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Re: Complaint of the day - January 22nd 2015, 05:14 AM

Take deep breaths, Anna.

You might not be conscious later, but you're conscious now. Relax. Relax. Breathe. Deep breaths. There's no reason to run off killing yourself just to put an end to a perceived non-existence that might actually exist. Your family may be temporary, and you may not be able to feel the pain if you leave them behind because of your despair, but they will be left behind. They will feel it, even if nothing exists beyond, even if you'd never know their pain, they'd feel it. And don't you love them?

Don't hurt yourself. Don't go searching for answers against an illusory reality, not until you've proven that that reality is in fact illusory. Life isn't pointless. It can't be. There must be a point. Without a point, there'd be no need for consciousness. Without consciousness, you couldn't experience life. You experience life every day, so consciousness exists. If a consciousness exists, there must be a point, and if there's a point, there must be a before and there must be an after. You can't make a life sandwich without two slices of bread on each side.

You are conscious, therefore you are. You are conscious, therefore there is a point. There is a point, therefore there is a before, and if there is a before and a now, there must be an after.

You are alive.

You need to calm down. Calm down.


ANNA
ENTJ, HERMIT, AUTHOR.
"The most notorious ill-fortune must, in the end, yield to the untiring courage of philosophy - as the most stubborn city to the ceaseless vigilance of the enemy." - Edgar Allan Poe

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