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Opposite of a Memento Mori?</h2><p id="0ddc">Existential dread is the concept of a feeling of difficulty with dealing with the world, your place in the world, and your future. Someone who is thinking about their place in the world can’t help but think of the gradual decline and eventual failure of their meat vehicle.</p><p id="d3f0">The concept of aging can be difficult for just about anyone, and not even wealthy actors with yachts can avoid it. Just look at how much time and money actors spend on Botox, plastic surgery, and other subdermal skin injections. They are most certainly trying to dodge reality.</p><p id="c949"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/azjti7/leonardo_dicaprio_refuses_to_date_a_woman_over_25/">Leo tends to date women during the time of their lives when they are a lot less likely to use such wrinkle-reducing technologies. He</a>’s got a narrow acceptable range from 18–25. Only Leo knows his own mind, but it’s quite possible that he is trying to stave off his own struggles with aging and his own looming death by dating much younger women. S<a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/depression/existential-depression">ome who struggle with existential dread may have difficulty maintaining relationships</a> and that seems to be what is happening in Leo’s situation. They barely have a chance to have their smile lines come in.</p><figure id="9cca"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*26RSBvq9PiB_0ydBix5IuA.jpeg"><figcaption>These women were plants by DiCaprio’s publicist in order to make the point that ‘women do it too’. By Matej Grochal — Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78652220">https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78652220</a></figcaption></figure><p id="6cbb" type="7">DiFactrio (I’m so, so sorry) Fact: Some of Leonardo DiCaprio’s most famous roles include a cotton plantation chattel slavery enthusiast, a developmentally disabled child, and a capitalistic financial criminal. He actually NEEDED to break up with these women. Otherwise, viewers won’t take him seriously as a bad person onscreen and he’ll never get that Emmy.</p><h2 id="a84c">Conclusion</h2><p id="3fea">I feel sad f

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or Leo. He will never know the comfort of a woman who has become more fully empowered, beautiful, and brilliant through the process of decades of time and experience. He won’t fully see her struggles and successes. He won’t see her get that new job after so many setbacks or one who recovered from that difficult MCL surgery. He hasn’t had the experience of being with a woman who has challenged herself, has had many experiences, and still looks pretty darn good regardless of her age.</p><p id="d247">Those of us in the know understand that those “smile lines” don’t require surgery or Botox, despite what <b>garbage </b>our browser search results may yield when we search the term. Women are beautiful whether they’re 40 or 90 — that beauty comes from a place that isn’t fully comprised of the romanticization of a youthful figure or even from romance at all.</p><p id="b491">My grandma walks with a quad cane and a support person walks side-by-side with her to prevent falls. She no longer knows my name. She is one of the most absolutely beautiful women on planet Earth right now. There’s a lot more to a woman's life than her youngest adult years, and this poor fellow, rich as he may be, may never be able to fully understand or appreciate that simple fact.</p><p id="3b4e">Existential dread is about worrying that life doesn’t have a meaning or worrying about not knowing its meaning. By purposely limiting himself romantically, he is losing some way of attaining information about some of the best things in life, like getting to know a woman in a different stage of her life.</p><p id="a419">Be good to one another.</p><p id="d602">**They’re Fibonacci and DaVinci. Try opening a book sometime instead of yelling at your kid because they’re playing Roblox instead of doing schoolwork.</p><p id="ab0c"><i>Don’t judge me for this celebrity gossip piece. I need to reserve a first-class flight to Southern California in order to get a carbuncle lanced. In order to do that, I need to achieve Medium Partner Program status, so that I can afford Dr. Pimple Popper’s copay. I also need to be able to afford at least a couple of meals’ worth of food from Erewhon, so maybe about $350? This piece was super necessary.</i></p></article></body>

Leo DiCaprio and Existential Dread

This Is About How He Broke up With That 26-Year-old

Leonardo “crows feet aren’t for women” DiCaprio, folks. By Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79464429

Get the hell out of my way TMZ, I can engage in yellow journalism too!

