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>>4759735

A NEET or hikikomori does not necessarily seek out a normal life.

Actually, first, ask yourself, what is life? You're born, raised, educated and depending on your education level, you find a job, work it for the next 40 years until you have enough saved up to retire, slowly rot away, and become nothing more than a tombstone in the ground, once again forgotten in 1000 years time when another civilization digs us up and sticks our bodies in museums.

You see, life is essentially all but pointless. This is not a bad thing, per se, but this lack of meaning to life causes people like us to not care. We haven't given up; most of us don't have any set dreams. Okay, I'm sure we'd all like to be astronauts or millionaires, who wouldn't. But what we don't want is a dead end job, slaving away for decades of our lives to make other people richer, so that when our expiration date comes, we can hope to have enough money that we can retire. We have what we have, and we do what we do. We're comfortable living a solitary life. It's not even lonely, since loneliness is all but subjective. We're a part of a society of individuals who are just like us, a society that exists in the digital world, and who's existence may seem bleak to most, but is more than comfortable for us.

We exist in the internet; it's the only place we have a name and identity. There is nothing wrong with this.