how to stop taking life so serious?

[xXSufferingXx]

idk if you heard of retardmaxxing, it's like a joke thing online, but it actually makes a little sense.
and it's not meant to be offensive, i'm not the one who came up with the term.
it's the encouragement to throw away your overthinking and your over-worrying and just live more mindlessly,
because those people never seem to get depressed, they just enjoy what's going on around them and they make rushed decisions.

it's obviously very hard to just throw away your core fundamental mentality/personality,
but i have been successful sometimes just throwing the dice at something and taking a gamble instead of overthinking it.
and i feel proud of myself afterwards because i've been playing it OVERLY safe all my life.

we're all gonna die anyway, so all this adult shit... fuck it.

to answer my own question from the title; i know drugs and alcohol would probably do the job, but that's not a road i'm gonna go down.
i just gotta work with myself and kinda reprogramme myself into not taking this shit planet so seriously.

no matter how bad it is; luckily we all die in the end and get rescued from our misery lol.

 

[DeathWish3301]

idk if you heard of retardmaxxing, it's like a joke thing online, but it actually makes a little sense.
and it's not meant to be offensive, i'm not the one who came up with the term.
it's the encouragement to throw away your overthinking and your over-worrying and just live more mindlessly,
because those people never seem to get depressed, they just enjoy what's going on around them and they make rushed decisions.

it's obviously very hard to just throw away your core fundamental mentality/personality,
but i have been successful sometimes just throwing the dice at something and taking a gamble instead of overthinking it.
and i feel proud of myself afterwards because i've been playing it OVERLY safe all my life.

we're all gonna die anyway, so all this adult shit... fuck it.

to answer my own question from the title; i know drugs and alcohol would probably do the job, but that's not a road i'm gonna go down.
i just gotta work with myself and kinda reprogramme myself into not taking this shit planet so seriously.

no matter how bad it is; luckily we all die in the end and get rescued from our misery lol.

Only suggestion I can make is read up on philosophy that covers thlse topics (absurdism, pessimism, existentialism, etc.). There's tons of literature out there.

 

[Forever Sleep]

To an extent, I've done this- in so far as I stopped feeling so ambitious to pursue my career. That was kind of a double edged sword really. It had the benefit of giving me drive and motivation. However- realistically- I was unlikely to climb that high anyway. I don't have the skills/ talent for it and my confidence crumbles around others. I also lived with a sense of failure and tension that I wasn't doing enough for so long- that it was nice to let that go.

I think also- my inner decision to not comply so much to what is expected of all of us has clamed my mindset down. Again- mostly regarding work. That I need to be working all the time. That I need to build up a pension. I think having ideation can calm some of those worries. Corpses don't need pensions!

Maybe being a middle aged adult too, people go on less to you- about what you should be doing: 'You need to get out and socialise more. If you don't find a partner soon- you'll be left on the shelf. You need to do this or that domestically or career- wise.'

Maybe they view it as too late now for me to do certain things. I suppose as well- however you've lived- you've proved you can remain alive and they probably realise how stubborn we are to not do certain things by this age.

I think a lot of the pressures we feel are put on us by others. When those pressures ease up or, we decide to ignore them- we maybe get a clearer idea of what we want to prioritize in life. We may decide that we simply won't get anxious about not climbing high enough in our career if we figure out it actually isn't so important to us.

Plus- some mindsets don't help us at all. I tend to catastrophize about certain things which- really didn't do me many favours. Just made life unpleasant.

To change though- I think first- we need to examine how we think and which parts of our thinking are beneficial/ detrimental. After that- I think it can be a conscious decision almost- I'm going to try and relax more about this particular thing. Plus- like you say- maybe acting in ways more nonchalantly than usual.

 

[cbtvvxxvvv]

i can vouch for retardmaxxing. we take things too serious and with extra stressors on our already miserable lives, giving up and taking it a day at a time. doing what you please and not focusing on maintaining an image or set path in life whether that's career, a bf or gf, finances, status ANYTHING!

2026 we all retardmaxxing