I don’t understand why people like living so much

[BlueButterfly111]

I never understood it, I personally have never felt overly attached to life, I actually have always felt like I didn't really belong here. It's just so bizarre to me seeing people cling to life so much.

It would be one thing if our quality of lives were better, but most people have to work a lot or face homelessness/ other things. Don't get me wrong, I've seen beautiful things in life, but none of them have made me feel overly attached to living in this world. I don't see how people stay on this Earth willingly for dozens of years, I will just go crazy if I have to stay here for like 80 years.

I'm only 22 and feel very weary physically and mentally, maybe I'm an old soul or something. Or maybe all of this is just because of the life I've lived, idk.

And then I just hate how people assume you're the same way as them. Like I just had someone tell me that I should be grateful for being alive another year, and I'm just like, I don't want to be alive. Hopefully I didn't come across as offensive to anyone, I just wanted to express my feelings where I can't anywhere else. Anyone else feel this way?

 

[SadRatQueen]

Sometimes I get glimpses, moments in time that I think, "Wow, life can be this fun?"
It tends to not last that long as reality starts to seep in and I'm back to where I always have been.

The 'light' was never for people like us. 'Normal' people can never truly understand our struggles.

 

[Alice.]

for a lot of people I think it's more of a fear of death rather than the love of life. you ultimately only get one chance at life, and when people can comprehend that it usually makes people want to live more, like for the fear of missing out or something.

but yea for some people i can't understand it, like when they're homeless and have nowhere to go, or people who are stuck in a dead end 9-5. then i would think it's time to go. but people are different and it's hard to understand other people for certain topics, such as this one.

 

[LukaParrot]

My opinion is when you have a objectives in life, it's something that keeps you trying as hard as it may gets. Having the right person by your side makes you even more stronger.

People give up on life when they fail, when see their dreams shattered, a very broken heart..... these are some ways that depression sneaks in your life and takes all your energy.

If I meet myself younger (20-30 yo), i would like to tell myself to try harder, to not close yourself in a shell, my main failure in life was love. Lonely really is a daily pain for me.

 

[ThatStateOfMind]

I think it's just a perspective thing. Besides, all of life is living for fleeting moments of happiness. Life sucks a lot of the time. Hell, life sucks most of the time. I think my perspective, currently, is to cherish the happy moments. Beyond that, I can't lie, I don't particularly enjoy life. I'm chugging along, trying to finish a degree and decide where to go from there.

 

[lnlybnny]

I think it's their brains that are wired "correctly" or something, whereas me for example feel like I don't fit in and don't belong. Most people find meaning here in this world and think that they belong, so life is just something quite natural to them I guess

 

[ShatteredSerenity]

I was one of those people. I really enjoyed my life before it was destroyed last year. I had a great career and I looked forward to climbing the ladder and eventually retiring. I looked forward to seeing my children continue to grow up, and spending time with my wife through old age. I was doing a number of activities I enjoyed. There were challenges that caused stress, but it was all things I could overcome. It felt great to be alive most of the time.

Now that I've lost all my reasons for living, life has become torture. I never in my wildest dreams expected to fall this far so quickly and unexpectedly, it's a living nightmare. I feel so sad constantly remembering everything I've lost.

The hard part is that people in my life still have great lives, so they don't understand the agony I'm going through. It's like I've crossed from one universe to another, from the haves to the have-nots.

 

[BlueButterfly111]

I was one of those people. I really enjoyed my life before it was destroyed last year. I had a great career and I looked forward to climbing the ladder and eventually retiring. I looked forward to seeing my children continue to grow up, and spending time with my wife through old age. I was doing a number of activities I enjoyed. There were challenges that caused stress, but it was all things I could overcome. It felt great to be alive most of the time.

Now that I've lost all my reasons for living, life has become torture. I never in my wildest dreams expected to fall this far so quickly and unexpectedly, it's a living nightmare. I feel so sad constantly remembering everything I've lost.

The hard part is that people in my life still have great lives, so they don't understand the agony I'm going through. It's like I've crossed from one universe to another, from the haves to the have-nots.

I've also experienced loss. I lost my boyfriend, my soulmate 6 months ago. He made me really happy, but even then I still cannot imagine clinging to life, even if he was still here. Idk, maybe my brain is wired differently from most people, I am on the spectrum so that would make since…

 

[crocune]

I've also experienced loss. I lost my boyfriend, my soulmate 6 months ago. He made me really happy, but even then I still cannot imagine clinging to life, even if he was still here. Idk, maybe my brain is wired differently from most people, I am on the spectrum so that would make since…

I've been a fuckup for the past decade. Never bothered me, I was happy, and content with who I was.

A few months ago my grandma passed away and now I've gone a full 180. Anxiety about the future, regrets about the past, the time and opportunities I've wasted, what and who I could have been, everything basically crashing down on me all at once. Feel lost and that ctb is an easier option than anything in front of me

 

[CogitoMori]

The people that want to live have people that support them in their endeavors rather than people that pretend to support them only to tear them down.

 

[FuneralCry]

I really understand, I've personally never wished to exist and never would do, I just don't have any interest in existing, I just don't see it as desirable to exist at all and I'd never wish to be conscious of anything at all. I find existence to be such a futile and unnecessary burden that I wish was never imposed, I just don't see myself as meant for any of this and the thought of suffering until old age is horrific to me, I'd never wish for that but rather I just want to permanently cease existing, I could personally just never see any value and benefit to existence and I find it tiring to exist as well, just simply existing is enough to make me feel tired.