Do you think you deserve your suffering, or do you think you deserve happiness?

[ArnoldG]

I guess it comes down to self-esteem

 

[pole]

i just feel like we have written destinies, things that happen to us are inevitable, or that happen and happened to me honestly. i genuinly think i was just destined to feel sad, like im cursed or something. i dont believe most of the people here deserve their suffering and the trauma they've gone to, its destroyed them and no one deserves that.

 

[First loss]

We do not really deserve or not deserve anything in my opinion. It is just the way it is.

 

[LifeOver]

Everyone in the world deserves happiness. That is entirely possible with the world's resources, but unfortunately humans are selfish beings. Some people hog all the wealth/happiness while others are left to suffer.

 

[CareOfCell44]

Its doesn't matter what you think you deserve, or more disheartening, what you actually deserve. Someone else will always determine what you deserve, similar to a wage.
I personally believe everyone deserves better, and as @LifeOver said, they're are enough natural resources to alleviate nearly all material suffering. Its just a matter of where and how they are allocated.

 

[JoeFailure]

Happiness. But I'm delusional enough to believe everyone deserves that. In this world, anyway.

 

[mattwitt]

I deserve all of my sufferings and I deserve to suffer more and I deserve to die !

 

[seekingoblivion]

I "deserve" neither. Especially not the suffering.

 

[DreamCatcher]

Doesn't matter if someone deserves good or bad, the universe isn't fair.

I think I was a good person in this life and made the world a little better than I found it. So theoretically I deserved a little happiness, but after decades of waiting it never came.

Maybe a future or past existence will give me the peace that is denied here. But I gave up hope on finding fairness in this place.

 

[k75]

I agree about the self-esteem. I think that has a lot to do with it.

If we are looking at it like a punishment situation, I think I deserve happiness. I haven't ever done anything that would warrant this level of awful existence. I've probably hurt people because everyone hurts someone, but I've never killed anyone I've never ruined anyone's life. I tried so hard to be a good mom. I've never done anything that made a lasting negative effect on the world... So I don't think that I deserve to be not happy.

 

[21Neberg]

I think I deserve the mental pain I've got. I'm a bad person, after all. The world will be better off without me and the pain will drive me to end it.

 

[Baskol1]

I think i deserve happiness, but its hard to be happy when youre autistic. Many autists are depressed.

 

[LogicalConclusion]

Honestly I vacillate between the two. I have periods of intense self-loathing and feel like I just deserve to suffer suffer suffer, then other times I'm pissed off about how I've been treated and feel like I've paid my fucking dues and people should fuck off. Just depends on the day and general circumstances.

 

[Robbyna]

I think we all deserve happiness. For some reason we haven't figured out how to allow that for everyone. It may sound dumb, but I'm hopeful there is another plain of existence where we can all be happy.

 

[TheFinalCountdown]

The word "deserve" doesn't mean anything to me at all anymore

 

[andy69]

I don't know if I deserve it, but I get punished a lot. I try to do the right thing and help people, but for some reason I am always made out to be the bad guy. I'm sick of always being the bad guy. Maybe when I die, people will be happy.