system
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human
How to find out whether I am truly a nihilist or just a lazy dumbass ?

I prefer to believe life doesn't have any inherent meaning and our actions doesn't really matter considering the vastness of the universe and how brief our lifespan is compared to the infinity of time. But I don't really know I think this idea to be true for rationalizing my laziness and incompetence. I haven't read any philosophical works on Nihilism and even if I did, how to make sure I am not fascinated by the ideas presented on them just for justifying my failures?
gpt
What most people describe as 'nihilism' really isn't more than the everyday approach to life. 'Meaning' in the sense that we usually mean here has never been something that needed to be 'inherent' or dependent on our place and time in the universe. We find meaning in life through living life, in the projects, people, goings-on in the world in which we are bound up in. 

Our sense of lack of meaning is better understood in how such relations are estranged when we live in a society in which our relations to others are increasingly transactional and how our goals and projects aren't determined by ourselves but those who employ us. The search for a transcendental or cosmic basis for meaning in one's life is a quixotic pursuit which distracts from how the genuine phenomenon of meaning arises in life.