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Existential Nihilism

October 23, 2019
By lexy779 PLATINUM, Souderton, Pennsylvania
lexy779 PLATINUM, Souderton, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more."
-Lord Byron


My grade can be great

or terrible.

I could get into college

and be a lawyer or a teacher or whatever.

Or I couldn't get in

and work at a fast-food restaurant. 

I could marry and have kids

or never marry and adopt or foster kids

or forever live alone.

I could die in three years.

It doesn't matter.

None of it matters.

The goddamn world is f***ing falling apart

and humanity isn't doing enough to stop it

and is instead

Actively making it worse

to the point

where we're probably going to be wiped out

in ten to twenty years anyway.

So nothing matters

except for me

for me right now.

And right now

I want to be happy.



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