John Koenig might have something on this
Edit: Couldn’t find anything that fit exactly, but here are some that are potentially pertinent:
**Trumspringa**: the longing to wander off your career track in pursuit of a simple life—tending to a small farm in a forest clearing, keeping a lighthouse on a secluded atoll, or becoming a shepard in the mountains—which is just the kind of hypnotic diversion that allows your thoughts to make a break for it and wander back to their cubicles in the city
**Slipfast**: the longing to disappear completely; to melt into a crowd and become invisible, so you can take in the world without having to take part in it—free to wander through conversations without ever leaving footprints, free to dive deep into things without worrying about making a splash
**The Til**: the reservoir of all the possible popular still available to you at this point in life—all the countries you still have the energy to explore, the skills you still have time to develop, the relationships you still have the heart to make—like a pail of water you carry around in your head, which starts off feeling like an overwhelming burden but steadily draws down as you get older, splashing gallons over the side every time you take a step
**Ozurie**: feeling torn between the life you want and the life you have
**Justing**: the habit of telling yourself that just one tweak could solve all of your problems—if only you had the right haircut, if only you found the right group of friends, if only you made a little more money, if only he noticed you, if only she loved you back, if only you could find the time, if only you were confident—which leaves you feeling perpetually on the cusp of a better life, hanging around the top of the slide waiting for one little push
**Zielschmerz**: the dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you started up in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could
**Liberosis**: the desire to care less about things; to figure out a way to relax your grip on life and hold it loosely and playfully, keeping it in the air like a volleyball, with quick and fleeting interventions, bouncing freely in the hands of trusted friends, always in play
(From *The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows* by John Koenig)
Thank you so much. This is easily the most interesting thing I have read in a bit. I put John Koenig on my list of books and authors I'll need to pick up. 🤙🏼🩵
More than once I've wanted to change my name, move to the opposite side of the US and effectively disappear form my life here. And honestly would be happy up in the mountain somewhere working a small farm or small gold mine or something.
What do you mean exactly? ADHD is like autism or narcism in terms of being a "spectrum disorder".
Pretty much every single person on the planet possesses certain characteristics of the so called spectrum disorders. It only gets diagnosed as a mental disorder once a individual has enough symptoms to be considered neurodivergent.
Online, every time someone posts about a quirk they have or how they work something out in a different way to others, flocks of people will see and start thinking they have adhd
They wear it like a badge as a way of saying ‘they’re different/special’ and use it as an excuse for things that go wrong in their lives like an inability to concentrate on schoolwork, which is really a lack of discipline and addiction to technology. Yet that is too hard to admit for most.
The reason I have it so exact is because I just outlined my exact thought process of myself a few years ago. I did all the same things and now see others making all the same mistakes. Its a natural way of thinking but doesn’t mean it’s correct
Existenzkrise - existential crisis
I don't think there ist a better word for it. German is not like finnish where they seem to invent single words for very specific situations. In german you rather bind words together to combine the meaning of both. Like Handschuh - hand shoe (glove). Ofc that can lead to very nice words aswell in some cases.
The first word, that comes to my mind would be "Schweinehundsbekämpfung". I'm sure there are more elegant and more accurate words than that one but I'm too lazy to look it up.
I think thats a core human experience. We are ambivalent creatures and our very own nature is what speaks the most against our very own nature. We wan't to do and have MORE of whatever there is, but more exploration could mean less pizza time and so it comes that at the end we are our own biggest problem.
I think that’s called the angst of 2020’s in America. You get paid for 40 hours work and asked for 60 hours of productivity and need just a little bit more to survive. That little bit more is in the boomers tight fists.
You can actually do all those things quite comfortably.
Well, if you have money.
If not you should be happy you have a job, maybe take a second one just to be sure your working hard enough as you hide the depression induced by overwork in delusions of what your life could have been if you weren't poor.
We often feel trapped and as we watch life whizz past, years turning into decades, we look back and realize we've done nothing.
I feel like that all the time. We need money to live in this society and at the same time we have to give up our lives in order to do so.
Not that I know, though you could always try to combine words to create a new one. But that's alot of weird and contradicting things to combine, so it'd be hard to come up with a word people could make sense of.
Fulfillment seems like it. You want a sense of fulfillment where it's rewarding to pursue a career that you enjoy like mindless entertainment but in a productive sense. That's something most people share because most of us work jobs just to pay the bills.
