Discussion What’s your opinion on life?

[AlreadyGone]

I hate it. Period.

 

[itsamadworld]

People are not to be trusted, and they are a-holes! Lol....

 

[Ashleyrodriguez]

Life is a true blessing if your health is good. Health is wealth. Unfortunately I don't have that.

 

[muffin222]

I wouldn't have opted for it if I'd had the choice before conception

 

[Green Destiny]

Honestly I prefer to not have been conceived and existed in the first place. Didn't ask for this hell of a fuckin' consciousness and I would rather go back into oblivion.

 

[Nnana]

Life is hell. A hard, pointless and painful journey to nowhere. There's a strong asymetry between good and bad,. Suffering is much worst than happiness is good, and most people cope with existence through delusions. The perpetuation of life by having kids is the greatest crime that exists.

 

[mediocre]

In my case it has been nothing but pain and misery for seemingly no purpose.

 

[Shinbu]

I feel life is like a labyrinth. The traps are the pleasures in life, and if you fall for them you get stuck in the maze, and eventually reality will choose how you die. If you are afraid of death then you are stuck in the maze, and reality will choose how you die. To get out of this labyrinth you have to suicide. Life has many ways to suffer from diseases, viruses, hunger, etc, and many ways to die that are not pleasant. A reality like this shouldn't exist, it's unnecessary. It's too bad, because life can be good, but the bad outweighs the good. I don't want to get old either.

 

[Notwinnernotawin]

If you have the resources to go through what the system puts you through and nobody has their nose on your life, it should be fine. Otherwise, it's just a waste of time when you could be busy not existing.

 

[Starseedchip]

Life just is. When you look at nature it has no rhyme or reason. I think life is random and inexplicable. When I think of it for what it truly is, I accept it. Theres a beauty to it. For the most part I dont find it enjoyable and its usually boring or unbearable. However it has its good moments at times. Ive become pretty indifferent to life.

 

[Mooshi]

Life is just full of misery and everything sucks. I wish I was never born.

 

[Cashewmilk]

I, for one, think that life can be a true blessing and an overall positive and enjoyful experience as long as you are born with the right genetics both physically and mentally.
It all comes down to that and to the environment you are raised in.
Sometimes i look at them rich kids from my university and i think how lucky they are: They were born on rich families (catholics for the most part, but hey, you can't have everything), they are intellectually superior than most people on our country which makes them elite students and in the future will have elite, high paid jobs, they have a good and healthy group of friends they enjoy being with and have fruitful and enjoyable relationships (from their perspective), and some of them, are very good looking. They all look very happy to me, as life is going according to their plans!
It's everything i would want for me, and i don't wish them nothing bad. They're not responsible for my failures and misfortunes.
So yeah, i think life can be a true gift should you have luck in how you turn up in this world.
If you are born with a defective mind or prone to have mental illnesses, if you are born with a physical defect or some sort of chronic condition or disease, or if you are born into an horrible and dysfunctional family you are better of dead, i'd say.
If i'd known in advance that by my 22nd birthday i would be joining a suicide website and planning to kill myself because of a series of failures and unfortunate life circumstances than i would definately wish i'd never been born, that's for sure.
Just my opinion, though.

I agree, even though part of me wouldn't really want that life, I'm sure if I wasn't mentally ill or experienced what I have already, I would want it. I made a thread called "Do you know someone who's perfect?" Your description pretty much describes the person I was talking about. That kind of life is what everybody wants. And I agree, I think life can be amazing if you're mentally and physically well and wealthy. I love your comment!



Lol I thought this was a new thread I hadn't seen before, I was about to post and was reading the comments so far, I saw one I totally agreed with and tried to react, but I couldn't. Because it was mine!

I'll say it again. Life is too hard for me. Literally everyone else is able to do the basic life accomplishments. But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't do it. I failed highschool in 10th/9th grade (I was a year behind because I failed grade 9 completely due to my hospitalization and suicide attempt). So I dropped out in my 3rd year in highschool, we usually have 5 years of hs here. But I struggled in school since kindergarten, in every grade I failed in elementary but they weren't allowed to hold us back, I wasn't horrible but I did get C- and D grades, they thought I was normal and allowed me to go on to the next grade. I struggled academically and socially and physically in gym class, I can feel that I'm severely mentally challenged. I'm not at retardation level, but I would call myself high functioning and intellectually challenged. I think my IQ is probably low, I've done an IQ test online but I don't think I did it properly, I did it in 2012 when I was like 24, I got 118, but it's probably actually a lot lower.

