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I don't know what I'm living for.
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Life feels so painfully empty that it's something I don't even feel like I can even ignore anymore.
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I've spent most of my life just following rules or following missions
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and goals I thought were supposed to be the answer to the emptiness in my heart.
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I'd blame it on my weight, I blame it on my appearance, I blame it on some random accolade that I need to achieve
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and then I can start living my life then things can maybe begin to make sense.
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A lot of the time I'd also use
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that goal post as a way to tell myself well I know something deeper is wrong
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but I first need to reach this goal to have a little bit of a barrier
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or a protection and then I can begin to go to that vulnerable place.
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The issue is I have been doing this for so long
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that I am not even sure that there's a life worth living behind that.
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What I mean is I am somebody that overthinks a lot, if you want to call it overthinking.
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I'm someone that just thinks too much about things and I'm sure you are too.
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You try and understand the world a bit too much
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and it ruins the experience because you can't seem to make sense of it
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and you can't seem to make sense of yourself in it, especially when you have pain.
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And I remember throughout my childhood and adolescence, I spent a lot of time thinking about relationships,
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about people, about what made people love you.
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Because for me, if I made people love me, everything would be okay.
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That was my main goal in life.
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I needed to make as many people as possible love me and to do that I had to play a role.
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I had to do this very specific formula I'd figured out a
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while back to making someone love you and it was about not being too honest, it was about pretending this.
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Anyways I won't go into the details about that random thing
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but what I mean is what that represented for me was a way out of the suffering, it was a way out of the emptiness
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and a feeling of having a footing somewhere
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that made sense on this earth and obviously as the years went on
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and my mental illness got worse and I lost
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so much due to these very problematic behaviours and I realised
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that they burnt me out more than they could ever save me.
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I was forced in many therapy sessions to sit with myself and think about what would it look like to change?
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What would it look like to not live this way, to let go of all these beliefs?
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And I'm sure like a lot of you, the answer is often, I don't know, I've never thought about that.
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It's never even felt like a possibility.
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And to be honest, the whole idea of it sounds like a just a lie, a fantasy.
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it doesn't seem real and my argument about that was that well
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if it was real I would see happy people I would see conflicting evidence in my everyday life
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and I would have seen it up until now
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but I don't feel like I do when I look to the outside to try and first to try and begin
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to find out what could possibly make someone want to live, make someone enjoy this experience of life.
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It often feels like I'm trying to understand an equation.
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Like an equation, you can probably solve it and someone will explain it to you slowly.
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But at the end of the day, it just feels like a concept.
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it's it's just letters and it's just numbers
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and we've decided they mean something
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and I feel like I am unable to fall back in love with life
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when I think of relationships friendships romantic relationships goals career aspirations lifestyle hobbies I just feel confused
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and it's a weird type of confusion it's not like the type of confusion
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that feels like it can ever be worked through it's like
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when you go through deep suffering you can either go one of two ways you can either grow
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and learn a lot or you can crash and burn
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but I also think there can sometimes to be this weird
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middle ground where it's like the veil of what life really
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is gets lifted you see behind the scenes you see the the fantasy isn't real you see
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that friendships relationships a lot of it is selfish this unconditional love doesn't exist
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because through your trauma you were forced to deeply perceive relationships
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and realize that things were not unconditional and you that to protect yourself.
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In friendships you could say well they're your friend until you start to be very inconvenient.
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Let's say if you became really really really depressed people often say well that's what friends are for
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but quietly they actually mean I will be your friend until this doesn't stop fast enough because everyone feels selfish,
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which is our natural way of being.
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So it's hard for me to fall back into the fantasy that, well, that's worth it because I don't feel anything for it anymore.
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Hobbies, I see the concept of them, I see goals, I see the concept of them, I'm like yeah but what is that for?
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If I am just still pursuing something to prove something, to use up this time on earth just to use it up,
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it feels empty, it all feels empty and it's like I can't see the point in anything anymore.
