"I was loud by your low, seminary soul"

Just a collection of thoughts that have made me think a lot more positively.


I put a lot of thought into death. Not just in the traditional sense- A common theory is that it just "goes dark" forever.
This doesn't make sense to me.
See, we can only experience life. We can't experience death, it's nothing, unmeasurable, unfeelable. So you can only be alive, and the specifics come down to how the universe works. Maybe we have souls and we just instantly "shift" to another perspective. Maybe we're just a chance collection of atoms, but while you're dead a thousand universes can come and go, uncountable combinations and life forms, given infinite time the tiny probability of your exact atomic copy being formed at some point becomes inevitable... would you experience life through your own eyes again, unaware of the eternities that have passed?
Will it always be "me" or any living creature in the universe? Can you change things, or do you live your life on loop for eternity? Are there "many observers", or am I literally the universe observing itself, just another force, one entity split infinite ways?
Once I get to "am I doomed to exist forever, without being able to enjoy the escape of death?", I have to sit down and stop.

Calm down, calm down. If it goes on forever, we know it at least takes a break to start again, as you have no memory of past lives. If we live forever after this, then we don't have to worry about it until it happens, and it will probably be so unfathomably different from this (no interaction with reality, or someone would have told us by now from the beyond) that it's useless to try to figure it out before we start experiencing it. Finally, if it all does just end we won't know about it so rejoice that the conundrum will solve itself no matter what happens when our eyes finally close.


I was there once. A lot of very successful people have been.
Everyone gets shit on. Everyone has crappy months and years. Success isn't about magic. It's about statistics. The best things in life--love, fulfillment, happiness--they're about getting lucky. People rarely think about this, but life is like rolling dice. A lot of people just roll the dice once or twice, and if it doesn't come up sevens, they just start thinking that they're bad at the game. But the whole secret to living a great life, at least in my experience, is to roll the damn dice until they come up with the number you want. Then you get to relax and enjoy your winnings until you want to play again.
Rejection sucks. But it's not failure.