I barely got a B in school. I can't even imagine what university is like, I don't think I could ever understand or accomplish anything academically, I can't imagine going to school and getting a degree, it's completely foreign to me and scary. I freeze on tests, I'm so scared of tests because I have never passed a test in my life. I did get 100% on my driving test the first one you do on the computer and pick answers, I studied hard and did hundreds of practice tests online... but at school they don't give practice tests... clearly I can't do conventional school, I need a different way of learning and it probably doesn't exist yet, at least in my country.

I barely had a job, I just couldn't do the work, it was too hard, even fast food and customer service, it was too fast paced and high pressure. I've always been so confused about simple life concepts. I never got my driver's license because driving was too hard, my brain couldn't handle it, it was too much. Too many things to remember, I never made it far enough to take the drivers test, I'd probably never pass it. After that my driving phobia just got worse, now I'm terrified of driving, it's simply too difficult for me. I am just so dumb, my mom is disgusted by it because so many "idiots and stupid peoples" get things done so easily, yet "here you are you can't do anything, it's so shameful and embarrassing". She constantly verbally abuses me and shames me for my learning disabilities. I never transitioned properly into adulthood, I still function like a teenager. Nowadays my health is failing, life is even harder now. It's no surprise I failed dozens of CTB attempts. I'm a real idiot, I'm soo slow. I was worried about the rule here about being intellectually disabled and not allowed, I was thinking if that was me... but I really wanted to join I feel like I can talk about anything and it's super helpful.

 

[Apathy79]

I think this life is one in a stream of lives where the goal is ultimately to transcend it through enlightenment, but in the meantime to improve karma. Past lives determine where we start this life, and our decisions here set us up one way or the other for the next. It seems purgatorial in that there is enormous potential to go both ways and karma seems to dictate that everyone is exactly where they need to be at all times. Love seems to be the primary avenue to improvement, and the ability to be loving is constantly tested. I suspect each life has a primary purpose to be discovered and lived, and particular pitfalls to avoid or deal with. There is also negative karma from previous lives that just needs to be endured until whatever was inflicted on others then is lived through. I also suspect the death of this particular incarnation isn't of great significance; that we'll just reincarnate into new circumstances where the same unresolved issues will play themselves out in slightly different ways until they are overcome.

On a related side note, I find myself feeling sorry for mass murderers and the like who commit suicide after, thinking it's an escape, because I suspect they've just doomed themselves to multiple hellish lifetimes which in the worst cases could take millennia to rectify for one brief stint of madness, and through all of it the chances of falling again are astronomical, such that the spiral may never end, and with each new incarnation they'll have no idea why they've been dealt such bad cards again and think it's unfair.

 

[Epsilon0]

Life... no, sorry, I got nothing.

 

[DoodleBug]

In a pseudo scientific explanation of an absolute laic It is a result of billions of years of randomized trial and error conducted en masse by the accumulation of different planetary forces.

In a saddening pseudo philosophical explanation of a mind in late stages of clinical depression [i.e. still me, lmao] it is being subjugated to meaningless, endless entropy to which nonconscious beings are most likely ignorant as they exist only to abide to their instinct. Conscious beings, on the other hand, tend to wrestle with the very idea of being alive by trying to either distract themselves from the ultimate question, or overthink it.

In overall: It blows hard, but on rarest, fleeting occasions it doesn't until it mercilessly ends for a new, fresh one taking its place.

 

[Blue Starz]

I view people as more of the problem than life itself.

Definitely many people who make reality twisted, cruel, & terrifying who are either very weak & seek temporary fleeting power by hurting innocent others, or pure diabolical evil working through incredibly selfish people.

Only some human souls have enough goodness (not perfect, but decent) in this fallen world ruled often by the demonic... that is why i feel exhausted yet know i should continue to call upon the light of God to finish my spiritual journey... it's very difficult either way...

 

[Broken Chimera]

Life is hell. And we come here to suffer and torture each other. Then people came up with religions to try to make sense out of all of it. I'll take the made up Christian hell over this mess called life. There's no reason for life other than suffering.

