for the majority of the time. My core identity is female, I so badly wish to be perceived as and live as a woman, and to be called by my true name. But, my true self has never existed. My true name has never been legalized. Instead, I must stay and have been stuck as a male disguise in order to survive in this mad world. Being a disguise rewards me socioeconomically, improves job prospects, gives me less discrimination, and affords me shelter. People like my disguise more and are happier all around. Many people in the real world like me as nothing and I get a "better quality" of living in this backwards society for being nothing. Be my true female self, I get harrassed, threatened with homelessness, could lose employment, have been groped and mocked and yelled at, and have others actually try to talk me into suicide. Real world, mind you. I legitimately fear for my life if I try to be me.
So yeah, I've had my dreams smashed repeatedly, lived as a lie majority of my life, battling poverty most of my life, and been treated like garbage in more ways than one for trying to be "me," whatever that is. I don't really exist. Avatar used to be a purple-black-blue void, but I figure a disintegrating female figure dissolving into black mist better describes whatever the hell I am. But hey, things have been better as of late for continuing to go forward as a lie. I'm no longer threatened with homelessness, I don't have to worry about food, I'm making money while working at a fancy place atop a tower, and I was finally able to afford a car. All at the expense of being 100% dead inside. At least all the BS materialistic possessions doing something I never originally wanted to do with my life makes up for it, right? Long as I'm making money, why shouldn't I be happy?
Sorry for the side vent. But yeah, that's my explanation for my username and avatar.