Quote:So I ask you, how did you get over this hump?
I'm not sure an introspective person can completely. To be aware of one's mortality and to fear death is by no means an atheist monopoly. I think it's healthy. An obsession with death is not healthy,and clinical help may be needed to overcome such an obsession..
Your struggle seems to be learn to more 'now centred' and to drop some ideas about success and the value of one's life. Those things have nothing to do with atheism.
ME? Today I'm retired. I have everything I need,and most things I want. I am content. I appreciate and enjoy life (this second I'm enjoying this) I'm afraid of dying.(all mammals are,it's a hard wired survival mechanism) but do not fear being dead, just as I have no fear of the aeons I did not exist.
I am important to me and a handful of other people.Once the last person who knew me dies, it will be as if I never existed. It is thus for most human beings. This bothers me not all. What matters is I exist right now.
The point of life is that it ends (Franz Kafka)
