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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
When people talk about this “existential crisis” or the big one, the “existential meltdown,” they are talking about a very heavy situation for your brain. It is not like you have too much stress from your boss or a bad week with your boyfriend. No, it is a complete break of the machine you use to understand your life. It is that ugly feeling when the little map you use to walk through reality breaks into pieces, and you find yourself totally cooking in your own thoughts, asking who are you, why are you on this planet, and what is the point of doing anything at all?
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"Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on,
is the superhuman achievement."