Ashu
novelist, sanskritist, Canadian living in India
- Nov 13, 2021
- 792
starboy2k
the only thing I can do right….is be a burden
- May 21, 2025
- 158
i would feel indifferent. the less people know about you, the less bullshit opinions they will have of you
SVEN
I Wish I'd Been a Jester Too.
- Apr 3, 2023
- 2,813
cemeteryismyhome
Warlock
- Mar 15, 2025
- 738
It's true.
It's a relief.
I want to be invisible and someday inevitably I will be. Hooray.
It's a relief.
I want to be invisible and someday inevitably I will be. Hooray.
ginko0
To be or not to be
- May 8, 2025
- 86
Extremely liberating. Imma be dead, what difference would it make? It reminds me of Ikiru, a movie where an old man, after being diagnosed with cancer and confronting his mortality, builds a park for the children in his last days. After his death, men debate over his intentions, state of mind and all. The message is: even if your name and deeds were to be remembered throughout the centuries, would people really remember YOU, or just the image they'd make of you?
Hours will pass, days will pass, months will pass, years will pass.
In the end, everything will pass.
Nothing will remain.
Not just of us, but of anything, of anyone, of any thing.
So what's the point?
What's the point in holding on, in worrying, in hoping?
I don't care about anything — but in truth, I never have.
I don't care about existing, about experiences, about the gestures of daily life.
There is nothing in life that makes it feel appealing to me.
It was just a brief, forced parenthesis,
in which I had to endure a constant suffering
because someone decided I had to be born.
And so, without asking me, they imprisoned me here.
In the end, everything will pass.
Nothing will remain.
Not just of us, but of anything, of anyone, of any thing.
So what's the point?
What's the point in holding on, in worrying, in hoping?
I don't care about anything — but in truth, I never have.
I don't care about existing, about experiences, about the gestures of daily life.
There is nothing in life that makes it feel appealing to me.
It was just a brief, forced parenthesis,
in which I had to endure a constant suffering
because someone decided I had to be born.
And so, without asking me, they imprisoned me here.
It doesn't really bother me. It's just the natural way of things. It bothers me more that people who I've known and loved will all be forgotten soon. They were worth remembering but ultimately, it's not really like it brings anyone back.
I'm more pleased that I didn't leave offspring to mourn me though. I've spent most of my life mourning my Mum- she died when I was 3. I'm glad I'm not burdening my would-be child with that pain. It seems better that the fewer people I am close to, the better now. It's surely better for them if they can forget me quickly.
I'm more pleased that I didn't leave offspring to mourn me though. I've spent most of my life mourning my Mum- she died when I was 3. I'm glad I'm not burdening my would-be child with that pain. It seems better that the fewer people I am close to, the better now. It's surely better for them if they can forget me quickly.
usernamesarehard
Life sucks and then you die
- Dec 22, 2021
- 236
I don't really care. I mean if you think about what'll happen thousands/ millions of years in the future, unless we manage to master space travel and can get out of this solar system eventually we'll all be forgotten once the sun swallows up the earth and all the planets close to us. Then everyone will be forgotten.
Even not thinking that far ahead, in a few generations everyone will forget people who are famous now, so we're all forgotten eventually. I mean really think about it, how many actors from the 70s, 50s, 20s do you remember? Assuming you didn't grow up around that time. The first movie was made in 1878 according to google. Do you think anyone remembers actors from the 1800s?
Eventually culture changes and all the people who cared about you will die and their kids or grandkids will stop caring too. Even history books aren't safe. I can guarantee you there are people in history books or really old scrolls that next to no one knows because only history nerds read the books they're mentioned in. We're all forgotten eventually, some sooner than others.
Even not thinking that far ahead, in a few generations everyone will forget people who are famous now, so we're all forgotten eventually. I mean really think about it, how many actors from the 70s, 50s, 20s do you remember? Assuming you didn't grow up around that time. The first movie was made in 1878 according to google. Do you think anyone remembers actors from the 1800s?
