You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You both like philosophy.
Stranger: hello
You: hello
Stranger: how are you?
You: good, and you?
Stranger: meh, just dealing with existential crisis # 100000000 on my end
Stranger: aka i'm doing just fine
You: yeah, that sounds like a pretty average day.
You: aka that sucks
Stranger: ha nah it's actually completely fine. i always assume everyone is pretty much enduring the same mindfuck once they reach a certain age
You: yup, probably
Stranger: why philosophy?
You: because philosophy is life
You: i like contemplating even when it makes me want to fall off a cliff
You: you?
Stranger: ha
Stranger: you know i share that sentiment
Stranger: do you find it often makes you want to fall off a cliff?
You: meh. semi-monthly. (or however you would phrase that)
Stranger: so than your odds for philosophizing aren't too bad :)
You: yeah, probably not gonna die from it.
Stranger: cheers to that holding true
You: existential crises though? happens at least once a week.
You: *sound of clinking glasses*
Stranger: ah, it seems to accompany life
Stranger: altho
You: yup
Stranger: do you think people who lived way before us had as many existential crises?
Stranger: sometimes i find it hard to imagine cavemen fretting over their own existence
You: it depends cause in the age pre-reformation and post-stone age, i dont believe so.
You: pre-stone age i think they'd be more worried about getting eaten
You: post-reformation though?
You: most definitely
Stranger: huh
Stranger: it might actually be nice to have to worry about getting eaten all the time- sure gives life a purpose: live
Stranger: you think there was as much self-reflection as there is now post- reformation?
You: perhaps the amount of existential crises has gone up as time goes on though because the tension of uncertainty builds
You: maybe. probably not
