Randy Blythe may be the wisest of us all: “When I get all weird and full of existential angst, I try and put things in a broader perspective”
The most recent episode of Dean Delray’s “Let There Be Talk” podcast featured an interview with Randy Blythe, the frontman of Lamb of God. Randy made this statement in response to the reality that a lot of individuals nowadays worry about their future, employment opportunities, and the state of the world, which causes existential distress and a sense of powerlessness, as per Blabbermouth.
When I get all weird and full of existential angst, I try and put things in a broader perspective. And it’s hard right now ’cause everything’s so fucking negative. But it’s, like. I’m getting ready to turn 55. A couple hundred years ago we would be old. So we’re doing all right, man. And then the other thing is I’m not in any hurry to depart this planet. I’m enjoying myself. I love being here, but I’ve had a good life, and eventually, and from a cosmic scale, in one billion years — every billion years, the sun gets 10% hotter. This is true. Science tells us. And eventually it will supernova and it will swallow the earth. And I think that’s about five to six billion years. But within one billion years, the sun will have gotten hot enough so that the oceans will boil. So our planet is going to die within a billion years.
People are, like, ‘Why are you fucking with space? We’ve got problems to fix here.’ Well, if the future of humanity wants to continue, we do have to leave this place eventually. But I think about that — okay, this planet we have, everything I know is going to die. And that puts some perspective for me, and it reminds me that I’m just a tiny little insignificant speck. Because everything you see you’re viewing through the filter of your own existence, and it’s really easy to get lost up [in your head] and I think become too convinced of your own importance. Like I said, I’m in no hurry to die, but I’m just another piece of the bigger whole. So that’s on my good days, when I look at it the hippie-dippy, cosmic sort of way. [Laughs]
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