TL;DR: Recognizing what's causing my existential crisis and that the existential crisis means nothing doesn't stop me from struggling with an existential crisis, hence the struggle means nothing, and that makes me sad. Rinse repeat ad nauseam. Many people have at least one point in their life where they can reference all other events relative to that one point in time. Some examples are the 9/11 attacks or having children (not that those two things have anything in common, unless you've seen the bedrooms of most two year old kids...both things exemplify the word "chaos"). Many American adults over the age of 25 or 30 can remember exactly what they were doing when 9/11 happened, or what events were going on in their life when their children came into being. I think the reason for this is because events on that scale tend to completely sideswipe our lives, for good or bad, and that sideswipe creates a mental time stamp that marks a change in some aspect of life...
An amateur adult's perspective on life, adulting, and other things.