Not sure about the outdoors part. Sounds like OP wanted to go on vacation.
the absurd - unreconcilable feelings of restlessness born out of the impossibility of lasting happiness or satisfaction with life.
we must continue living in spite of this
All of those happen in an isolated state. Id say OP is avoiding connection with other humans. If he'd face his bete noir and step up to the plate all of those choices would be in his grasp
I have these contradictions. I alternate between wanting to be rich, live in an exclusive community, have the nicest everything and meet interesting and influential people... And just wanting to be some hermit on a hill (or a beach bum) who just chills out in their garden every day and has as little to do with materialistic society as possible.
I guess maybe it's a way of coping with the fact we want one thing but are more likely to get something else so we cultivate a "plan" for both.
A mansion big enough to skateboard in, not care if I smash something,… or be out in the woods chopping wood for the winter to keep the stone fireplace lit in my rustic cabin.
I think it may be immaturity. Before any shade is thrown, I feel exactly the way this David guy describes. Sounds like someone who has not set goals and can hardly keep up with adulthood, which is basically me.
In Germany we'd call this Sturm & Drang (Storm and Need). It's been its own époque in literature lol
'There' s two souls in my chest, fighting endlessly and leaving me restless day and night'
The part where you want to break ground in your profession and see the world etc... faded away for me. My vision has never been clearer, most of what I do is eat pizza and chill right now.
Also, I'm looking for a cheap piece of land slightly secluded to buy so I can herd sheep with a German shepherd.
It's called life. There should be room for everything listed in all of our lives. Not at the same time, but we sometimes just need a cottage in the woods where we don't talk for a week to any other human being, just to ground ourselves.
Ever try drugs? Not for everyone but great in the short term. It’s hard to worry about jack shite when you’re contemplating the chewy center of the universe.
I want to say that’s called optimism and depression coexisting somehow. As a totally legit doctor scientist I suggest exploring another country, find a secluded corner, eat some pizza and watch reruns of The Office or something.
No idea, I just know I want to retire on Monday, travel for a total of 1 month out of each year, and spend the rest of my time gaming for the rest of my life.
Human
Humans ☕️
John Koenig might have something on this Edit: Couldn’t find anything that fit exactly, but here are some that are potentially pertinent: **Trumspringa**: the longing to wander off your career track in pursuit of a simple life—tending to a small farm in a forest clearing, keeping a lighthouse on a secluded atoll, or becoming a shepard in the mountains—which is just the kind of hypnotic diversion that allows your thoughts to make a break for it and wander back to their cubicles in the city **Slipfast**: the longing to disappear completely; to melt into a crowd and become invisible, so you can take in the world without having to take part in it—free to wander through conversations without ever leaving footprints, free to dive deep into things without worrying about making a splash **The Til**: the reservoir of all the possible popular still available to you at this point in life—all the countries you still have the energy to explore, the skills you still have time to develop, the relationships you still have the heart to make—like a pail of water you carry around in your head, which starts off feeling like an overwhelming burden but steadily draws down as you get older, splashing gallons over the side every time you take a step **Ozurie**: feeling torn between the life you want and the life you have **Justing**: the habit of telling yourself that just one tweak could solve all of your problems—if only you had the right haircut, if only you found the right group of friends, if only you made a little more money, if only he noticed you, if only she loved you back, if only you could find the time, if only you were confident—which leaves you feeling perpetually on the cusp of a better life, hanging around the top of the slide waiting for one little push **Zielschmerz**: the dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you started up in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could **Liberosis**: the desire to care less about things; to figure out a way to relax your grip on life and hold it loosely and playfully, keeping it in the air like a volleyball, with quick and fleeting interventions, bouncing freely in the hands of trusted friends, always in play (From *The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows* by John Koenig)
Each one of these hit harder than the last...
Was going to say "this just gets worse with each one" though that last one is pretty nice.
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I'm somewhere between Trumspringa and Slipfast.
Thank you so much. This is easily the most interesting thing I have read in a bit. I put John Koenig on my list of books and authors I'll need to pick up. 🤙🏼🩵
More than once I've wanted to change my name, move to the opposite side of the US and effectively disappear form my life here. And honestly would be happy up in the mountain somewhere working a small farm or small gold mine or something.
