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Originally Posted by peter12
It's a valid perspective. This is the time when you should be the most busy in preparing yourself for your mid and later life.
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And why is this exactly?
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Shouldn't building your career, having a family, and enjoy the peak physical point of your life tend to answer some of these questions for you?
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And to some people these things hold no appeal or meaning, so they search for answers elsewhere.
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People have also completely neglected cultural or religious answers as it they are now treated as automatically invalid.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you're not nearly as special and unique as you think you are? Plenty of people are completely capable of studying these various concepts and fully or partially embracing them, or dismissing them on their own terms.
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Considering we live in basically a materialist paradise
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And this poses a huge problem for people who feel anxious in the absence of anything transcendental. I don't happen to be one of them, but I'm familiar with something called empathy, which I'd highly recommend you try out one day.