I always hated Philosophy

[Heyyouthere33]

I remember when I 1st started college, I took a philosophy class cause it looked interesting and I remember I hated it. It had you thinking about purposes of life, matters that make life important and whether this was real or this was not real. It always made me uncomfortable because in my life I knew this life that I was living was real, And I don't want to think about what others feelings were about life because my life was real in my life mattered. I remember thinking it kind of sucked the joy out of living reading about these guys, So I dropped the class ,never took it again and I moved on.

But now, this year, I feel like I've had the most philosophical thoughts I've ever had in my life. About what makes life worth living, what is real ,what isnt real and I hate it. I didn't like thinking about it then I don't like thinking about it now mostly because it makes my depression, anxiety worse(de realization). To me it's just really scary thinking about these kind of things, And I don't know why. Well I think I kind of know why, I think it's just because I've always been very gullible so it's hard for me to think of something as an abstract thought and not believe it. I need to not do that.

On the upside I think I'm starting to understand poetry, about life.

[Hidden]

We all go through the early stages of life asking questions of what life means etc that is standard procedure and yes it may make you think for a time.What if comes to mind a great deal or why, why am I here, what is the point etc.

To be honest at seventy I am more interested in my Hobbies and Diversion. I keep my self busy at things I enjoy and to be honest I would not bother thinking about the meaning of life it just does My Head In. I will most probably find out the meaning of life when I turn up my toes and fly upwards and on wards to the Pearly Gates, whatever

BOB

[Heyyouthere33 in reply to Hidden]

Thanks Bob. At some point I realize the more I keep still and not engage in activities and people, the more these questions bother me. So I just picked up my guitar and start playing. I feel so much better now

[Hidden in reply to Heyyouthere33]

If you have a musical talent fantastic. We have interests that have been taken from us by this Virus, we like everyone else have lost a year of our lives. However we have a garden and a library of books containing photographs of where we have traveled to and that is a big comfort. Like your Music

We have an Orchard and we cannot get out side to clean the trees and prune them for next year.

BOB

[fauxartist]

Thoughts are just that....thoughts....and they can change just like the weather does. One day your favorite color can be turquoise...tomorrow fuchia...it doesn't matter. As they say, not much in our lives is written in stone, and now even our genetic code is up for alteration soon. So we make choices with what we have and value at the time, and kind of just go through the flow....one thing in life that is for sure is 'change'....

I took Greek and Eastern philosophy back in the day….and the meaning of life, is there a God, where do we go when we die, what is real and what is just imagined don’t matter really to me….just living everyday is enough to think about. Although…imagination on the other hand is what can help us get out of thinking about our problems….if we use it to write, or paint, or bake, or invent…all of that is self productive and makes us feel good

[VDC1]

“An emotion as such tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something. Without a ruthlessly honest commitment to introspection—to the conceptual identification of your inner states—you will not discover what you feel, what arouses the feeling, and whether your feeling is an appropriate response to the facts of reality, or a mistaken response, or a vicious illusion produced by years of self-deception. The men who scorn or dread introspection take their inner states for granted, as an irreducible and irresistible primary, and let their emotions determine their actions. This means that they choose to act without knowing the context (reality), the causes (motives), and the consequences (goals) of their actions. “

Philosophy who needs it? - Ayn Rand