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To answer your question, though: I found a friendly community of people that held a similar worldview to me.
In my very non-professional opinion, that sounds like depression. I'm pulling on personal experience here. I've felt very similarly. I take medication and see a therapist now. I also don't experience these feelings any more. I don't know if I solved a problem or grew out of a phase. To answer your question, though: I found a friendly community of people that held a similar worldview to me.
I don't think looking up to Feynman as a role model is a good idea. The stories Feynman told about himself and the way he portrayed himself were not necessarily true. I've read an account of someone who was his neighbor and knew him well (was a physicist, too), and it wasn't very flattering. It sounded like Feynman was pretty insecure and cared a great deal what people think about him and that they consider him a gen…
So, just like almost everybody else - but in his case he was indeed a genius and very interesting...
>Zorba the Greek is a fictional character. Not a great role model at all, since he's purely a made up construct.
Missing the point...
In my very non-professional opinion, that sounds like depression. I'm pulling on personal experience here. I've felt very similarly. I take medication and see a therapist now. I also don't experience these feelings any more. I don't know if I solved a problem or grew out of a phase. To answer your question, though: I found a friendly community of people that held a similar worldview to me.
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Just possibly, your low engagement and low interest are symptoms of depression or similar.
What cures are there for depression other than 1. anti-depressants 2. therapy / exercise / diet changes 3. a perspective change 4. ignoring it
In my very non-professional opinion, that sounds like depression. I'm pulling on personal experience here. I've felt very similarly. I take medication and see a therapist now. I also don't experience these feelings any more. I don't know if I solved a problem or grew out of a phase. To answer your question, though: I found a friendly community of people that held a similar worldview to me.
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There's certainly side effects, but most people find the side effects more tolerable than depression itself. And, many are able to use the SSRIs as an adjunct to more permanent therapy and do not need to take the pills long term.
Later, when I read Buddhism, it says similar things.
So, should we just prepare ourselves for death like the ancient Jains who starved themselves to death because nothing had any meaning?
That would be pretty worthless, innit?
I have discovered a simple, yet, profound truth: "Meaning is what you assign to stuff with stern agency. Nothing else."
You are the sole assigner of meaning, and you do the assigning, and it's your life's mission to stick to it.
I have found meaning in health, self-preservation through earning money, love- romantic and other kinds, parents, dog, learning new things, music, enjoying small things in life, helping others selflessly, and making it a mission to contribute to society as much as possible so maximum number of people can realize such intricacies of the nature of reality.
Yes, I was in your situation before. And I did bounce back. All it took me was being in ICU for 15 days when I was 21, fully conscious but fully paralized and ventilated. And meditations. A lot of it.
(I fully recovered within two months, and currently live a fully healthy life with no medications.)
Just possibly, your low engagement and low interest are symptoms of depression or similar.
What cures are there for depression other than 1. anti-depressants 2. therapy / exercise / diet changes 3. a perspective change 4. ignoring it
In any case, those 4 things you've mentioned are well enough already.