Eventually culture changes and all the people who cared about you will die and their kids or grandkids will stop caring too. Even history books aren't safe. I can guarantee you there are people in history books or really old scrolls that next to no one knows because only history nerds read the books they're mentioned in. We're all forgotten eventually, some sooner than others.
onmywaytothebusstop
~ Transgirl looking for eternal tranquility ~
- Feb 9, 2025
- 230
i'm not sure why anyone should care what people think of them when their dead let alone in 100 years.
pthnrdnojvsc
Extreme Pain is much worse than people know
- Aug 12, 2019
- 3,563
every human alive now all 8 billion will be dead and forgotten in 130 years.
nothing matters
what will matter in 500 years? a 1000 years? a million years? a trillion years? nothing.
nothing could ever matter to me 1 micro-second after my brain / me dies because i won't exist ever again.
only my brain that's "me" creates any thinking desires worry needs FOM suffering pain, and that's the problem that the brain can create unending constant unbearable pain.
the only things that matter to me are me avoiding unbearable pain and suffering and my suicide asap.
plus a human is just cells, chemical reactions , an animal, a machine, making the statement "nothing matters" even more true.
a human can think of only one thing at a time.
The cells in a mouse monkey fly cricket and me are basically identical, even a brain cell In a fly is the same as in my brain. So I'm just a bug . It's a fiction perpetrated into us that we should gave a legacy. What kind of legacy does that fly that just died in the sidewalk have am I different? No.
To that fly or a mouse it ses the universe in its brain from it's perspective just like I do there is no difference. If that mouse or I get a painful parasite in our intestines that pain will be in our attention but no one else will care
no one remembers anything or knows the true nature of anything just a low resolution model. For example if I mention Charles Darwin . Who knows who he really was? Just some blurb the guy who wrote theory of evolution
nothing matters
what will matter in 500 years? a 1000 years? a million years? a trillion years? nothing.
nothing could ever matter to me 1 micro-second after my brain / me dies because i won't exist ever again.
only my brain that's "me" creates any thinking desires worry needs FOM suffering pain, and that's the problem that the brain can create unending constant unbearable pain.
the only things that matter to me are me avoiding unbearable pain and suffering and my suicide asap.
plus a human is just cells, chemical reactions , an animal, a machine, making the statement "nothing matters" even more true.
a human can think of only one thing at a time.
The cells in a mouse monkey fly cricket and me are basically identical, even a brain cell In a fly is the same as in my brain. So I'm just a bug . It's a fiction perpetrated into us that we should gave a legacy. What kind of legacy does that fly that just died in the sidewalk have am I different? No.
To that fly or a mouse it ses the universe in its brain from it's perspective just like I do there is no difference. If that mouse or I get a painful parasite in our intestines that pain will be in our attention but no one else will care
no one remembers anything or knows the true nature of anything just a low resolution model. For example if I mention Charles Darwin . Who knows who he really was? Just some blurb the guy who wrote theory of evolution
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SmilingNoMore
Paragon
- Nov 25, 2024
- 987
Pretty normal not to be remembered after death by later generations. A reminder that nobody is special really.. Just another random person.
Alexandra0
Don't Fear the Reaper
- Sep 30, 2023
- 524
NonEssential
Hanging in there
- Jan 15, 2025
- 476
Not a lot of people care for my existence in the present so idk why I should care if people know about me in the future.
bananaolympus
Specialist
- Dec 12, 2024
- 344
The vast majority of people who had lived has been long time forgotten, for example i don't know who my great great great grandfather is, you could still be remembered in 100 years if you had a family of your own and lived enough to have your grandchildren to know you but 200 only if you leaved a legacy, so no i don't care if im forgotten
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Linda
Member
- Jul 30, 2020
- 2,166
It doesn't concern me at all. I have never sought fame while alive, so why should I care if I'm forgotten 100 years after I have gone?
In fact, there will be a lasting reminder of me. Some years ago I published a book on the scientific work I have been doing, and a second book will be published soon. If we still have a functioning civilisationn 100 years from now, a few people will refer to those books occasioally.
tpboy
No Karma Cafe
- Aug 4, 2023
- 485
I'm afraid pondering this point is one thing that causes mass shootings.
Namelesa
Global Mod · Trapped in this Suffering
- Sep 21, 2024
- 2,044
I don't really care at all. To me the effect I have on people in this present moment is enough for me than anything in the future. Just cus I am forgotten doesn't mean my actions now don't have any meaning to the people in this moment right now. Anyways I am not going to feel lesser from being forgotten about after my death as I no longer be able to care about it at all as I can't feel anything in non-existence.
Just the way I want it. My ashes will be "dispersed" and I don't want a plaque of any sort marking my existence and death.
All I want is to cease to exist.
All I want is to cease to exist.
