Have you ever had an existential angst?

Question

And if yes, did you fight or flee?

Answer 1

Not at all my friend because am a believer of God.

Answer 2

Sure. Didn't we all back in high school? None of us knew who we were, and what we were supposed to be doing. Highschool was like the island with the lord of the flies, with curious power struggles and nothing our parents our teachers would tell us seem to help us survive. We pretty much had to figure it out on our own. Some of us became conformist, while others looked at the pighead without flinching and confronted it.

I also would like to comment on the guy who said "no" because I am a firm believer in God. Soren Kierkegaard was a firm believer in God. So was Hans Christian Andersen. They were both Christian existentialist. You don't have to be an atheist to experience existential angst. The only difference between the two is the atheist source of meaning is himself, the theist's source of meaning is God.

Answer 3

I haven't, but I know several people who would say that they have.

Existential angst generally is the not knowing of who one is or who the self is. The challenge in such angst is that we change over time. Attempting to create a non-changing version of ourselves is resisted.

For example, you were once a child and tolder. You are no longer this. Once you were uneducated and maybe foolish. You now are educated and wiser or have more widsom. You may once have been short, you are now taller.

Eastern philosophy would likely describe the angst as the unwillingness to accept the concept of impermanence in life/universe.

Answer 4

I'm having one now and I am neither fighting or fleeing.

Answer 5

I have lived and breathed existential angst.
I have both fought and fleed, mostly fled.
Now, I try to deep breath

Answer 6

sure everyone has it, well what i did was nurtured it