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Originally Posted by yellow_fleurs
Maybe in an existential crisis, maybe just my depression. Who knows? Do I go in deeper to get out and find peace and resolve it, or do I just engage in activities until I am more present in the world, even though it feels counterintuitive and therefore stop the feeling? Anyone else been here? Hope I am not in to far to get out of it.
Quote I found that helps explain how I feel on this existential journey. Seems a bit dramatic, but felt it was a good description overall
"He enters into a labyrinth, he multiplies a thousandfold the dangers which life brings with it; not the least of which is that no one can see how and where he loses his way, becomes lonely, and is torn piecemeal by some Minotaur of conscience. Assuming such a person perishes, this happens so far from the comprehension of men that they neither feel it nor sympathize:—and he cannot go back any longer! nor can he go back to the pity of men! " Nietzsche
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I'm reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" in Continental Philosophy right now. What a neat little bit of synchronicity I've found on the forums today. And I'm no doctor, so please take my word with a grain of salt, but I would lean towards introspection--or going deeper within oneself--without assuming it as a position (I know Nietzsche advises against this and lumps it in with slave morality, but I believe we need a mix of going deeper within ourselves and engaging in the world, and never one or the other to an extreme). For example, if I engage in worldly activities too much, I have become a person who takes all pleasure from worldly things (i.e drugs and alcohol, sex, media, etc.)--but, likewise, if I search only within myself, I've become withdrawn from the world and I've missed the insight of others or the use of worldly things that may be necessary for maintaining peace within myself. I have been here a few times myself, and it very well could be depression--but it might also be that you're just a budding philosopher (as those with philosophical minds tend to spend more time pondering over the world's idiosyncrasies).