The many prisons of life

[foreverfalling]

Life is one big prison. Prisons within prisons. I was walking in a park today and thought, what makes me freer than an animal caged in a zoo? Sure I can walk around the park, and even outside of it, or even to a different park. But ultimately, I'm limited to the places I can go to on Earth. There's no way for me to escape this place even if I wanted to. The planet itself is a prison.

I'm stuck in my role in society, as a slave labourer, giving up my time for the privilege of eating food and sleeping under shelter. If I don't follow their rules or act like one of them, I'll be punished. I'm a prisoner to other people.

I'm stuck in this body, that feels pain, needs constant maintenance, and will eventually get frail. No matter how hard I try to look after it, something or someone may take from it and damage it. There is no way to repair it or to get a new one. I'm a prisoner inside this body.

I'm stuck with all my thoughts and emotions. No matter how hard I try or reach out, I can not possibly express it all for someone else to understand. All the pain, trauma, idealisms, fantasies are mine alone. I'm a prisoner of the mind.

Everything is so pointless, I want to leave, but I am imprisoned in this prison by my instinct.

 

[jodes2]

Sorry you feel so trapped. I hope you find some release *hugs*

 

[hamvil]

Life is one big prison. Prisons within prisons. I was walking in a park today and thought, what makes me freer than an animal caged in a zoo? Sure I can walk around the park, and even outside of it, or even to a different park. But ultimately, I'm limited to the places I can go to on Earth. There's no way for me to escape this place even if I wanted to. The planet itself is a prison.

I'm stuck in my role in society, as a slave labourer, giving up my time for the privilege of eating food and sleeping under shelter. If I don't follow their rules or act like one of them, I'll be punished. I'm a prisoner to other people.

I'm stuck in this body, that feels pain, needs constant maintenance, and will eventually get frail. No matter how hard I try to look after it, something or someone may take from it and damage it. There is no way to repair it or to get a new one. I'm a prisoner inside this body.

I'm stuck with all my thoughts and emotions. No matter how hard I try or reach out, I can not possibly express it all for someone else to understand. All the pain, trauma, idealisms, fantasies are mine alone. I'm a prisoner of the mind.

Everything is so pointless, I want to leave, but I am imprisoned in this prison by my instinct.

Just wanted to congratulate you for this beautiful post. I read myself and my life in a way i never managed to put into words.

I am stuck with a job that is on the one hand safe and stable but it is also full of people that abuse me, mob be and put me down. All this to get a salary at the end of the month and to return home where I live an empty marriage and I just lay in the bed watching youtube. So I suffer the hell at work to enjoy depression at home.

I have troubles managing my emotions. I have social anxiety and never managed to keep a single friend. At the end I always push everybody away or a pick some big fights with them. I always want to say the last word and even now after losing all because of social media I am still creating fake accounts to be aggressive with strangers. Nobody knows that and I would like somebody to stop me.

This is alla pointless prison also for me.

 

[gimzero]

Others keep us here so if we can we must escape like the alkatraz who never find them as an example.

 

[FuneralCry]

I do think that being trapped in this human body can certainly be like a prison as there is no real relief from what we experience apart from permanently leaving this world. Our bodies can torture us with health problems with no limit as to how bad things can get. This world is prison like as we are forced here without choice, expected to endure lives filled with misery and it can be very difficult to ctb, the society makes it as hard for us to die as possible.

All of this is why I look forward to non existence, I strongly believe that there is nothing after this, and once we are gone we will be incapable of suffering. Existing certainly is so pointless and I see all of this as being unnecessary in the first place, there never was a need for me to be alive, we were all perfectly fine not existing until we were forced here.

 

[whitefeather]

"We are all born into captivity" Guy R McPherson PhD

 

[Lost Magic]

'We're all doing time.' Bo Lozoff

 

[freedompass]

Yup i definitely feel like I'm doing time. I liken my life between my own four walls to a comfy prison. Technically I'm free to walk out of the front door but why would I want to. The outside world is just another layer of prison. It's mostly solitary confinement tho hey I have WiFi. Imagine if we are stuck in an eternal reincarnation cycle. Not just life in prison, we are doomed to eternal slavery. I consider myself lucky to have avoided the hard labour aspect of the experience. But honestly. It's a joke…

 

[redeyepiranha]

I agree, I feel trapped with my thoughts and emotions, life is filled with pointless actions through days, wish I could get rid of my consciousness and go back to my lovely void

 

[avoid_slow_death]

These exact words are what I have been trying to express to myself in my mind past few weeks. Thank you for this. It was something of a relief to see my thoughts written down here by someone else. Let's me know it's not all me.

 

[thedaywillcome]

I feel traped in a body that has a genetic error.(Lrrn3)

Its a missing enhancer which causes a drastic dose reduction of this highly conserved gene. In female brains there is no probleme, but in male brains it causes neurobiological failure. This is called haploinsufficience. My brain has structural failure.

 

[AnxietyHangover]

Fantastic thread. Glad I came across it. It does feel like a prison indeed, since no one can help you, you are stuck doing your time. You know the only way to escape the prison. It's difficult and painful, but these are the ways of life.

 

[Mr2005]

We've the luxury of having too much time on our hands to think about such things

 

[Darkover]

these bodys machines shells whatever it is that you inhabit are no where near good enough their too fragile and delicate and easy to break and impossible to repair
they require a lot of maintenance to keep them functioning 100 percent, evolution sure did fuck us over, but here is to the future AI will have everything it needs to build a life worth living

 

[thedaywillcome]

these bodys machines shells whatever it is that you inhabit are no where near good enough their too fragile and delicate and easy to break and impossible to repair
they require a lot of maintenance to keep them functioning 100 percent, evolution sure did fuck us over, but here is to the future AI will have everything it needs to build a life worth living

Correct my father had a severe stroke. His brain is broken on one side. You cant repaire that. Not even in 100 years.

My brain is broken, too. Cause of this genetic error.(Lrrn3)