Nothing Matters

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This is how I feel sometimes

Like I'll go round and round in my head, thinking about the "big questions" and a lot of the time I'll reach the same conclusion; that nothing matters

Like just now for instance; I can remember thinking (less than 5 minutes ago) about something really important and my conclusion was, "nothing matters" and now I can't even remember what this majorly important thing was that I was thinking about
Because obviously nothing matters

Does everyone do this

I don't even know if it's philosophical or psychological

It sounds like your mind is experiencing philsophical nihilism.

You should look it up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism

I think everybody has that thought sometimes. Most of the people I've known have. And, in the grand scheme of things, it is true. The universe is a big place and our planet is just one single tiny rock floating in it out of billions so nothing any of us do actually matters on a universal scale. Even on a global, national or state scale, as one person out of millions, thousands, hundreds what we do doesn't matter much if at all. That said, the most important part is whether or not something matters to you. It doesn't need to matter to anybody else. As long as it matters to you it can have a major impact on your life.

It's grounding

A philosopher like Camus would advise you to resolve that you will find a reason to be happy *despite* nothing mattering. That rebellion against nothing mattering, that rebellion against the absurdity in nothing mattering, *itself* can be a cause for you to feel a sense of meaning again. Then you can be happy about finding meaning in your life again.

There is a lot going on in the world that is more important than my every day grind and issues I may have. There are people who are in a war situation and being perscueted by another. Some people are struggling in other profound ways as well that I am not and I think of deep afflication and it can make at times make my situation have more perspective and humbling.

Also, I am a Christian and used to get worried more easily on every day things of the world like bills and if you will run out of money. Now I tend not to worry about these things anymore and follow Jesus' lead when he told us to follow him and worry not for things of this world like what we will eat and what we shall wear (Matthew 6:25-34).

After answering your question as this has helped me in the past and come up in my life I decided to make a short blog post on this question.
https://www.racheltestimony.com/2025/07 ... rried.html

It matters to you if you're interested.

I'm mostly a nihilist politically, and I see a lot of philosophy and theology as a bit of a waste of space. Then there's psychobabble. Generally I'm more interested in getting my own material and emotional needs fulfilled, but sometimes I take an interest in the babbly stuff because it can be fun to chew things over and you never know if something will pop out of the end of it that's actually worth something.

It matters to me what government we've got in the UK and whether Farage can get in next time and cause real hardship for those on low incomes with tax breaks for the rich.

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Well it matters to me too, but in practical terms there's nothing I can do to stop it happening. I suppose I could vote, but I'm in a safe Labour seat, so it'd make no difference. I could campaign against him but nobody ever listens to me.

Nihilism is not uncommon. It is more common with prosperity and leisure. Consider Solomon;

Ecc_2:11  Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Solomon had grown distant from his God. He came to see little purpose in life because his perspective came to be filled with himself.

Survival keeps most of us centered in reality. Prosperity can distort reality such that we see ourselves as the center of the universe.If you are unable to see God at the center, you might benefit from trying to help others. Self-focus can ultimately be self-destructive.

Nothing matters, except what you create and assign meaning to.

Life is improv. So tell a joke, do a dance, have fun in the costume department.

Speech: “All the world’s a stage”

By William Shakespeare
(from As You Like It, spoken by Jaques)

" All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."

When there is nothing to keep me stimulated, then nothing will matter.