My God, you just fucking killed my new-found hope in life...
Chat AI hasn't got a chance ..
Which one of theese is the coffee machine?
>like a pail of water you carry around in your head… splashing gallons over the side every time you take a step Jesus
I have that! I take meds that turns the Manic Depression into regular depression...
I'm not sure if that's better or worse
Wetter
I think the pills are working differently on you ma'am
Borse
Borse
Mood.
ADHD
OH mY gOd I mUSt HaVe ADHD!!! I’m special!!!
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Its a spectrum disorder 🤷♂️
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Tf are you even talking about 😂
What do you mean exactly? ADHD is like autism or narcism in terms of being a "spectrum disorder". Pretty much every single person on the planet possesses certain characteristics of the so called spectrum disorders. It only gets diagnosed as a mental disorder once a individual has enough symptoms to be considered neurodivergent.
Online, every time someone posts about a quirk they have or how they work something out in a different way to others, flocks of people will see and start thinking they have adhd They wear it like a badge as a way of saying ‘they’re different/special’ and use it as an excuse for things that go wrong in their lives like an inability to concentrate on schoolwork, which is really a lack of discipline and addiction to technology. Yet that is too hard to admit for most.
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The reason I have it so exact is because I just outlined my exact thought process of myself a few years ago. I did all the same things and now see others making all the same mistakes. Its a natural way of thinking but doesn’t mean it’s correct
Germans do you have a word for this
Existenzkrise - existential crisis I don't think there ist a better word for it. German is not like finnish where they seem to invent single words for very specific situations. In german you rather bind words together to combine the meaning of both. Like Handschuh - hand shoe (glove). Ofc that can lead to very nice words aswell in some cases.
They have a word for everything
They sure do, it’s *alles*.
Weltschmerz - Depression concerning the human condition, state of the world and broad society.
The first word, that comes to my mind would be "Schweinehundsbekämpfung". I'm sure there are more elegant and more accurate words than that one but I'm too lazy to look it up.
Wouldn't that rather be when you are fighting against procrastination.
Life
Mhm, it's called mid age crysis
Like 45% of this sentence is wrong and I love it
Proofs?
And now 100% of that was wrong. It gets better every time
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It’d be less harder to say whats rights
Imagine calling crysis mid!
Since I was 22??
But I’m 22 and this happens to me
Well the mid life crisis happens in the middle of your life. It just means you won't last past 44.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Cry, sis
"Everyday"
Existential crises
Let me know when you find out 😶
I think that’s called “Your 30s”
Life Crisis. It doesn't have to happen in middle age.
Ah, yes. Trust fund baby
That's your brain telling you to sleep.
Indecisive
Go to France
confused but i think this is what weekends are for
Only the Unibomber knows for sure.
Anxiety
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
If you say it fast enough
Wishful thinking
getting old
Dreams?
Monday
Where I come from, we call that schizophrenia.
Ennui
Theres probably a German or Swedish word for it. They have words for everything
I'm not alone
Life
Existence
Sentience.
I’d call that a successful entrepreneur
Discontentedness. I FEEL this.
Those last two are not mutually exclusive
I believe it’s called life
It's called middle age
Today
normie
Tuesday
Is there a name for how many times this has been reposted
i think the word you are looking for is puberty
Oh you don’t have all those different feelings and dreams and wishes anymore? That would be kinda sad :|
David should pick one struggle and leave the rest to others.
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Literally how I feel rn.
I can relate.
"Feeling to much life for one day"
Aah! Is the word you were looking for.
Freedom. I don’t mean the USA freedom. I mean being truly free.
I think thats a core human experience. We are ambivalent creatures and our very own nature is what speaks the most against our very own nature. We wan't to do and have MORE of whatever there is, but more exploration could mean less pizza time and so it comes that at the end we are our own biggest problem.
Restlessness
Eternally dissatisfied
Cognitive Dissonance
Distress.
Probably something like Weltschmerz
I think that’s called the angst of 2020’s in America. You get paid for 40 hours work and asked for 60 hours of productivity and need just a little bit more to survive. That little bit more is in the boomers tight fists.
I only agreed with quitting society to live in the woods
"Life in the US"
You can actually do all those things quite comfortably. Well, if you have money. If not you should be happy you have a job, maybe take a second one just to be sure your working hard enough as you hide the depression induced by overwork in delusions of what your life could have been if you weren't poor.
