Do you ever take a step back from your distractions and ask yourself, “Why do I bother?”

[Weebster]

I distract myself mostly with books, but I'm tired of reading. This isn't what I wanted to spend my life doing. So I have a few books on my list, but I realized that if I were to die today for whatever reason those books wouldn't matter, and that they only matter while I'm reading them.

For those whose life isn't comprised of distractions, this question doesn't make much sense. It's really for those who only have distractions to occupy them. I suppose relationships and a job are a distraction from inevitable death, but I don't see it that way.

 

[FuneralCry]

Overall, I see no point to living. Life is just a pointless experience that we go through for the sake of it. I try to distract myself to pass the time, but I do not enjoy anything. That is what life basically is, we are just distracting ourselves until we finally die. Life is just one big distraction from death. I am only still alive as it is so difficult to ctb. I am tired of everything, nothing interests me and I struggle to concentrate. My days are very long.

 

[NoLightRemains]

My life is nothing but distractions right now. I am often unable to motivate myself to do these distractions, but even when I do I sometimes just feel like it's all just pointless tools I use to cope with reality. I could be fully absorbed in a task, but then the existential dread just creeps in anyways. It's exhausting.

 

[symphony]

All the goddamn time. Distraction is just about the only strategy I have left, but it amounts to covering your amputated leg with a blanket. Doesn't solve anything, just makes the issue a little less visible for the time.

 

[Hurt]

Sometimes I find myself doing something I like and then I ask myself what's the point if all I want is to end my life..