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Author here, half an adult i'd say. It was meant to be a stream of consciousness unloading exercise, my first one at that. I have no idea why people are upvoting it.



You're probably getting upvoted because there's a kernel of truth in it. Many of the very intelligent people I know have followed this line of thought at one point or another. I have as well, multiple times.

It keeps coming back to "what's the point of what I'm doing?" and I've personally yet to find any sort of answer that speaks to any sort of higher truth than "I'm here, now what?"


A good read, though I think Solomon's version is more evocative.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1-...


I upvoted it because, as another commenter said, I have had much the same thoughts before. Some weeks/months I'll have these thoughts everyday.

So basically, I upvoted because I identify with what you wrote.


Glad I could do that. I wrote it in a pretty down state, so it pretty much wrote itself albeit the imperfect language and structure.




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