Don't do that. Everyone has a reason to be alive. Maybe someday you'll be famous, or maybe someday something exciting will happen and you just don't know it. There's a reason we're all here.

Have you even watched the video? If not, I don't know why you're responding.

I just hate seeing you down.

If you still feel a purpose, life it worth living.

If you have goals you have purpose.

Life may get bad, but at least you know what will happen. If you die everything you've ever worked for will be lost.

If you are considering suicide, I implore you to think again. This feeling should pass after you think everything over.

I've forgotten the last time I felt I had a purpose.
My goals don't matter, as I am no closer to achieving them now than I ever have been.
What exactly have I worked for, or accomplished? Nothing worthwhile, from what I can tell.
I've reached that point in my life where the more others try to dissuade me from ending it all, the less reason I see fit to keep on struggling and suffering in vain. Especially after having lost my aunt earlier this month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_qvy82U4RE

The meaning of life, the true meaning, is the pursuit of happiness. Find what makes you happy, and enjoy your life on this earth. Remember, everyone is trying to do the same, and we are all there for each other. Surround yourself with people of good cheer, and find pleasure in enjoying acts that you like. There is nothing wrong with enjoyment, and living life for the sake of living. Hardships come and go, but we will make it through them all. Please, don't end your life Joe.

After watching the video I realize how bleak things can be when you detach yourself from religion and faith. I have a checkered past with faith, ultimately resting on agnosticism where I kind of go, "well, I keep the lessons that I learned in my actions and I hope that's enough" even though I don't participate much in the trappings of the religion that I was raised in. I'm probably going to have a traditional Christian marriage if I find a significant other down the line, and if I have a child, that child will probably be be baptized.

I feel like that's important info to share given the context of the video and the subsequent conversation that it might spark.

I think there's nothing wrong with doing something that ultimately doesn't matter if it makes you feel happy. Some things make people feel better if if they just do it for its own sake. Sometimes things are very surface-level... but I have to ask, so what? You can always make a difference to the entire world by doing things like installing solar panels, or sending food to starving children. It doesn't mean that everything you do has to have some profound meaning or impact.

If you do art to get better, this doesn't have to really mean anything. Sometimes people just find comfort in improving at something, even if they'll never be the next Michelangelo. And if human life is suffering, than who's to say that, in and of itself, finding something that eases your suffering for a while isn't worth doing? I'd say that finding that one thing that makes you happy for a little while would be profoundly important.

I know you've had struggles in the past. I've read some of your journals. Believe me when I say that becoming "good at art" isn't everything, and even then I'd say you're doing pretty well. Better than some people will ever get in their entire lives. When you're bombarded with talented or seasoned artists who have been drawing for years on a daily basis, it's hard to fathom that some people will never be able to draw anything more advanced than stick figures, nor will they ever try to for their entire life.

And drawing well or even evolving as an artist isn't necessarily what makes one popular. I don't want to speak ill of any artist - but I do want to point out that one of the most popular diaperfur artists I know of hasn't exactly evolved their art style much at all in years. was one of the first artists I found on this site and he has to make a killing off commissions, and has more watchers than I thought possible for someone in this niche. I guess it could be due to the fact that he has a lot of art of varied themes, and he's not technically a pure diaper-related artist, but the point remains that his art style has been more or less consistent for years now. And it depends on what you think of the style, but over the years I've become less and less interested in his art because I just find that I prefer a different style.

In the end, if you're looking for something in your life to make you feel fulfilled, you have to ask yourself what makes you happy and why you do some of the things you do. I could talk all day about theories of why religion exists, why we have them and why people still worship, because it does feed back to this feeling of a "good life" that people look for.

