Optimistic Nihilism

Life is meaningless and that’s exactly why you can make it meaningful.

Neeramitra Reddy
Curated Newsletters
3 min readSep 7, 2020

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Meaning of Life

Well, every single human in existence has definitely pondered over this.

Oh, you haven’t? Stop lying!

What possible meaning could an insignificant existence such as ours have in the face of the unfathomable universe?

Before even wondering about the above question, a scarier question has to be addressed.

Does Life even have any meaning?

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Nihilism

Turns out life has no meaning or purpose after all. Anything could happen to you this second and it would absolutely not matter in the grand scheme of things.

In other words, you don’t matter at all.

Before you drown in dread and pessimism, here’s the twist here — Since nothing matters, you can choose what matters!

Source: Google

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