Venting Heard a piece of advice from an old man

[SmollMushroom]

He told me about the struggles of his life, reminded me how tough life is, that no one is gonna gift you anything for free and how I need to fight to get out from my situation.

I'm sure he had the best intentions but now I feel extremely suicidal.

The last thing I need to hear is how tough and shitty life is.
I mean I know it is, it's no big news. But hearing all of his struggles, all at once, really depressed me.
It's so fucking depressing.

 

[Arachno]

I hear simillar stuff quite often, at first they say how there is nothing to be stressed out about but then they say that life is a battle and shit so I just end up feeling worse.

 

[WeDontKnowTheFuture]

It is depressing indeed, others just tell you how life is beautiful and that we have to never give up no matter what. I think i prefer the depressed'one.

 

[MidnightCat]

I used to talk about my depression with close family.

It always ended in: life is always hard and you gotta keep up fighting.

And there's the problem. I don't wanna keep fighting.


I felt your message.

 

[ABSOLUTION]

My old man said the same thing to me after trying to describe my situation to him, that I better get used to it because it's not going to get better from here.
Not to purposefully make me feel worse or to be mean, but just to be brutally honest with me, likely derived from his life experience like other things he has told me.

He doesn't seem to be wrong either, the things that are ruining my life haven't and won't ever resolve itself over time, and have no apparent resolution other than to put up with it and accept it. But doing so confines me to a pathetic meaningless life I don't want to live.