Life is just a bunch of distractions

believenothing January 12, 2023 at 06:18 4475 views 18 comments
We are all probably going to die, I doubt that anyone has ever survived. What we do in the mean time is mostly mundane and inconsequential. I'm exhagerating. What I mean to get across is that it seems most people are wasting their time instead of investing real effort into worthy activities. Who knows what a worthy activity is? If we are all going to die and all we can leave behind with any chance of lasting is either children or wisdom or both, then how many people are not really investing into the future? If we are not busy inventing or creating things that will outlive us then we are probably just distracted by reality.. Life is just a bunch of distractions. If you were not already focussed on something, then what would you be doing exactly?

Comments (18)

believenothing January 12, 2023 at 06:46 #771708
Distractions are everywhere and I could summerise by pointing out that reality is a distraction. All the really cool stuff and important stuff lives in the realm of the unreal and the yet to be and maybe in the past. If it wasn't for the dreamers and the thinkers then we wouldn't really be able to make any progress. I can't stop wandering if there is any meaning for anything, or any ultimate goal that can be reached before the end of everything?
believenothing January 12, 2023 at 07:00 #771709
Maybe ideas are not important until they are made real? But then they just become distractions..? Can someone please enlighten me?
180 Proof January 12, 2023 at 07:24 #771715
Living, after all, is only a distraction from dying. My life distracts me (less with each passing decade) from my death. And so it goes. C'est la vie. Amor fati.

:death: :flower:
TheMadMan January 12, 2023 at 11:08 #771769
Reply to believenothing "An unexamined life is not worth living".
Everything is a distraction to an untrained dog.
Work on your attention.
Let not your monkey mind lead your life.
Pantagruel January 12, 2023 at 11:25 #771770
Reply to believenothing If nothing survived our transitory being then there would be no progress. But there is progress, culture advances, knowledge grows. So in some way, we do participate in a collective enterprise that does endure. Which is meaningful.
universeness January 12, 2023 at 14:07 #771798
Fun, happiness, joy, belonging, common experience, love, cause (even a hopeless one), dreams, imagination, awe, wonder, inspiration, aspiration, hope and this list is not a complete list.
A fulfilled life does not knock on your door and offer itself to you in a pretty box with a nice bow on top:
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punos January 12, 2023 at 14:24 #771800
Reply to believenothing

What exactly are you being distracted from that you don't want to be distracted from?
ChatteringMonkey January 12, 2023 at 14:37 #771801
Quoting believenothing
Can someone please enlighten me?


Yes I can enlighten you, you seem to be under the assumption that something is only meaningful if it persists indefinitely or something is only meaningful relative to some ultimate goal or consequence. In that case nothing is meaningful because of the ultimate heat dead of the universe, but more importantly the choice of ultimate consequences or goals as the only thing that is relevant is arbitrary, and need not be the only way we look at meaning.
Joshs January 12, 2023 at 14:38 #771802
Reply to punos Quoting punos
?believenothing

What exactly are you being distracted from that you don't want to be distracted from?


Participating in the OP he started?
Agent Smith January 12, 2023 at 14:54 #771807
To me the distractions is life. We're not here on some kinda mission to do something specific. We're here to look around, explore, create a magnificent mandala and watch it being blown away ... into oblivion by the careless wind. This is not, I repeat this is not, a military operation! :grin:
180 Proof January 13, 2023 at 02:53 #772035
[quote=Leonardo da Vinci]While I thought I was learning to live, I have been learning to die.[/quote]
TiredThinker January 13, 2023 at 04:58 #772051
Reply to believenothing

Nothing we make will live long after us. DaVinci's Mona Lisa isn't nearly as crisp as it once was. Hasn't even been a thousand years. Our accomplishments shouldn't be physical. Nothing lasts here.
Tom Storm January 13, 2023 at 05:33 #772058
Quoting believenothing
Life is just a bunch of distractions. If you were not already focussed on something, then what would you be doing exactly?


When I was around 10 my Dad told me that life was just filling in time until you die. He winked and said, 'Make it good and be of use to others.'
180 Proof January 13, 2023 at 05:40 #772066
Quoting Tom Storm
When I was around 10 my Dad told me that life was just filling in time until you die. He winked and said, 'Make it good and be of use to others.'

Wise man.

:death: :flower:
Agent Smith January 15, 2023 at 17:21 #772816
This meme I can relate to, havta share.

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believenothing February 12, 2023 at 04:29 #780238
Reply to punos Quoting punos
What exactly are you being distracted from that you don't want to be distracted from?


I really have no specific idea. Just contemplation or meditation or some kind of discovery process maybe.

believenothing February 12, 2023 at 04:36 #780242
What exactly are you being distracted from that you don't want to be distracted from?

I think I spend too much time on autopilot waiting for the next dream.
javi2541997 February 12, 2023 at 05:38 #780255
Reply to believenothing
What exactly are you being distracted from that you don't want to be distracted from?


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