In your opinion, do you think that life can get better?

[wistfulness]

Life has been throwing awful things my way for years, so I wanted to see what you guys think…

 

[BasilThePlant]

I believe that eventually, yes, life does get better. But it may become too painful to wait for that day to come, because it can vary from a month to multiple years, that it would be more appealing in the moment to ctb, or quit hoping. It's sort of like a lottery ticket, if you had unlimited money. You would eventually win, but it may take so long that you would rather not keep playing even though you will win at some point. I hope your life gets better soon, wishing you luck in life's imaginary lottery. <3

 

[kyhoti]

My life over the past five decades has been a shit-show roller-coaster. Sometimes good, occassionally fantastic. Sometimes neck deep in dooky. Most times when I really knuckled up, it was pretty o.k. This last stretch has been almost unbearably crappy.

It matters not, I have my ticket. Barring a miracle, my bus will be pulling into the station soon.

 

[Steff1337]

From my lifelong experience, life for me unfortunately cannot get better.

 

[Degen]

Depends, too many variables.
Some of it has to do with managing your own expectations and letting go of unrealistic ideals if you can't reasonably reach it.

 

[ramon]

Life can improve all you want, but it's not crazy to think that such improvements are pointless if you didn't enjoy them at adequate stages of your life.

 

[wistfulness]

I believe that eventually, yes, life does get better. But it may become too painful to wait for that day to come, because it can vary from a month to multiple years, that it would be more appealing in the moment to ctb, or quit hoping. It's sort of like a lottery ticket, if you had unlimited money. You would eventually win, but it may take so long that you would rather not keep playing even though you will win at some point. I hope your life gets better soon, wishing you luck in life's imaginary lottery. <3

I really appreciate the analogy, I agree completely. I wish you all the best as well

My life over the past five decades has been a shit-show roller-coaster. Sometimes good, occassionally fantastic. Sometimes neck deep in dooky. Most times when I really knuckled up, it was pretty o.k. This last stretch has been almost unbearably crappy.

It matters not, I have my ticket. Barring a miracle, my bus will be pulling into the station soon.

I'm sorry to hear that :( I wish you all the best

 

[Draconis]

No therefore i CBT before it get worse and i get weaker and more out of shape..or get cancer or something...

 

[wistfulness]

Life can improve all you want, but it's not crazy to think that such improvements are pointless if you didn't enjoy them at adequate stages of your life.

Very true! Thank you :)

No therefore i CBT before it get worse and i get weaker and more out of shape..or get cancer or something...

Hopefully that won't happen to you…but yeah, cancer's the worst. Took my mother and my godmother's terminally ill with it. Wouldn't wish that on anybody.

 

[outrider567]

Not mine

 

[DeathSleep]

No, I don't think life can get better for me. I can see it getting worse though. A lot worse. Maybe for some it does though.

 

[Soupster]

From where I sit life certain can get better. Weirder things have happened. That said, i cannot fathom any improvements in my life that would outweigh the factors that have led me to chose to ctb.

if i won the lottery and never had to work again, had a medical breakthrough treatment that cured my chronic intolerable pain without side effects, restored my full mobility, cured my mental illnesses, and somehow fixed my marriage to be a relationship again instead of being roommates I still don't think I'd be happy.

Is that selfish? Probably. But I honestly cannot conceive of an improvement of life getting better that would restore my will to live beyond my damn SI.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

Yes, life can get better but often it doesn't get better rather worse for a majority for many different reasons.

 

[BecomingTired]

I don't know. I have no idea, and that feeling of uncertainty is only weighing on my mind as I already seen how far it can go. I only have some control over my life, the rest of it is up to chance.

 

[N33dT0D13]

I feel hopeless, its my personality, who I am, it feels hopeless, I wanna die

 

[Forever Sleep]

It can. Doesn't necessarily mean it will- no matter how much work you put in. Some things in life can't be fixed which means we have to learn to live with them but, we may not want to.

 

[HarryCobean]

As a strictly theoretical thing, yes. Practically, I don't think so.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

No life can't get better.

All animals get Old . while aging the body , cells and brain of an Animal like a human decays more every day . It gets worse every day especially after age 40 .

No matter the age Every day a human remains alive they are taking risks of something horrible happening

And there is no objective reason to take such risks.

We all will die anyway. Why should I continue working so hard , suffering just to continue existing in this evil oppressive prison hell, waiting for extreme pain and torture and or old age to get me. Why prolong the suffering if we are all going to get very old and die anyway? There is no objective reason

 

[Lady Laudanum]

It depends on your individual circumstances. It's hard to give a definitive answer in general.

 

[enduringwinter]

Yes just not mine

 

[hereornot]

I agree @ramon , some things could improve but that doesn't mean there would be enough time to enjoy them.

Every day lost, which turns into months, then years... ends up being too late.

 

[deathtakeme]

For some, it depends on what your life has been so far.
I for one have been isolating for so long time has stood still for me and I missed out on important stages of my life. I can't really think that life will get better when i have lost all control over it.

 

[lizzywizzy09]

No. And don't trust anyone who treats this as an indisputable fact.

 

[sserafim]

No and life can always get worse

 

[GetReadyy]

Sometimes it feels easy to give up. The important thing is to achieve the difficult. Of course, if you have the strength left to succeed

 

[chester]

Life can get better. I know mine can. I can get a better job, I can win the lottery, etc. None of it will be good enough though.

 

[Z-A]

Only if it's in your power and if there are opportunities to do so. Many things are not fixable or irreversible, such as chronic illness and many other things. There are better days sometimes but that until it's all bad again. Generally, of course life can get better, it's obvious. But that's not possible for everyone.

 

[SoulWhisperer]

I firmly believe that SOME lives can get better. What happens in the future can't be predicted, we can simply perform actions that could increase the likelihood of good things happening but we can't have the certainty of anything happening in life to the fullest.

I believe that the cases are split between people's lives that can improve and be improved and those who will not or simply physically cannot (like people with terminal illnesses for example). Yes, miracles can happen and all of that but it's not always guaranteed.

I also believe that it is never game over until you stop trying in life. That's more of a fact to me than an opinion, because even the best life ever can be ruined if one stops caring about anything and doing anything for it. While at the same time your life is not over until you stop trying, even if you keep failing as long as you are alive you can physically try.

Some lives get better, some never do. But ultimately the choice if whether to CTB or not is personal and shouldn't be judged in my opinion, as someone here said before: pain and success are relative. Some people can endure stuff others can't. Some can easily solve something and others will be hopeless in front of the same obstacle.

There is no set formula on what to do with the issues life throws in front of you and everyone has to deal with what they have, making absolute statement is of no use because each of us works differently.

That's how I view it at least.

 

[FuneralCry]

Personally I just don't believe existence to be a desirable state in the first place. The only better for me lies in never existing again, existence causes me nothing but suffering and I find it such a torturous and cruel burden to exist. I just don't see anything appealing about suffering in this existence for decades longer just to be tormented dying in agony from old age especially as there is no limit as to how much one can suffer in this existence that was always so futile to me.

 

[Alessio]

By now I have given up hoping that my life will get better