What do we live for? What does life mean? I am working now, then maybe later if I get married, if I'm lucky I will have children, after that I retire, after that I die, then all that for what?
Why do you work now? It is not clear, why do I have to worship? The problem is heaven and hell are also not clear there will be or not later. Until now there is no empirical evidence that states that heaven and hell exist. The culture of worship and all the things we do in this world are unclear. I am confused as to what we are in this world.
if you have time to think about the thing that I just mentioned. Means you are in the flow of nihilism. What is nihilism? Nihilism is a view that believes that everything that exists today has no purpose, has no meaning, it is not clear to the point, he already feels nothing but living in the world. Nothing because there is no moral or religious view that is true in this world. So, you don't have to believe in anything and you don't have to follow anything.
Nihilism is if in my opinion, the thing that has ever been, if not ever, it should be me, you and he experienced or felt in our lives each, at least once.
If we assume that we will die later and yes, so in this world nothing is important anymore and I actually agree with this, life is sometimes confusing, life is indeed traced, sometimes life is inexplicable and maybe we are lucky fortunately, because of the trillions of stars in our universe and we happen to have a cool brain and can think further than other species.
But is there anything that makes us no different from other species? yes it must be. There is the same thing that we all will eventually die and when we die all things become insignificant, problems that occur in the office, scolded by the boss or lectured by lecturers, problems with your friends, decided by a boyfriend, all your achievements whether you win the competition get money and so on. All does not mean anymore in the eyes of death. Well, later it will also die.
But there is something actually positive about this Nihilism, so if that's the case then all the problems that are experienced become insignificant, all the things that might make us Shy, angry, sad, happy, all those feelings become insignificant, and when all problems it's not important, we can do whatever we want, and it's supposed to, and we can choose to have whatever goals we want, we can choose to live whatever we want, so that's it.
Albert comus a philosopher stated this in the writing he wrote, the myth of sisyphus. There he told of the life of a king who was punished for pushing stones all his life, forever. So this King, he will push the stone to the top, then after he pushes the rock to the top then the stone will roll down again and when he gets to the bottom this king will go down and push the stone again to the top and this incident will be repeated- birthday all his life.
So from the story above said Albert Comus, our reality is like a king and the stone. like on Monday, maybe we are sad because of being scolded by our parents because we behave badly, for example, but on Tuesday the next day he might be happy again because he was given money for snacks from parents and because of that we could eat with friends friends, on Wednesday maybe still happy because there is still money left for snacks, but Thursday we might be sad again.
So maybe the story will be the same as us in various versions, we will feel that life is full of pressure while pushing the stone, when it has been peaked we feel happy and satisfied, but eventually his life is full of pressure again when the stone goes down again but later there is happy again again like that, the cycle is spinning and this is the Nihilism described by albert camus.
if in my opinion the thing we should do, is not to give up and not push the stone anymore but instead we have to accept the fact that life is meaningless indeed the cycle is like that and move on Continue to push the stone if we don't push the stone, then we will not live our lives well, we will not be able to be happy, we will not be able to feel happy under pressure again for the rest of our lives and only by accepting can we have color in life.
So there is no longer any reason to be depressed about the meaning of life, if our life has meaning then that is good but if it has no meaning then yes, everyone will also die, we can enjoy our lives as long as we still have the ability to live, live only once .
And I would like to paraphrase the words of Albert Camus who in my opinion are good like this if we don't believe in anything and if all things are meaningless and if we are not bound by any dogma, religion, values and norms, everything should be very possible to do and there is no reason for us not to do the real thing that means for us personally, we can find and make meaning in our lives, because everything in life has no meaning and only ourselves can find out what it means, what the word means life. that is a little of my view of nihilism.