To be honest, I’d just be happy I could smoke cigarettes again.
Fear? I would be happy it’s going to be all over!
I think I would be happy. And just relax.
OP, you sound like you need to talk to someone. Not on the internet. In real life.
Did I miss something OP said that made you think that? I’d indeed be happy I could smoke again, too. There’d be existential crisis and all, too, but cigarette would 100% be back. Man, and it’s been like 10 years, imagine someone who just quit lol
I don’t think someone who’s not having a crisis would think about the world ending and decide that the thrill of skipping work is about even with the knowledge of impending death in terms of emotional impact.
I’m what you could describe as an optimistic nihilist. I understand it might now satisfy everyone, but for me, the certitude that we’ll ultimately all be forgotten and erased from existence, as time passes and the universe slowly drifts into heat death, is an extremely liberating idea. The lack of an objective overarching meaning to life means that I can choose one for myself, and I genuinely think the best way to do it is to try to make everyone’s time on this drifting ball of rock and magma suck as little as possible.
All this to say, I don’t really fear my own death, but the impacts it’s going to have on the people I love.
We all live with the knowledge of impending death every day, it’s something we all have in common that will come for all of us at some point.
For a lot of us, the hard thing to deal with is the uncertainty about when. We might keel over tomorrow, or even later today, but if we live our lives like that’s the case, we might screw ourselves over if we manage to live for another 70 years. We might fuck up our health, leave ourselves poor, homeless, ruin our reputations, etc.
It’s a balancing act to squeeze in as many good times while we can, while setting ourselves up to have many more good times in the future and for others to continue having good times after we’re gone. Plan too conservatively and you miss out on a lot of stuff now, but if you go completely balls to the wall now you leave yourself nothing to work with later.
Put a hard limit on things with the world ending though, and you remove a whole lot of uncertainty from the equation. You don’t have to worry about making things last, or the long-term consequences, you get to live entirely in the now, because there is no (or very little) later.
I’d rather have another 50+ years of normal good times, even if it means going to work, than a scant few days or hours (or whatever scenario we’re imagining in this case) of raucous debauchery, but if that’s the cards I get dealt and theres no way of changing that outcome, I can either mope about it and waste the little time I have left, or I can lean into it and make the most out of it.
From where I’m standing, anyone who’d rather mope is the one with real issues.
You do realize it’s entirely possible to hold more than one disparate emotions at once, right? If I knew the world was ending tomorrow, I’d definitely be excited that I wouldn’t have to scrub any fucking toilets at work, even if I would be sad/scared/etc that I couldn’t further accomplish or experience things I wanted to before I died.
Eh, it’s not like you can do anything about it. Why worry?
I think about the world ending a lot. Isn’t fear of death really fear of leaving others or being left? If we all go at once, that solves that issue and I’m pretty ok with it. On days when I’m especially tired, i would choose asteroid over work.
Oh no… Literally everyone I know feels this way. That’s probably not a great sign lol
Look at Mr rainbows & sunshine here
Everything ending would definitely outweigh not having to go to work. Outweighing in the sense it’s so much more calming lol
I would worry more because now all the social contracts are out the window. People no longer have a reason to act civil.
No. I like to work. Or at least I like to create things, which work is at least correlated to on an average day.
Also all the things I made being broken would make me sad. I want them to thrive and be useful to people. Or at least bring them joy.
Would depend on the person.
When Hawaii got the ballistic missile alert a few years ago, it was essentially a test of this scenario and people went both ways.
Luckily the 9 to 5 mentality has already changed a bit after the Covid-19 pandemic :-)
Yeah, every hour is a working hour! Every space is a workplace! I’ve even switched to ignoring days of the week. I can work whatever days would be best!
It’s been pretty great honestly. I can work or take time off as needed.
“If the world was ending you’d come over, right?”
Seriously though I think you need to look for ways of changing your workplace if it’s possible. We probably only have one life.
I’m in a good place at work. I just want to be exploring my creativity. Unfortunately, that will never pay as much.
They say to never do what you love for work or it’ll become a chore. Make time to be creative, even if it’s only one weekend a month, it’ll refill the creative juices and balance out the balance
They also say to do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life. They say lots of things, many of them contradictory.
I think your advice of intentionally setting aside time is wise, though. I believe that too often we take for granted that things will just happen, and also overestimate the chilling effect of “not being spontaneous”.
I didn’t say I wanted to do it for work. I just would rather be doing it. Even in the case it made me money it wouldn’t be enough.
Do you need it to pay as much? I hope that someday you get to have as much creativity in your life as you want, friend. And that it’s not only at the end of the world.
Just trying to survive, and god forbid thrive, out here
I suppose I’d be the most interested in what people have to say. Maybe you’d get closure on unexpected things.
Probably a little bit of both
no. I don’t have kids (by choice) exactly because I don’t want to worry about “all ending” IDGAF. I was born a slave so I only have glimpses of what an amazing life is but can never have it coz I have to work to eat. So if it ends it ends, at least I can sleep
Orgy time.
I don’t worry too much about what might happen. If the world ends it was probably supposed to. Everything that happens had to have happened that way. It’s a waste of time worrying about what might have been different.
What the fuck? You posed this exact question a year ago: https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/t/864244/Suppose-we-knew-the-world-was-ending-Would-the-fear/votes/up
Explain yourself.
