Kathaarian wrote:
My signature is a saying of Epicurus, the famous Greek philosopher. I found him through Nietzsche, which is another one of my favorite philsosophers who was a fan of Epicurus too.
Usually I wonder about what my purpose in life is and how I should live my life. And your question "what is good?". I don't know but I'm hoping to find out and philosophy has actually for the first time helped me about this, mainly my anxiety attacks, when I saw this old paragraph. Fear of an early death without achieving my goals and not having a direction in life are the 2 main reasons of my severe depression. This is how this line helped me, we have to cherish the moment and live it to the fullest, we should do our best in every way possible, share our happiness with friends and family and knowing that we've had a good life we can go peacefully when our time comes. This is my motto now and I'll try living by this code, hoping to enjoy life better.
I know I'm sounding like a hippy but I've had it with this fucking depression and its killing me. I just want to live a good full life. Epicurus himself died a very slow and painful death but he was cheerful even in his last moments, knowing that he did his deeds. That's just all I want, nothing more, I want to be able to go smiling.
Your depression is so different to mine. Yours actually has a decent reason, i just got it because i think no one could ever like me, and chicks DEFINITELY could never ever like me. what a stupid reason to be so sick. I actually considered drowning myself in my pool today.
Im gonna remember that sentence though, thats really quite fucking brilliant.