thoughts on negative outlooks

Abhinav prompted me to write about nihilism. The reason for this is likely because I end up having an "optimistic" outlook towards most things. I'm an unusually cheerful fella.What I know about nihilism came from the second-hand casual use of the word, rather than what it actually meant as a philosophical position.I initially predicted that I'd look up nihilism and realize that my impressions of it would be completely wrong and that there would be some value to it. Unfortunately, that is not the case. As a philosophical position, I strain to see how it's not at least a little garbage.1I will extend this disrespect to other positions adjacent to them: blanket pessimism, cynicism, "everything sucks," etc. Among them nihilism is perhaps the least bad. At least I don't find the core premise disagreeable.Nihilism, which from my understanding most commonly refers to existential nihilism, is the rejection of a meaning to life. Okay? Yeah? So?There was probably a time where I might have been…