logoalt Hacker News

cpburns2009today at 1:59 PM1 replyview on HN

Living only for yourself gets really boring. Children give you a life-long purpose. That and the evolutionary purpose, or drive, of life is reproduction.


Replies

inigyoutoday at 6:42 PM

I wouldn't describe existential panic/despair as a form of boredom. More like a form of cosmic terror.