in fact, living in interesting times (or interesting situations, or interesting lifes) is considered a curse in china, because of all the responsibility and stress that comes with it.
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yourgodlucifer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Am I the only one who finds comfort in being insignificant in the grand scale of the universe?
I’m just a speck my problems don’t matter in the grand scale of things I don’t want to be significant I want to be forgotten.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I like their expression “the nail that sticks up gets hammered down”.
Mossheart@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The tallest blade of grass is the first one cut by the lawnmower.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The rest of it is just rocks in space.
Rocks don’t have problems eitherItemWrongStory@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
I don’t get why people want their problems to have cosmic importance, but the scale of the universe just makes me feel like there is so much I’ll never get to see. And if there is no other life in the universe, then all those amazing worlds with utterly unique phenomena will never be observed.
baines@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
you didn’t exist much longer than you’ve been alive by a very large factor
whelk@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
This is why I get a lot of comfort stargazing at night. So much stress or worry melts away when the realization hits that nothing really matters anyway. I don’t think this is quite what Tolkien was going for with the scene where Sam sees a star up through a small opening in the gloomy sky when he’s struggling, but it’s how I took it.
I think the tricky part for some people is trying to figure out why living life should matter at all, then, but it’s always worked for me. Just because a moment ends doesn’t mean that the moment shouldn’t matter to you, if you find it fulfilling or meaningful.