Discussion Just to stay..

[SolomonKado]

You ever thought about how the things we like in our lives are just tools to keep us interested and want to be here?

Video Games, Movies, TV shows, Music, etc. Its all just tools used to keep us where we are. Once you don't have those then what do you have? What kind of life is just filled with stuff?… Are the people that are friends or family going to be the ones who "fix" what we can't fix ourselves?

I have been emotionally struggling for awhile now. When I wasn't I used to get real excited for video games that were the next level for gamers. Within the last year I stopped enjoying them so I stopped playing.

Recently I decided to get this new game that came out. I turned it on and then spent almost all night building a character that would have taken me a-lot less time in the past. I was so indecisive that I shut it off.

I can't focus or even enjoy any of it. Everything is just noise to me. This life is so full of stuff and things to keep us interested so we don't want to leave. Even if it's trying to make more money or succeed at the next big thing. It's not like we can take any of it with us.

 

[Starry✧･ﾟDaze]

I have the same problem with concentration and video games being too much for my brain lately. I'll link you the thread, if you want to give it another try. Maybe there is something there for you:

Cozy/Comfort Games Recommendations

Could someone please recommend me quiet, comforting video games that aren't too fast or complicated? Some games that I usually love are just too much for me rn. My mind is just overwhelmed pretty easily and I want to pass some time until I find a way to buy RC for my ctb method. Scrolled...

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Your last phrase is especially true.
I love video games and enjoy deep/entertaining stories and fantastic worlds. But honestly, I've had similiar thoughts about them being only some artificial dopamine source in life, like all modern media. They are not enough for a heart or soul to feel fulfilled.

Sometimes I imagine what it would feel like to live in another world, where I am strong, weild a sword or something and explore untouched nature and places that have never been discovered before. A world where I have purpose one way or another.
Usually those worlds offer freedom and less complex challenges and aren't so insanely stuffed with other humans.

But that's what it looks like nowadays.
People are literally everywhere. Everything has already been discovered or marked on a map.
I love seeing new things, but traveling is insanely expensive.

Video games are the only alternative for this. But I agree with you, they aren't nearly enough to feel fulfilled. After shutting them down I often feel empty inside.

 

[SolomonKado]

that's what was awesome when I was on submarines. On the way underwater to Australia from California, in the US, we rose out of the water at the equator in the middle of the ocean! No fucking bottom! We jumped off the top of the submarine into the water like it was a fun park for a couple hours! No land for hundreds or even thousands of miles!

Got to travel the world on a submarine underwater! It was awesome because underwater you don't feel a sea storm on the water! Smooth all the way there lol!

I use to love watching adventure Anime because I could lose myself in the story and characters for the same reason you said! Nowadays it's all noise to keep my ptsd and anxiety at bay….

I have no more substance to life anymore. My friend says he refuses to work at a 9-5 job and I agree. Working for company like that has managers that usually work off favoritism and shady deals for advancement or promotion. It killed me. Military changed at around 2008 and got worse also.

This world is turning into shit and it keeps getting worse. More for other people. I'm not built for this. I wasn't prepared or trained for this and help isn't working.

I hear a lot that if you have mental issues then you need to ask for help. They make everything as available as possible. GOOD JOB FOR THAT! Problem is all that help is made like a cookie cutter like everyone is the same. It doesn't fucking work!

 

[HAL 9000]

Life has no value outside of connecting to others. The compulsion to experience anything that isn't rooted in our survival can be attributed to us being slaves to the Pleasure Principle.

"It's all a series of distractions before you die" - Tony Soprano