Ever feel like you're just...done? Not in a morbid, "I want to die" kind of way. More like feeling really tired of existing, like it's just too hard to keep going. A desire not to be, period - to simply blink out of existence without the drama of death. It's a heavy concept, but one that resonates with more people than you might expect. An urge to permanently unplug from this whole struggle we call life.
The desire not to exist isn't just an extreme reaction to mental illness or crisis - philosophers and thinkers have spent centuries trying to make sense of this profound yearning. From Kierkegaard's "The Sickness Unto Death" to Sartre's sense of "nausea" over the absurdity of existence, it speaks to our very human struggle to find meaning and purpose in a world that often feels cold and indifferent to our existence.
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19 мар 2024