I've been struggling a bit with these questions too. Mostly because I've recently gotten a little bit close for comfort with the notion of my own mortality. Something that's helped me is having goals and keeping in touch with a family. And it doesn't have to be your biological family because I know that not everyone is on the best of terms with their biological family for varying reasons. Human connections we make are important because it doesn't just help you relieve your suffering, but helps your friends relieve theirs. Not everyone can do profound things to ease suffering or become someone who will be mentioned in history books. Not everyone has the kind of resources to help a starving child halfway across the world, or the capital to help a family pay for expensive cancer treatments. But what I don't think the author of that video realizes is that when people work together and lean on each other, you'd be surprised on how much suffering you can alleviate.

I stopped enjoying art a long time ago; in fact, I can no longer think of anything that I enjoy doing. And any joy I do find on whatever activity is meaningless in the context of the suffering of so many others in the world, most of whom I will never be able to help. Hopefully cancer, diabetes, ALS, Alzheimer's or some genetic disease will end my life and I won't have to do anything, but who knows? My own life has no meaning anyway.

Well, you know what they say, variety is the spice of life. You could always try something new that people seem to enjoy. If you don't enjoy the things you used to and feel like your time is meaningless, then there's nothing to lose in spending that time trying something new. Who knows? Maybe something you do could spark your passion for art again.

You got people here who care about you. That's got to count for something.

I find it rather selfish and arrogant to think it more important to enjoy my life than to think of those less fortunate than myself, such as those starving or dying of terrible diseases, those who can't afford to pay bills, or those in this country who are being killed under orders from the state because of their ethnicity/creed, etc. My having no control over these situations is supremely irrelevant.

You have to make meaning for yourself. If most of your life is suffering, then you have to do something to change it. Hopefully that's feasible as I'm well aware that sometimes people can't help existing in the situations they're in.

That video is only for those who are completely nihilistic and pesimistic on everything. Yes there is pain... there is misery, that is nature. I am currently in a struggle myself... I've lost jobs, and it's been difficult for me to obtain a new one. You want to know what's kept me going? Friends, family, hobbies. That gives me reason to perservere.

I've basically been a nihilist myself since my early 20s, so I don't know how else to view things. At least you have a chance to make things better for you, but what does it even mean?

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Okay, jokes aside. Life, is pretty meaningless. It's just a big game of survival, to live and spread your genes to the next generation. Of course there are other pieces on the board that will compete. At least that's the non-complex way of thinking...

I've dealt with that kind of thinking but with help and counseling and people who care about me I've had second thoughts about ending my life.

Tbh, without watching that video I have questioned why we exist, and yes folks I have had multiple existential crisises which I have pulled through and yet still when I feel down or sometimes at night when im in bed I question why life and what I am gonna do in the future, and tbh I dont like looking forward into the future too much cause I feel like its gonna stress and worry me out too much, but think part of existing is to live in the moment and enjoy yourself whilst you still can and enjoy it with others though being pessimistic here we will fade away eventually like the millions and billions of others who like an average life and only a few are remembered by the mass populous and the history books but I think its important to enjoy yourself nown and then and dont think about the future too hard for the sake of sanity, but even though I have complated self harm and suicide I resisted cause people would miss me and I cant bring myself to do it although I know that one hundred years on nobody is gonna remember my name or how I lived. It may help to get counselling or seeing a therapist to help you plus anti-depressants which I am on since my last breakdown from 2013 though I do get minor to major relapses from time to time I am doing ok, and I hope you can pull through, Joe, remember no matter what happens me, KHFM, Vector, Leon, Scott, Rogey, Ryan, Bill and all the others are still your friends and we still care about you, man, I would be gutted if you did anything drastic as would the others.

That poor, nihilistic thing. The video maker complains about suffering and pain existing. If life is as bad as he thinks it is, why doesn’t he go on a killing spree, capped off with turning the gun on himself?

There’s a reason God allows suffering to exist: so humans can have an opportunity to act. To show others they care. You aren’t a robot or an inanimate stone. You have a brain, you have resources, you can make a difference. Maybe you can’t do it all, but you can help.

“Faith without works is dead.”

The maker of the video is a pig, by his own admission in the video itself.