Discussion Is life really worth sticking around for?

[dust-in-the-wind]

I'm 55 years old and the truth is it is an endless cycle. Things can be good for a while, then fall apart, then good again ect. That is how life works. Pain and pleasure.

 

[Dejected 55]

I'm 55 years old and the truth is it is an endless cycle. Things can be good for a while, then fall apart, then good again ect. That is how life works. Pain and pleasure.

I think my 55 years must have been different than yours. I seem to get all the pain with none of the pleasure, If I at least got some pleasure sometimes, then the pain might be tolerable.

 

[DeathIsJustAJourney]

It depends really,like if you have anything still left to live for,like in my situation every 1 of my friends is dead,all the family I loved is gone,I don't have any kind of decent future realistically and I've lived my life and am old now so in my view taking time to pop off on the final journey is worth it instead of living a worthless life any longer,but if I did have family around I still loved and friends who I cared about and a decent looking future then I'd stick around for it,so it's down to a person's reasons for being here really I guess,if you still have fam you love well you wouldn't want them hurting through your death would you? So you have to write out a positive & negative chart,all the reasons to live vs the reasons not to live and see which outweighs the other,I did this and had 2 positives against 18 negatives so the choice is obvious,only reason am still here is cos I'm being surveillanced everywhere I go and in my home too so I have to get remarkably crafty about it to be successful as will not try if there is the remotest chance I'll be stopped and fail which is pretty infuriating considering it's my life to do with as I please.

 

[glitterycheese]

People always say that things will get better but why wait and see ? When chances are they do and then something else comes along and makes things worse again?
It's an endless cycle.

i'm still trying to find that answer, it isn't. no matter how many people you have that do care about you. sometimes you know when your time is up.

 

[dust-in-the-wind]

I think my 55 years must have been different than yours. I seem to get all the pain with none of the pleasure, If I at least got some pleasure sometimes, then the pain might be tolerable.

I'm so sorry to hear this. Life can be so cruel and unfair for some. My post is a generalization of how it is for most people. I wish you peace.

 

[Dongle]

Genuinely hard to say for certain. I feel like even when things in my life were seemingly decent it still just felt meaningless and I still don't understand what, when, or why I'm supposed to feel anything more than this.

 

[the_etherealmuse]

People always say that things will get better but why wait and see ? When chances are they do and then something else comes along and makes things worse again?
It's a endless cycle.

It depends. It depends on your circumstances and your expectations. Nothing is preordained.
Could you be with afflicted with physical and/or mental illness? Yes. Could you recover from said ailments? Also yes.

Will you experience physical and emotional pain, suffering, grief, loss, exhaustion, hopelessness and anxiety? Since they're inevitable, I'd say most likely.

Could you become a victim to rape, sexual assault, abuse, trafficking, mutilation, violence, war, carnage? Maybe, the world is rampant with such crimes. Will you get justice and closure? Probably not, considering the legal system and corruption.

Could you lose financial security and be reduced to eating one meal a day, sleeping on someone else's couch, working multiple jobs and yet barely scrounging up enough money to survive? Yes. Could you also live a comfortable life of relative financial stability? Yes. Will money buy you everything you desire? To some extent, perhaps.

Will you still have to work everyday for decades until your bones crumble under the weight of your skin? Most likely, unless you're extremely wealthy.
Will you ever find meaning and directive in this repetitive, cyclical life? Perhaps, but it'll be transient.

Will the environment continue to degrade, and war and crime continue to ravage this world? Indubitably, yes.

It's really a matter of weighing the good and the bad. You might learn to tolerate and endure the bad, and appreciate and revel in the good. Or you might not.
Personally, I'd rather not. My issues with life aren't circumstantial, but rather existential.

 

[Dejected 55]

I'm so sorry to hear this. Life can be so cruel and unfair for some. My post is a generalization of how it is for most people. I wish you peace.

No worries. I think I was in a particularly moody mood at the time. Not that I'm feeling wonderful now, but I see how my short post might have read differently than I intended.

 

[rs929]

Honestly I don't expect to be super happy. I just want to be out of constant suffering.
A meaningless life full of apathy can be tolerated, at least just out of curiosity for what will happen.
What I can't tolerate is the idea of suffering for 40+ years. That would be not worth staying around for.
Am I sure it's not going to get better? I really don't know. I guess I'll try to stick and find out.
In the grand scheme of things, a human life is a really short, fleeting period of time anyway.