Does anybody else think things like this?

[Bedknobsandbroomsticks2]

I was on a crowded bus recently and for some reason I thought to myself, in 100 years from now, everybody on this bus will be dead, and we'll be replaced with a new set of people.
I also think about how we're essentially just dots on one of many planets.
I suppose it helps me to take life less seriously, because one day none of it will matter at all.
It's morbid but I sometimes say to myself that we're all in a permanent state of dying from the moment we're born. Essentially we start rotting away after a certain age.
They're quite depressing but also comforting thoughts in a way that make me realise small things don't matter.

Yes I feel that way too. Sometimes I feel down about my place in the world, that I’m not really high achieving and won’t be remembered, but who actually will?

There are very few people who will actually go down in history, in the grand scheme of things we are infinitesimal. It is a comfort in a weird way.

Yeah I often think things like this..I think it’s probably quite healthy in a few. Kind of realising how insignificant you are / your problems in the grand scheme of things and when there’s so much bigger things to wonder about ..whereas I reckon some people think they’re at the centre of the universe!

I do it too. It helps me to get perspective on life (i.e. none of this really matters) but it makes me feel a bit fragile.

But we're totally normal in thinking these thoughts.

I also have faith that this life isn't the end.

I have no children and find it quite liberating to know that I won't be remembered - might as well do what I like then!

See I couldn't care less about the wider world and being remembered so I never feel down. As long as my family and close loved ones remember me fondly thats what makes an impact for me.

Yes, I thought this since I was a small child. I often look around at people (and even animals) and think how weird that we are all sharing this moment in time together yet one day will just be people in photos or distant memories to just a few of those still living, it’s quite sobering, weird and depressing all at the same time. I’ve never have got my ahead around my own mortality.
I also think it’s strange that we will all be gone one day but things like certain trees etc will carry on living, silently watching all the new generations coming and going.

Yep. I will die. You will die. Everyone will die. That's 100% guaranteed - it's only the "when" that's uncertain. So, the best thing to do is make the most of the time you have now. Discover what makes you happy, what makes your life rich and meaningful. Don't leave it until tomorrow- because tomorrow may not come.

Sometimes, but then I think I go too deep with it because then I think....if nothing matters and eventually the earth will die (which it will) then why does it matter if pandas are extinct or the sea is full of plastic or the ice caps are melting? It's all pointless.

I think this when I look at old photos of long dead people. It's easy to think they lived short and uneventful lives but they would have been as long as mine and they had the same thoughts for as long as me.

We are all ants.

I think this a lot.

I think like this when in traffic as well. Like all these people all have lives and o r day none of us will be here. It freaks me out

Even someone like Bill Gates is essentially an insignificant ant in the grand scheme of it all

I look at old pictures of young people and think how they are all dead now. That was their turn to live, now is our turn and then one day, it will be someone else's turn.

Yes. When I’m stressed at work and really under the cosh, I remind myself that none of what the vast majority of us does matters a single jot in the grand scheme of things - everything will pass and in the end, we’re all just dust.

There was something shown on TV recently and they said most of the audience was now dead. I only caught the end of it on the radio.

Yes often think this. And as I get older realise just how fleeting life is. I’m starting to do things now, rather than wait (my children are older, so fewer ties on my time).

I leave no trace... i saw this scribbled into an late 18th century book with an image of a sailing ship.

To me, this sums live up perfectly. So enjoy the moment!

My gran always used to say " it's all the same a hundred years from now" which I found comforting.

My thing is when I'm watching an old programme with animals in it I can't help but think " well, that cat's long dead"

Or pictures of flowers and plants knowing that they will now be compost that has pushed out many more seasons of flowers since the picture was taken.

People, not so much, weirdly!

If planet Earth were to spontaneously combust the rest of the universe would just carry on, thats how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things. Yes l often think we are all in a constant state of flux, waiting in line, the biggest mistake people make is thinking they or their loved ones will only die when old.
Thats why l am of the mindset live for today, l don't worry re the future, because tomorrow is not guaranteed.

I love it when I remember this. It is so freeing.

None of this matters!

We are all just amusing ourselves until we die, all completely and utterly irrelevant in the grand scheme of the universe and space and time.

I was a wonderful moment when I finally figured this out. Now, I just do what I fucking well like.

When l say l don't worry re the future, l meant my own, l am still deeply passionate re nature and conservation, and leaving this planet in a better state than before.

I think like this all the time , especially at work when someone froths over a form not being completed properly or something not being finished on time . In my head none of it is important, none of it matters, it's all so insignificant . I often 'take myself out of this world' and look at the earth from afar and wonder how humans have made life so ridiculously complicated, all the silly rules we have to live by , all the hierarchy, all the non essential stuff we have - we're all just dots on a planet who are only really important to our family , there's people who live in the same road as me who don't know that I even exist.

Yes. I’m quite fascinated with history and when I see old photos from the 1800s I often think about how everyone in the photo is now dead … even the smiling happy babies and playing children - they’re all dead.

And one day people will be looking at our photos and thinking the same thing about us.

The sad thing is that there won't be many photographs in the future for people to look at as they are all on electronic devices so when the younger generation are dead and buried there will be no one looking at a photo of them wondering what their life was like .