How do you keep on living while knowing that you will die? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by D-ISS-O-CIA-TED@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social

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I don't know how to do it. I am so terrified of dying that I haven't been able to sleep well for a very long time. Everything I do seems shallow and hollow - so how does everyone just keep on moving forward, keep setting goals, keep making progress?

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[-] hoodlem@hoodlem.me 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The inevitability of death for all life is a unifying factor that gives us an opportunity to empathize with each other. All arguments, etc are pointless when we’re all headed the same place in the end.

Because of this we have an opportunity to experience tremendous, overwhelming love with all other life that will die just as we will.

These are things I tell myself when I am in a bad mental place.

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