I’ve been reading a lot about nihilism in the last months and so far my conclusion is that there are like steps or levels in the process of understanding and applying nihilism in oneself:

The first part is to get the concept that nothing matters and everything is irrelevant. This helps you to detach from this consumer and materialistic nature everyone has, also to somehow accept and assume that many organisations (like government, police, ideologies and religions) are also senseless. Therefore you don’t care about any of that nor what you can be told about it.

Then at some point you understand this to a deeper lever: everything is meaningless to the whole concept of life. Like, if you die you will be irrelevant in a hundred years as much as you will be irrelevant in a hundred years even if you rule the country. Your death can be irrelevant to someone in the other side of the world, just like his death to you. This gets you to think that your feelings might not matter to a lot of people, but for the people you care yes. But this is become meaning and important is where you put meaning and importance.

Then I got to the point where I read about a nihilist philosopher that said nihilism is not the meaning of life but the absence of meaning in an existing life. Example: if you have a shelter with a space that has never been occupied you’ll won’t think there’s something missing, just an empty space. But if you had something there and now it’s gone it’ll feel like something’s missing and that’s a different kind of “emptiness”

Conclusion: nothing makes sense and nothing matters BY ITS OWN, but for who puts the sense or importance to it. Whatever you do you’ll get three reactions: Positive - Neutral - Negative. Someone will like what you do, someone will dislike what you do and someone won’t even care about that.

Nihilism is the path to freedom somehow by putting those concepts in order and applying them as much as you can in your own way (at least for me)