On a related side note, I find myself feeling sorry for mass murderers and the like who commit suicide after, thinking it's an escape, because I suspect they've just doomed themselves to multiple hellish lifetimes which in the worst cases could take millennia to rectify for one brief stint of madness, and through all of it the chances of falling again are astronomical, such that the spiral may never end, and with each new incarnation they'll have no idea why they've been dealt such bad cards again and think it's unfair.

I used to believe that. But think about it, if reincarnation is real and we come back every time after "failing" but lose our memories, how do we know what we did to deserve it? How can you learn from something you don't remember? For all we know whoever runs that system can lie and said a person did something and then torture them for it even though they're innocent. I don't wanna derail the thread, I just wanted to give my opinion on it.

 

[Worthless_nobody]

I think life is a pointless endeavor..a means to and end. We live, we work, we die. Life can be a great blessing for some but the biggest curse for others.

 

[Skylight]

I think it can be a beautiful thing for some people, and for others hell.

 

[Apathy79]

I used to believe that. But think about it, if reincarnation is real and we come back every time after "failing" but lose our memories, how do we know what we did to deserve it? How can you learn from something you don't remember? For all we know whoever runs that system can lie and said a person did something and then torture them for it even though they're innocent. I don't wanna derail the thread, I just wanted to give my opinion on it.

You don't know what you did, although you could easily intuit it based on what happens to you. My basic rule of thumb is whatever I did to others then is what others are doing to me now. The leader consumed by negative human traits like lies and torture is a handy archetype to avoid self-responsibility but I doubt it has any basis in reality. I think of it more as a field, where the sum total of everything I've ever done or thought across all lives results in being exactly where I am right now with my own unique set of problems to solve, which will persist until they're dealt with, whether in this body or not. Every positive/negative decision by you, me and everyone else shifts our relative positions in the field, and the options available. Choosing love and non-attachment consistently enough appears to open the doorway to the realisation that we're one with the field itself, not just participants subject to it, and the cycle ends. All this time I thought I was the main character in a progressive string of movies and it turned out I was the screen. But while I believe I'm the star, karma runs the show.

 

[ohhgeeitsme]

Life is different for everyone. It can be a blessing for some, and and absolute hell for others. My life is hell. It wasn't always, but has been for a decade now and is much more likely to only get worse. I only say more likely because I cannot predict the future. Maybe in 10 years, new medicine and technology will create a cure for mental illness. Maybe I'll somehow come across the opportunity for a career path that will bring me purpose and financial stability. It could happen. The chances are low but either way, I'm simply far too exhausted to wait it out much longer. I think life, overall, is a chaotic violent, hellish thing. From the universe as a whole. The big bang itself was a violent event. All the way down to the atom. Some of us are just lucky enough to be able to remain relatively blind to it and have lives that are enjoyable and worth living and not simply just an existence of survival.

 

[Genetics]

Short, painful, and often pointless. Good thing it doesn't last forever ....

LOL not short enough.

 

[Deathbydemo]

Life is a struggle for sure but we're here and have to make the best of it. I really believe that there are so many beautiful days still ahead of us, so many reasons to keep fighting through the hard days and ultimately the only person who can do it is yourself. While I realise that sounds like a bullshit cliche and a rather pro-life statement, it's just how I feel in the moment. I realise also that other people have things that aren't so easily bounced back from and I fully respect that.

 

[Overnoutofhere]

I don't live, I just exist, I am not thriving I am surviving. No purpose, empty, floating in a dark abyss.

 

[Saga]

life is just so shitty you live day by day without a purpose wondering if your ready to go and leave everything behind at the same time waiting for the end until its all over im kinda liking the pandemic rn...i wish i could get the virus and end up not surviving i dont want to see my family because they're the sole reason for me being fucked in the head

 

[AtleastMyKdWontBe0]

I think us humans are just animals that are alive because of our planet happened to have the right conditions and we happened to evolve to what we are. I don't understand why life is seen as so sacred, especially human life, because alot of us (including me) are horrible people and the world would probably be better off without us.

 

[maka]

It's only nice for God's favorites and the rest of us have to sit here and suffer while the privileged tell us "life's not always fair."

 

[Saga]

It's only nice for God's favorites and the rest of us have to sit here and suffer while the privileged tell us "life's not always fair."

i guess god is really a dick head

 

[JohnUK]

Shit. It's not worth living anymore. Pointless life is. Especially in what people call "a new world we live in"

 

[issyishere]

get busy living or get busy dying