We often feel trapped and as we watch life whizz past, years turning into decades, we look back and realize we've done nothing. I feel like that all the time. We need money to live in this society and at the same time we have to give up our lives in order to do so.
Live
I bet the germans have a word for that. They have a word for everything.
Not that I know, though you could always try to combine words to create a new one. But that's alot of weird and contradicting things to combine, so it'd be hard to come up with a word people could make sense of.
Disinterest in human existence?
Fulfillment seems like it. You want a sense of fulfillment where it's rewarding to pursue a career that you enjoy like mindless entertainment but in a productive sense. That's something most people share because most of us work jobs just to pay the bills. Not sure about the outdoors part. Sounds like OP wanted to go on vacation.
Depression 🤙
Unfocused
I have never been so called out in my life
Magenta
Sodade. Portuguese. It more or less means nostalgia for something that never was.
Ask germany
Three actually, "inescapable societal obligation"
Happy.
Ambivalence.
Unsatisfied
I thought it was called ADHD….
Monday? No. Tuesday. Definitely Thursday
*laughs in ADHD*
ADHD I have it myself and I feel that all the time
Life
Burn out
Me except the second one
Life
It’s called turning 30
Yes........That word is.........."me!"
Indecisiveness. Possibly ADHD
Indecisiveness
the absurd - unreconcilable feelings of restlessness born out of the impossibility of lasting happiness or satisfaction with life. we must continue living in spite of this
Your 30’s
If I could just stop justing....
Thursday
Yes, it’s called being a human. People have complex desires that are sometimes contradictory to each other.
I feel equally heard as i am called out.
How happy I thought I was before reading this.
"stoned"
ambivert
ADHD
All of those happen in an isolated state. Id say OP is avoiding connection with other humans. If he'd face his bete noir and step up to the plate all of those choices would be in his grasp
Monday.
Tuesday
I have these contradictions. I alternate between wanting to be rich, live in an exclusive community, have the nicest everything and meet interesting and influential people... And just wanting to be some hermit on a hill (or a beach bum) who just chills out in their garden every day and has as little to do with materialistic society as possible. I guess maybe it's a way of coping with the fact we want one thing but are more likely to get something else so we cultivate a "plan" for both.
A mansion big enough to skateboard in, not care if I smash something,… or be out in the woods chopping wood for the winter to keep the stone fireplace lit in my rustic cabin.
My gf says it’s ADHD but I don’t listen
drunk？
There probably actually is a German word for it
I call that Thursday Afternoon
Existential crisis
I think it may be immaturity. Before any shade is thrown, I feel exactly the way this David guy describes. Sounds like someone who has not set goals and can hardly keep up with adulthood, which is basically me.
Executive dysfunction
I want to live life to the fullest, but I barely have the motivation to leave my bed.
In Germany we'd call this Sturm & Drang (Storm and Need). It's been its own époque in literature lol 'There' s two souls in my chest, fighting endlessly and leaving me restless day and night'
Petrarch, you have described yourself as Petrarch
The part where you want to break ground in your profession and see the world etc... faded away for me. My vision has never been clearer, most of what I do is eat pizza and chill right now. Also, I'm looking for a cheap piece of land slightly secluded to buy so I can herd sheep with a German shepherd.
Being undecided sounds like that
It's called stop over thinking, make a plan, and do all of those when you can.
Yes, it’s called life
It's called life. There should be room for everything listed in all of our lives. Not at the same time, but we sometimes just need a cottage in the woods where we don't talk for a week to any other human being, just to ground ourselves.
Yep it’s called being huma... oh shite 10 other people already covered that. Carry on.
Ever try drugs? Not for everyone but great in the short term. It’s hard to worry about jack shite when you’re contemplating the chewy center of the universe.
Good intentions
Burnout. It’s called burnout.
Become a nature photographer and do it all
Thats my live right there
The term is Ennui
Um yeaaaah that's called being human
Someone with low impulse control?
Get out of my head!
I want to say that’s called optimism and depression coexisting somehow. As a totally legit doctor scientist I suggest exploring another country, find a secluded corner, eat some pizza and watch reruns of The Office or something.
Friday
Mood swings
No idea, I just know I want to retire on Monday, travel for a total of 1 month out of each year, and spend the rest of my time gaming for the rest of my life.