Nihilism & Fatalism Meet @ The #Fu*kitBucket

Kendrick Lamar has a pretty popular song right now called “Not Like Us”. The song is great, I’m not here to talk about his Drake dis track other than to touch on nihilism and fatalism. They often meet in a mixing bowl I call the Fuck It Bucket. When things get stressful enough, I have a proven track record of saying nothing I do matters so why do anything. This freezing is what I refer to as the #FuckitBucket phenomenon.

Now if I get stuck there it is a problem so instead I fill it with things to not worry about. I am still finding balance in all things, including what to worry about and what I have no control over and never will. This is where having a belief in a higher order than yourself can be beneficial as well. Not that one must believe in God with a capital G, but accepting that there are things greater than yourself and your ability to comprehend is essential to spiritual health.

I say that faith is important, but I have spent a long time wrestling in my head with questions of “Why was I born?” “What is the meaning of life?” “What is the genesis of life and the universe?”. The best I can come up with is I know that in myself is a desire for order. I do not know if I want to live in a universe with no plan or guidance. I do not know why I feel this, but I know it deep down. I also do not know what this plan or force stems from, and I know that I will never know. So whatever that force is I try to listen for, and when I speak I give it my worries that I know no answer to.

Thereby symbolically and mentally I have filled my bucket with my worries and I won’t get in there I need to stay out here and work on the worries I know I can solve! This keeps me from freezing these days. This is part of what I owe my peace and sobriety to.

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.”

From faith comes “Hope” and without hope you have nothing. I chose not to live in a universe without rules and guidance, so I am left to live by my own. Thereby I create my own universe of meaning with faith, belief, and hope. I feel that my consciousness must stem from something other than just the atoms whirling through the universe that make me up, and their electrical charge.

As always, thank you for Riding With Me!

Recorded: 2/24/2025 – 2/25/2025
Visibility: Sunny / Snow

Destinations in chronological order:

South Charleston, WV: B-30:39, 39:41-1:07:59, 1:46:27-2:07:53, 2:44:00-3:02:58, 3:05:03-3:22:30, 3:51:31-4:16:06, 5:09:55-E
Chestnut Street, US60/MacCorkle Avenue, Ohio Avenue, Kentucky Avenue, Rock Lake Drive, Pike Street, Allview Drive, Barrett Street, Main Drive, Lincoln Drive, Kanawha Turnpike, Old Union Carbide Laboratories, Montrose Drive, Thomas Hospital Rear Entrance, I64, Dunbar Toll Bridge, Ford Street, Chesapeake Street, WV601/Jefferson Road, US119/Corridor G, Southridge, Marshall Way, WV214/Oakhurst Drive, Village Drive, Cove Way, Maple Street

Charleston, WV: 30:39-39:41, 2:07:53-2:44:00, 3:02:58-3:05:03, 3:39:31-3:51:30
Kanawha Turnpike, Daventon Road, Wayside Drive, US119/Corridor G, I64, Lee Street, Clendenin Street. Daniel Boone Way, Martin Luther King Boulevard, Joseph Street, Mary Street, Court Street, Charleston Town Center, Saint Francis Hospital, US119/Pennsylvania Avenue, US60/Washington Street, Tennessee Street, HollerHood Gas Station, Rush Hour I64-US119, WV25/7th Avenue, North Charleston, Iowa Street, US60/Patrick Street, Patrick Street Bridge, US60/WV61/MacCorkle Avenue

Dunbar, WV: 1:07:59-1:11:23, 1:37:34-1:46:27, 3:22:38-3:39:31
I64, Dutch Hollow Road, Stewart Avenue, WV25/Fairlawn Avenue, WV25/10th Street, Dunbar Toll Bridge, King Street, Fletcher Square/Dunbar Plaza, WV25/Dunbar Avenue/7th Avenue

Cross Lanes, WV: 1:11:23-1:12:57, 1:24:26-1:37:34
I64, WV62/Cross Lanes Drive/Washington Street West – Got Stuck Behind a Bus, Dutch Hollow Road

Nitro, WV: 1:12:57-1:24:26
I64, WV25/1st Avenue, WV62/Cross Lanes Drive

Alum Creek, WV: 4:16:06-4:30:03, 4:55:02-5:09:55
US119/Corridor G

Danville. WV: 4:30:03-4:55:02
US119/Corridor G, CR5/Veterans Memorial Bypass/Riverside Drive, 3rd Street, Park Avenue, Lumber Street, Smoot Avenue

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