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l'enfer, c'est la répétition

Benkei March 18, 2022 at 18:54 1375 views 16 comments
Not again.

Yet again... I swipe up. Another reel, another tiktok, another half hour, gone. It's after midnight and my wife is upstairs, sleeping. I don't know what I'm still doing here, languishing on the couch. I can't be bothered to get up to go to bed. How many nights and evenings have been like this?

I sigh, bored, tired and annoyed with myself. I glance at the TV. I lost track of the plot. Something with zombies. Whatever.

Comments (16)

frank March 18, 2022 at 19:58 #669021
Reply to Benkei
Might be new onset schizophrenia.
Tobias March 18, 2022 at 22:42 #669080
Quoting Benkei
Not again.

Yet again... I swipe up. Another reel, another tiktok, another half hour, gone. It's after midnight and my wife is upstairs, sleeping. I don't know what I'm still doing here, languishing on the couch. I can't be bothered to get up to go to bed. How many nights and evenings have been like this?

I sigh, bored, tired and annoyed with myself. I glance at the TV. I lost track of the plot. Something with zombies. Whatever.


Hey! I happen to call that having a life!
Baden March 18, 2022 at 22:46 #669082
Reply to Benkei

I refuse to believe you spend your evenings watching TV and looking at Tik Tok.
Baden March 18, 2022 at 22:47 #669084
Carving miniature windmills out of blocks of Edammer, maybe.
Caldwell March 18, 2022 at 22:53 #669087
Reply to Benkei Comment ça va, Benk? Je comprends.

Languishing on the couch, bored, tired.

Paine March 18, 2022 at 23:10 #669099
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Benkei March 19, 2022 at 13:39 #669424
Reply to Tobias Hell is littered with demons, fiends and sinners. Which are you?
Tobias March 19, 2022 at 13:44 #669425
The lost soul. I have missed the night bus, now I am here.... Back here, actually, to dwell.
Hanover March 19, 2022 at 14:09 #669430
Reply to Benkei My wife got one of those sleeping masks so that her sleeping wouldn't interfere with my late night internet surfing. That would solve your main problem of being relegated to the couch.
Agent Smith March 19, 2022 at 14:54 #669446
Quoting frank
Might be new onset schizophrenia


:rofl:
Agent Smith March 19, 2022 at 14:54 #669448
Quoting Tobias
Hey! I happen to call that having a life!


:ok: I happen to call that the life I want. :smile:
Agent Smith March 19, 2022 at 14:55 #669449
Quoting Paine
The beatings will continue until morale improves.


:smile:
Deleted User March 19, 2022 at 18:21 #669492
Quoting Paine
The beatings will continue until morale improves.


:smile:
baker March 20, 2022 at 19:10 #670140
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Would your grandfather (or other male progenitor) who fought in the great wars be proud of you?
Benkei March 20, 2022 at 19:11 #670143
Reply to baker Yes.
Joshs March 20, 2022 at 19:20 #670148
Reply to Benkei Quoting Benkei
I sigh, bored, tired and annoyed with myself.


Sounds like mundane boredom. If you’re not careful, you may begin to experience Profound Boredom.

According to Heidegger, in profound boredom, the world as a whole appears empty and holds us in limbo. “ Dasein as such can no longer go along with things in the world because it is entranced as Da-sein, and indeed as a whole. What entrances is nothing other than the temporal horizon.”The moment of vision which properly makes Dasein possible is simultaneously announced in this telling refusal of beings as a whole.”

Tik Tok may be your ticket to enlightenment.