Who Gives a Fuck

After reading Mark Manson’s book I realize life in high school is just competing for who gives a fuck about the most useless things. Nerds compete for higher grades which have no intrinsic value. The weeaboos compete for who has the better 2D waifu. The gamers compete for who has the higher hours played, higher rank, higher achievements. The athletes compete to have the higher hours practiced or skill level, just like the gamers. Except the gamers increase virtual attributes while athletes increase real attributes. Some want to look better than others and some want to have more friends. Some want to virtue signal and some don’t want to be seen as wrong. Some are always victims and barely anybody takes responsibility.

Why do we care about the things we care about? Because there’s nothing else to care about.