The Existential Crisis Iceberg

sometimes and rarely I'm on Tik Tok and not long ago on that app I came across the so-called existential crisis Iceberg now as far as I can tell this was originally posted on Reddit by a user called kvic into r/ iberg charts I don't know if they made it they were just reposting it but the version on Tik Tok

has over 5 million views and half a million likes so it's obviously captured some people's imagination and I thought we could take a look we start at the top of the iceberg with everyone has their own complex life this doesn't seem like an entirely radical realization but it's a common enough Revelation that it has a

name they call it s which is defined by one website as the profound feeling of realizing that everyone including strangers passing in the street has a life as complex as one's own which they're constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it like I say this isn't super revolutionary on the surface everybody knows that you're

not the only character in this play but we do almost always feel like the main character and we kind of forget that to everybody else even to our closest friends we are just access iies to their life we're Side characters to their play it's quite profound when you really sit with it for a while and realize that

this world is just brimming with conscious experience most of which you'll never even know about that alone get to engage with much less experience next worry about future again very straight forward you start to realize that there are things in life that matter when you grow out of your childhood you realize that you can't

spend all day long just thinking about your next meal or who you're going to play with at lunchtime no you've got to think about things like taxes and owning a house and all of that kind of fun stuff and it's clear to see how this can lead to an existential crisis especially when this goes wrong doesn't really