Fuck you. I don't owe you a reason for a goddamn thing.
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i have a damn good reason but i'm not gonna tell people because my whole life i've faced rejection for who i really am because other people are superficial assholes who fail to comprehend something meaningful when they see it.
Great question!
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Couldn't give you an answer beyond my passion for listening to music, watching cartoons/anime, writing fanfiction/other works ( very slowly ), and playing games. General life love things for me, I guess.
I find pleasure and having fun to be a good enough reason for me to exist right now.
Why is anything good? Existence isn't a question of value.
What makes your existence any more or less meaningful than a speck of dust in some distant nebula? Does the fact that we breathe, shit, and wax poetic about the hallucinations we derive from our bundles of nerves really amount to anything when we know how impermanent it is? I say no
There is no meaning to life - there is no good or bad for being around at any one time.
Some people try to fill this hole by convincing themselves that service to others, or great accomplishments in their eyes, will somehow tip some cosmic scale and demonstrate/reward their goodness.
The bee doesn't examine it's own life, yet many believe their lives are worth living (because it benefits other life).
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No help here, I guess.
I exist because I do, I will until I don't, which will be earlier than I think, and the only alternative is to "clock out early", which I was told to avoid doing.
I am.
anal and weed and all my hot AF transsexual friends make it kinda alright, sometimes. especially when my friends fuck me and we're blazed.
here's a better question to ask: why should anyone need to justify their own existence?
Who really benefits from that mindset? Who benefits from systems that force people to justify their existence in some way? I'm thinking about economics, and politicians making welfare recipients jump through hoops that cost money more than they save to "earn" basic necessities, and the implications for people with less-understood disabilities and older adults with dementia and people who are marginalized in other ways, and how all of this fits into a world where tech companies want to replace everyone's jobs and hobbies and relationships with AI. (Granted, I doubt LLMs will ever be reliable enough to fully replace humans in some things, and some people will always want relationships with real humans, but there's plenty of other tech being developed out there too.) Everyone on Earth might have an "unjustified" existence as far as society is concerned someday, if we continue with this mindset.
To answer the second part of your question, though, about why should we care: because we are all fellow humans. I think others here have answered that part in more depth.
That's exactly the problem though, "you matter" is a common sentiment but that doesn't actually match lived experience for a lot of people. Lack of community, lack of purpose, lack of improvement, lack of direction/hope etc.
Are you saying that some people's lived experience doesn't support their own existence mattering? If so, (1) talking to loved ones or a therapist might change that perspective, and (2) if that doesn't work or isn't an option, you can find a purpose for yourself. If you find something you believe in, or something that you're glad exists, that you can contribute to even if only in a small way, you'll probably find yourself seeing that your existence can and does matter after all. Even just answering people's questions on Lemmy makes a little bit of a difference. People commenting here have helped me; even if I stopped believing all humans inherently matter, I'd say all the anonymous people who have helped me and others with our questions matter.
I don't mean on a small scale or personal level, I'm saying it's just a fact-of-life for many. It's why escapism, gambling, hustle culture/gig workers, crowd-funding for survival, deaths-of-despair are things. Living within a system that doesn't care about individuals.