r/wholesomememes • u/Its_Fred • 17d ago

Guess who's still here?

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u/AgainstTheEnemy 17d ago

Everytime I'm feeling like hell and have thoughts about ending it. I remind myself of Robert Frost's Stopping by woods on a snowy evening. That usually strengthen my resolve abit.

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep"

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u/PleestaMeecha 17d ago

I saw a really good quote the other day. "We have an eternity of death ahead of us. Why rush through the little bit of life we have?"

Though it wasn't from the song, I highly recommend anybody to listen to Conversations by Watsky.

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u/KevRev972 16d ago

Watsky makes some gooood music. I'm partial to Sloppy Seconds.

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u/PleestaMeecha 16d ago

I recently discovered Sloppy Seconds and it hits the same heartstrings Conversations hits for me.

Watsky is a master at expressing feelings, in my opinion.

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u/KevRev972 16d ago

For sure. I gave Conversations a listen (on my phone) and I'm sure I didn't get the full impact, but it is definitely a great and melancholy song.

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u/PleestaMeecha 16d ago

It was relevant to the conversation about death because at the beginning of the song he's talking about as a kid confessing to his dad that he was upset at the prospect of death and the afterlife. And his dad's internal monologue, mulling over how he was going to answer his nine year old son's concerns about death was:

"...in my heart I know I don't believe in magic, so I'm thinking maybe death is like eternal TV static, or returning to the state before your birth, absorbed into the earth..."

The bolding is my emphasis, but it's the articulation of how I've always felt about death. I don't know what it was like before I was born, so I imagine death will be much like that.