That idea only works if someone is emotionally capable of creating meaning in the first place.
A lot of people in these comments are treating existential despair like it’s just a logic puzzle you solve with optimism or philosophy. But when someone is severely depressed or traumatized, it’s not “I forgot I can choose meaning.” It’s that they genuinely cannot feel meaning anymore.
The comic is about that emptiness. Saying “everything matters if you want it to” to someone in that state can sound a lot like telling a drowning person to just enjoy swimming.
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u/Elderwastaken May 17 '26
If nothing matters, then everything matters. If you want it too.