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It feels like this horrible veil has been lifted and I cannot fall back under the trance, the illusion of it all being worth it,
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of it all having meaning, because obviously the meaning is created by the person.
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But if I fundamentally disagree with everything that is around me, where do you go from there?
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If I see relationships and friendships as this fake performance no matter what
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if goals feel like another way of trying to you know prop myself up
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and and prove to the world or prove to myself
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or something that i'm worth something
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if my career feels again like this weird thing of this
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popularity thing this thing of feeling like oh i'm better than this person
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and this person this protects me more or kids
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or whatever makes people want to do things it just all feels like some iteration of the same shit.
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Just playing this game that I just, you can't win at.
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I don't feel connected to it.
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And I don't know what you do with that.
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I used to run away from this feeling by finding my meaning in literally, like I said previously, trying to make people love me.
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Trying to do everything I could to be this illusion.
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But that's not possible anymore and it doesn't even work long term.
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The main question I have after all of this is what do people live for?
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I do not understand any of it.
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I bring myself oftentimes on the weekend to lakes,
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to towns, and I try and just put my body into the situations to maybe create some spark again,
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you know, something that wants to be here, that feels something, that feels this pull, this beauty.
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I don't feel similar to somebody that has seen something that's
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so violently horrendous that even when they're out of that situation
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and they're back home safe with their family and with everything they could ever want, they just cannot fall back into love with life.
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They just feel empty and they feel disconnected from people around them and they feel like everything is just empty.
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Honestly, it scares me.
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It really does.
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because you don't hear a lot about
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that part I feel I feel like you hear a lot
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about people talking about very specific things they struggle with
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and wanting specific solutions but this feels more existential
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and it doesn't feel like it's something that I can answer
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and I think a lot of us feel this way
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and it's horrible it's absolutely horrible because it's something that is so so all-encompassing.
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It feels so much deeper than anything that anyone tries to make you worry about every day, yet you're still forced to play the role, play the performance, get up,
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go to work, put on a face and pretend you're not dealing with this.
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Try and do things on the weekend, you feel fundamentally pointless and I don't want to become a monk.
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I know oftentimes the answer to these things is, well, you've risen above the whole ego thing or you've risen above the whole
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role that society wants you to play
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and you've seen how empty it all is and you have to follow a different path.
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I don't want to follow a different path.
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I just want to enjoy my life.
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I just want to feel young because I spent my entire teenage years feeling like a 30, 40, I don't know.
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Now I'm in my early 20s and I've got my life back together,
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yet I can just sit in a room filled with peers my age and I just cannot connect to them.
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I cannot understand how they feel and I can't understand how I feel in that moment.
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No matter how much I try, no matter how much alcohol I drink, I just can't get there.
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It's like you get the first curse of dealing with these issues and then you get the double whammy of like,
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hey, and now these are fundamentally going to alienate you even more from people due to that experience itself,
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even if it's healed.
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so yeah the meaning of life i know everyone wonders that
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but i guess this is just something i wanted to vent i wanted to just talk about
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that i definitely will keep talking about it
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because it's honestly something i just keep thinking about
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and ruminating over you're not alone feeling this way and it's deeply terrifying and it's just yeah anyways see ya
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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion
Diese Sprechübung auf Niveau B2 basiert auf dem Video „I don’t understand what we’re living for“. Dieses Video enthält 122 Sätze und 1710 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 10:45. Der Sprecher spricht in natürlichem Tempo, etwa 159 Wörter pro Minute, ähnlich wie im Alltagsgespräch. 86 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen; den Rest solltest du dir vor dem Üben ansehen.
Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video
Die 15 anspruchsvollsten Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| emptiness Substantiv | Leere, Leerheit | |
| oftentimes Adverb | /ˈɔf.ənˌtaɪmz/ | oftmals, oft |
| overthink Verb | zerdenken | |
| unconditional Adjektiv | /ˌʌnkənˈdɪʃənəl/ | bedingungslos |
| veil Substantiv | /veɪl/ | Vorhang |
| illusion Substantiv | /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/ | Illusion |
| hobby Substantiv | /ˈhɑ.bi/ | Hobby, Steckenpferd |
| equation Substantiv | /ɪˈkweɪ.ʒən/ | Ausgleich, Gleichgewicht |
| selfish Adjektiv | /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/ | egoistisch, selbstsüchtig |
| confusion Substantiv | /kənˈfjuːʒən/ | Verwirrung, Durcheinander |
| accolade Substantiv | /ˈæk.əˌleɪd/ | Anerkennung, Lob |
| adolescence Substantiv | /ˌædəˈlɛsəns/ | Adoleszenz, Pubertät |
| alienate Verb | /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/ | entfremden |
| aspiration Substantiv | /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/ | Verlangen, Sehnsucht |
| disconnect Verb | /dɪskəˈnɛkt/ | trennen, unterbrechen |
Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst
| Wort | Bedeutung |
|---|---|
| figure out Verb | herausfinden |
| find out Verb | herausfinden, erfahren |
| get up Verb | aufstehen |
Sätze zum Wiederholen
Kurze, vollständige Sätze aus dem Video, die du im Alltag wiederverwenden kannst:
- I don't know what I'm living for.
- I don't feel connected to it.
- I don't want to follow a different path.
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Bedingungssätze if + Satz, will/would + Verb – eine Bedingung und ihre Folge | if it was real I would see |
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | I've spent · I've never thought · we've decided |
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | was forced · be worked · were forced |
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
Der Sprecher verwendet 50 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel don't, I'm, can't. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: unconditional /ˌʌnkənˈdɪʃənəl/, illusion /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/, equation /ɪˈkweɪ.ʒən/, selfish /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/, confusion /kənˈfjuːʒən/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: unconditional /ˌʌnkənˈdɪʃənəl/, adolescence /ˌædəˈlɛsəns/, alienate /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/, aspiration /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/, inconvenient /ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/
Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:
- /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): equation /ɪˈkweɪ.ʒən/, anyways /ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/, whammy /ˈ(h)wæmi/, quietly /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/
- Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: oftentimes /ˈɔf.ənˌtaɪmz/, anyways /ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/, accolade /ˈæk.əˌleɪd/, perceive /pɚˈsiv/, teenage /ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ/
- /æ/ — offener als „ä“: accolade /ˈæk.əˌleɪd/, adolescence /ˌædəˈlɛsəns/, aspiration /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/, trance /tɹæns/, whammy /ˈ(h)wæmi/
So übst du mit diesem Video
- Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
- Beginne mit 0,75-facher Geschwindigkeit, sprich Satz für Satz nach und wechsle zur normalen Geschwindigkeit, sobald es leichtfällt.
- Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie emptiness, oftentimes, overthink.
Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?
Shadowing ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Sprachlerntechnik, die ursprünglich für die professionelle Dolmetscherausbildung entwickelt und durch den Polyglotten Dr. Alexander Arguelles populär gemacht wurde. Die Methode ist einfach aber wirkungsvoll: Du hörst englisches Audio von Muttersprachlern und wiederholst es sofort laut — wie ein Schatten, der dem Sprecher mit nur 1–2 Sekunden Verzögerung folgt. Anders als passives Hören oder Grammatikübungen zwingt Shadowing dein Gehirn und deine Mundmuskulatur, gleichzeitig echte Sprachmuster zu verarbeiten und zu reproduzieren. Studien zeigen, dass es Aussprachegenauigkeit, Intonation, Rhythmus, verbundene Sprache, Hörverständnis und Sprechflüssigkeit signifikant verbessert — was es zu einer der effektivsten Methoden für die IELTS Speaking-Vorbereitung und reale englische Kommunikation macht.