Pre-ramble

Recently, Leonardo DiCaprio, nearly the most famous public figure Leonardo of all time (right after the katana-wielding, pizza-loving turtle who led the Ninja Turtles and who is also my #1 pick in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time on the SNES) broke up with his girlfriend Camilla Morrone. She was 26.

Why is this relevant? This is relevant because I need something to do for a few minutes so that I don’t have to think about how the West Coast is due to become a seasonally fiery hellscape of pungent smoke any moment now. This is also relevant so that I don’t have to think about Pumpkin Spice ANYTHING for the briefest of moments.

Speaking of Fall staples and brief moments, I would like to take the briefest of moments to thank the reader that sent me these Uggs I’m wearing while writing. Gaaaawd, they are comfortable! No socks necessary, just the purest of tingles.

At first I was like “Ugh.” but now I’m like “Uggy uggy ugg ugg!”. Photo by Thibault Penin on Unsplash

Fun Fact: Leonardo of TMNT fame is incredibly popular in Italy. The middle management mutant has provided inspiration for the names of both a famous Italian painter and a famous Italian mathematician!**

What’s the Opposite of a Memento Mori?

Existential dread is the concept of a feeling of difficulty with dealing with the world, your place in the world, and your future. Someone who is thinking about their place in the world can’t help but think of the gradual decline and eventual failure of their meat vehicle.

The concept of aging can be difficult for just about anyone, and not even wealthy actors with yachts can avoid it. Just look at how much time and money actors spend on Botox, plastic surgery, and other subdermal skin injections. They are most certainly trying to dodge reality.

Leo tends to date women during the time of their lives when they are a lot less likely to use such wrinkle-reducing technologies. He’s got a narrow acceptable range from 18–25. Only Leo knows his own mind, but it’s quite possible that he is trying to stave off his own struggles with aging and his own looming death by dating much younger women. Some who struggle with existential dread may have difficulty maintaining relationships and that seems to be what is happening in Leo’s situation. They barely have a chance to have their smile lines come in.

These women were plants by DiCaprio’s publicist in order to make the point that ‘women do it too’. By Matej Grochal — Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78652220

DiFactrio (I’m so, so sorry) Fact: Some of Leonardo DiCaprio’s most famous roles include a cotton plantation chattel slavery enthusiast, a developmentally disabled child, and a capitalistic financial criminal. He actually NEEDED to break up with these women. Otherwise, viewers won’t take him seriously as a bad person onscreen and he’ll never get that Emmy.

Conclusion

I feel sad for Leo. He will never know the comfort of a woman who has become more fully empowered, beautiful, and brilliant through the process of decades of time and experience. He won’t fully see her struggles and successes. He won’t see her get that new job after so many setbacks or one who recovered from that difficult MCL surgery. He hasn’t had the experience of being with a woman who has challenged herself, has had many experiences, and still looks pretty darn good regardless of her age.

Those of us in the know understand that those “smile lines” don’t require surgery or Botox, despite what garbage our browser search results may yield when we search the term. Women are beautiful whether they’re 40 or 90 — that beauty comes from a place that isn’t fully comprised of the romanticization of a youthful figure or even from romance at all.

My grandma walks with a quad cane and a support person walks side-by-side with her to prevent falls. She no longer knows my name. She is one of the most absolutely beautiful women on planet Earth right now. There’s a lot more to a woman's life than her youngest adult years, and this poor fellow, rich as he may be, may never be able to fully understand or appreciate that simple fact.

Existential dread is about worrying that life doesn’t have a meaning or worrying about not knowing its meaning. By purposely limiting himself romantically, he is losing some way of attaining information about some of the best things in life, like getting to know a woman in a different stage of her life.

Be good to one another.

**They’re Fibonacci and DaVinci. Try opening a book sometime instead of yelling at your kid because they’re playing Roblox instead of doing schoolwork.

Don’t judge me for this celebrity gossip piece. I need to reserve a first-class flight to Southern California in order to get a carbuncle lanced. In order to do that, I need to achieve Medium Partner Program status, so that I can afford Dr. Pimple Popper’s copay. I also need to be able to afford at least a couple of meals’ worth of food from Erewhon, so maybe about $350? This piece was super necessary.

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