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Old 07-06-2020, 10:13 PM
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I understand your last paragraph. I freelance. I started out working for an agency that promised great things. But the office politics, the working constraints soon palled and while music was a wonderful hobby, it turned out to be an awful profession - in that field at least.
I suppose I get some satisfaction now because I can choose what I pick up to an extent. I can also exercise creativity which will get me almost nowhere financially but there's time to do it. However, work sometimes dries up. Thankfully I'm adaptable enough to take up anything that pays something toward my survival!
In one respect, you're in a wonderful position: hopefully you pull in enough money to get by and you can look on it as income to finance what at the moment is your hobby, writing and illustrating.
I think lockdown is depressing us all... So I can understand how the difficulties of making a start - getting published - is amplified. It's going to be hard.
But you certainly aren't as you describe: a dead weight to society. Under non-lockdown circumstances you'd be doing a useful job, in contact with people, exercising your imagination in your creativity in your spare time.
Be brave. This lockdown can't go on forever...well, if it does we might as well all give up. But it won't. Meantime, work on your portfolio.

As others have said here, we aren't truly free and as individuals in society we have to "do what Romans do" or find ourselves ostracised. So...existentialism only works to a certain extent.
All the best...
Thank you Lorelyen for your kind words and encouragement. Yeah people tend to get those pesky "who Am I", "What is my Purpose in Life", questions that creep up every once in a while. This Quarantine is not making things any easier.
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Old 30-06-2020, 03:32 AM
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I was thinking about getting books about the two philosophies to read and study from. It's interesting to me.

"Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity"

"The Trouble with Being Born"

"Existentialism Is a Humanism"
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Old 04-08-2020, 12:59 AM
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I was thinking about getting books about the two philosophies to read and study from. It's interesting to me.

"Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity"

"The Trouble with Being Born"

"Existentialism Is a Humanism"
Hmmm, I don't know that the first one would make my summer reading list. I mean why would someone go to the bother of writing a book if nothing matters? Not exactly the kind of material cliff hangers are made of. Although, I suppose Seinfeld claimed it was "a show about nothing" and that was hilarious. Maybe its a comedy? Written in first person dead pan no doubt.
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