Is Continuing to Live Like This Insane?

[Unwr!tten]

They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. I live every day over and over again hoping for different results when it's always the same, am I insane?

 

[Zegers]

or maybe we just expecting for the bus

 

[Forever Sleep]

I don't think it's impossible for things to change on their own. It seems unlikely though. It's all probability at the end of the day. If you want a certain thing in life, it seems logical to create a situation in which the probability of it happening are higher. Not so sure it's insanity to not believe that though. Some people believe in fate. That no matter what they do- things are fated to happen in their life.

If I'm brutally honest- and from a personal perspective, I think it has more to do with lazyness or fear rather than insanity. I feel like I KNOW what I would need to do to make significant changes in my life. I would need to get over my anxiety/ crushing lack of confidence in social situations. To do that though- I'd need to force myself into being in those situations more. Seeing as that frightens me, I'm simply too lazy to challenge myself to do that- so- things remain the same. I guess I'm not expecting for things to change unless I change them. It probably depends on what you want to change in your life as to just how much control you have over it. Still- just by posing the question, I would think you're proably not insane. Can someone be entirely insane and realise it? That kind of suggests self awareness which seems to me to be the opposite of madness.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

Life itself is insane especially when it comes to the fact that one doesn't want to go on living in this life because nothing changes or will ever change in the way they wish for. I myself would say I was too insane to think I could turn around my life although it was clear to me years ago that this most likely will fail. That's perhaps some very early forms of SI or so .... dunno.

 

[The anhedonic one]

Yes, absolutely. We are imprisoned in flesh prison bodies and trapped inside broken minds, yet find it incredibly difficult to escape because of survival instinct.
Yes, it's most definitely an insane situation.

 

[FuneralCry]

I just think in general, any hope usually just leads to more suffering as existing is incredibly unsatisfying and disappointing, it's certainly such a cruel world we exist in where people suffer all through no fault of their own.