Dealing with existential nihilism

[Edwardo Piet]

Non-sequitur. A meaningful experience doesn't have to end meaningfully for the journey there to be meaningful.

In fact, meaning is subjective, we make our own meanings and personally for me the ending is when the meaning disappears. When reading a story I find the development of the story meaningful but once it ends I am always disappointed and I feel that that is where the meaning ends, not where it begins.

And we draw our own arbirary lines. We could say each moment has an ending.

And there is certainly no meaning for us once our life has ended because then we don't even exist to experience meaning. Death is the end of all meaning, not the resolution of it. There is no resolution unless we find it and we can just as easily find meaning in the journey.

And again for me personally life is an unfolding tapestry and there's meaning in that but once it has unfolded completely the meaning dies.

There's meaning in progress but once a goal is reached the meaning is dead until we work towards a new goal and go on a new journey.

For me: Meaning is growth.

I also despise the saying "all is well that ends well.". What nonsense. A long blissful journey ending terribly is far better than a long hellish journey ending well. The intensity of the ending is no more special than the intensity of the beginning or the middle or any other point in time. Every experience can be isolated and every peak matters. Well... actually what matters most of all is avoiding the craters.

But yeah... "the destination is meaningless therefore the journey is meaningless" is just a non-sequitur.

Not even every journey requires a destination. Not even every story needs an ending.

And that's just an example of the perfect solution fallacy.