Is life meant to wear us down until we break?

[Weebster]

The stuff I used to handle is becoming increasingly difficult. My resilience is fading and it's scary to me.

 

[FuneralCry]

The way I see it, this life is just meaningless suffering. We live in a world where so much can potentially go wrong and there is no limit as to how bad things can get. That is just the way that life is, to me life is so pointless and unnecessary. I want to escape from my pain and sleep forever.

 

[Eternity]

Not for the normies. Only for the mentally ill, if you don't recover.

 

[watchingthewheels]

A "war of attrition", in a way, it sometimes feels like that. Or, a game of Tetris, that just gets faster and faster and faster until there's no way you can arrange all those blocks in time
.

 

[Tristan]

Im so broken that I dont even know how I am still standing up sometimes.

 

[whatevs]

There are always moments (which can extend for months or years) in which you need to stop and experience sadness, defeat, anxiety, whatever it is. You won't be successfully coping all the time.

 

[hankbank3928]

It's a good question. I definitely feel the older I get, the more worn down I am…

 

[symphony]

The only "goal" of life is the survival of the species. Our role in that as individuals is to make babies, help them survive until they can make grandbabies, and help others around us to do the same. Beyond that, we have no real biological utility. Doesn't matter if you wear down in the end, as long as you still reproduce. Without a capacity for physical and mental pain, we'd be unable to avoid dangers and destroy ourselves. But then, of course, we get trapped in all this suffering becomes quite the cruel joke. I'm not sure I like biology's sense of humor anymore.

 

[Fadeawaaaay]

We are animals that need to be culled from the herd.

 

[Weebster]

A "war of attrition", in a way, it sometimes feels like that. Or, a game of Tetris, that just gets faster and faster and faster until there's no way you can arrange all those blocks in time

.

Yeah that's life in a nutshell. It's so perfect

There are always moments (which can extend for months or years) in which you need to stop and experience sadness, defeat, anxiety, whatever it is. You won't be successfully coping all the time.

Why is it necessary? For personal growth?

 

[BrokenBliss]

Why is it necessary? For personal growth?

Well, it's necessary if you want to stay functional.

 

[Weebster]

Well, it's necessary if you want to stay functional.

Functional as in staying alive? If coping doesn't always work, then how are those periodic slumps not signs of dysfunction?

 

[BrokenBliss]

Functional as in staying alive? If coping doesn't always work, then how are those periodic slumps not signs of dysfunction?

No, functional as in functional. Just staying alive is not the same thing. That is merely existing, which for me is not enough. Nor for most of us, I imagine, or we wouldn't be here in the first place.

 

[Lost Magic]

it sure does seem that way. Society is fabricated in a way that is divisive and greedy. It is starting to feel more like the Matrix now than ever.

 

[Chiisai]

The stuff I used to handle is becoming increasingly difficult. My resilience is fading and it's scary to me.

Growing up in a religious household, I have always been seeing life as a "test" of kindness and resiliency. Now, im just tired. Maybe this is how far I can go and the end of my test.

 

[plough22]

The stuff I used to handle is becoming increasingly difficult. My resilience is fading and it's scary to me.

I think life is shot for stop and great for others, the luck of with them. Better to be born lucky than born rich. We must keep going.

 

[ClownMe]

In a sense, yes, we're pretty much just slaves to society and the government when you break it down.

 

[Buddha.e.c]

Its been proven is history, Life for (some) humans is suffering and for "others" its happiness & or wealth.

 

[BrokenBliss]

Growing up in a religious household, I have always been seeing life as a "test" of kindness and resiliency. Now, im just tired. Maybe this is how far I can go and the end of my test.

Another thing we're told is that God never gives us more than we can handle... I've come to believe that is meaningless tripe we say to make ourselves feel better during senseless tragedy and unbearable circumstance.

 

[Chiisai]

Another thing we're told is that God never gives us more than we can handle... I've come to believe that is meaningless tripe we say to make ourselves feel better during senseless tragedy and unbearable circumstance.

You have a point. But maybe it also means that we can handle death.

 

[markimobzzdeasui]

Mine definitely did. It kept on breaking me in various ways even when I couldn't handle it and year after year, I lost parts of myself which were absolutely necessary to survive in this world. Now I am like a dead spirit living inside this decaying body,yet life won't kill me and I have to do it myself.

 

[BrokenBliss]

Mine definitely did. It kept on breaking me in various ways even when I couldn't handle it and year after year, I lost parts of myself which were absolutely necessary to survive in this world. Now I am like a dead spirit living inside this decaying body,yet life won't kill me and I have to do it myself.

Ditto to all of that.