Depressing Realizations

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GameMaNiAC

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Rednog said:
That one day people will find a way to prolong life indefinitely and I will be long dead and buried.
Who knows, maybe they make a machine for restoring life to dead bodies and bring us back some day. Probably to torture and question us about our time and history, but still, we get to live.

OT: Yeah. Dying. I have to be cliche and predictable and go with that. I just hate things ending forever. I'll never see anything again. The people I love, video-games, music, all those simple things I enjoy and, of course, life itself... None of that. All gone. Nothingness.

Though it doesn't sound that bad, when you think about it... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssf7P-Sgcrk]
 

Shoggoth2588

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I'm going to die and leave a shallow legacy (if anything at all) which will last until everyone who ever knew me dies. Even if I were to become famous in some way, it wouldn't do much to make people remember me in the future. If I do end up having kids and that line goes on for a few generations, I won't be known in anyway to my surviving family members. This realization comes from the fact that my own family is either ignorant of where it came from or, apathetic. I want to know, I care but they didn't/don't. My hypothetical kids could end up feeling the same.

I've got another one: there's no way to quantum leap into the past or otherwise watch old memories/ experiences outside of the normal way. I have a crappy memory so it sucks that I can't remember everything I've ever experienced. The worst part though is how I can't see what could have been. I really wish the "What-If" machine was a real thing and I know I'm not the only person.
 

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Change is a part of life, and something you need to accept. Things change for better or worse and everyone is subject to it. You don't have to like it but adapting to it is paramount to leading a decent life and not living in the past.
 

White_Lama

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The fact that my dad has gotten diagnosed with about 2 years to live due to fucking cancer is quite depressing, especially since my mother had it when I was a kid and survived and the year before dad got diagnosed she had to do some risky heart surgery and managed to pull through that and now faith thought it would be fun to throw us yet another disease.

Oh, and the fact that I always get friendzoned no matter what.
 

LordFish

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That my mother and father are going to die sooner than I want them too :'(

That genuinely occurred to my today and gave me a momentary downer
 

A Satanic Panda

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LordFish said:
That my mother and father are going to die sooner than I want them too :'(

That genuinely occurred to my today and gave me a momentary downer
I think of it this way: It's a lot worse if the parent out lives the child.
 

theLadyBugg

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No matter how badly I want it, or how many hours I spend rehearsing and learning dance routines, I will never be a Korean pop star. I'm too old, too fat, and you know, not Korean.
 

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gNetkamiko said:
halfeclipse said:
All we've got waiting for us is the slow, but enetiveable heat death of the universe as it approaches maximum entropy, and the space of time life can reasonably exist in the universe is around 100 Trillion years.

100 billion years from now. the local group will destabilize, merging into one big galaxy, a trillion years after that galaxies will be red shifted far enough we wont be able to see them anymore (even the gamma rays they emit will have a wavelength longer then the observable universe.) 100 trillion years from now, the Stelliferous era will end, and no more stars will form. 10-20 trillion years after that the last stars (low mass red dwarfs.) will exaust the last of their fuel, cooling to white dwarfs, leaving the universe populated black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. In the absence of an energy source, these remnants will cool further, grow faint and except for rare events the last light in the universe will go out.

Over the next quadrillion years, the remaining orbits of the planets will decay, or be flung from the system, and over the next 100 Quintillion years the same will happen to the stellar remnants within the galaxies.

10 Decillion years later baryonic matter (Which includes protons and neutrons.) will begin to decay into photons and leptons, and by 10 Duodecillion years (10^40) this will have finished, leaving the universe to the black holes for the next 10^100 years as they slowly evaporate to nothing, leaving the universe effectively empty as it reaches true heat death.
Fuck me. Way to cause a huge downer. O.O

You certainly did your homework.
There is no evidence of proton decay and life still has a unbelievable amount of time left.

Be happy; that's an order.
 

mik1

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even if I accomplish every goal I have for my life, it will all eventually amount to nothing.
 

Ghonzor

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I will very likely have no say in my own death. The lack of control is what saddens me. Death seems alright in my book.
 

Patrick Buck

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I will never be rememebered. Nothing we do matters. We are all pointless sacks of meat walking around a dying ball of dirt falling though a cold and emotionless galaxy, extending our meaningless existence for no reason.

Good enough for you Escapist?
 

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Esotera said:
I have a 20% chance of being sectioned and an 80% chance of going crazy again.

Also, in 20 years kids will look back on the things we think are amazing now, and laugh like we do at ancient stuff like floppies.
Dude, there was this kid ( 9-10) that came into work a few months back and pointed at a flash drive and asked me "what is that?" I said "It is portable computer memory, you know kind of like a flop... nevermind"

I'm 23 and I am starting to feel old..... What am I gonna do when I hit 50?
 

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Kermi said:
It bothers me that we have the technology and resources for everyone on this planet to be healthy, fed and sheltered, while creating a sustainable world for future generations but by and large our species is too self centred to do the things they need to do to make that happen, instead seeking personal gain alone, often to the detriment of others.

I'm not a nihilist by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm kind of glad I'll be dead long before the real problems our planets is going to have take effect.
Do you know of a different species who is less self-centred? Because we do come across as one of the nicest species on our planet, if not the nicest. It's unnatural to be completely selfless anyway.

Nothing massively depressing comes to mind. Death is always going to be one of them, but I've probably got until I'm 100 before I kick it with the way science is advancing. I've never been in a relationship, but that's not really a realization, more so just a fact.

My parents splitting up came across as a massive surprise at first, but after giving it some thought once I reached a mature age, it was pretty damn clear they were having problems. I guess that realization is probably the most... realizationy?
 

ChildishLegacy

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That Riot are never going to nerf Irelia enough, because it's just downright impossible. It's just not fair that we have to live in a world where you don't feel safe going solo top anymore.
(What's also depressing is that only about 1.5 people will understand that "joke")

In all seriousness I can only say to this thread:
 

Jolly Co-operator

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Whenever I think about the fact that some day, I will die. (Weird thought to be having at 16 years of age, but it'll pass)

I've been dealing with some depression and self esteem issues, and because of this, I've grown distant from my friends. I didn't do anything to piss them off, it's just that I'd have days that were so bad that I either couldn't bring myself to go anywhere, or I didn't want to make them put up with me. Either way, I ended up canceling or backing out of a lot of plans. It eventually got to the point where we hung out less and less, until I rarely see them anymore (Aside from classes, but we won't be going back to school for a little while). Even though my situation has drastically improved, I'm very worried that I won't be able to go back to the way things were with my friends, or that things would just be too awkward after all this time.

(Sorry for the length of that last one, it's just been bugging me for a while, and I had to get it off my chest)