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by vorhuts 2990 days ago
@sdrothrock

I am not in Japan, but the East Coast of USA. I am 22, have no debts, own my car, make 65k and have close to 50k invested in the stock market. I save close to 60% of my income and actively invest it.

On paper, I should be great but I am struggling with this nihilistic attitude to life. I am in good shape, sleep well, drink only water, work on programming projects or other side businesses, play video games, read non-fiction and hang out with friends.

How do I snap out of it and find more meaning in life? I've felt this "content" depressed limbo state for the past 3 years.

My go to quote for how I feel in general is from Fight Club.

“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club