The whole concept of not knowing what you’ve got until it’s gone. Remember that song you used to hate hearing and now 20 some years later, you’d wish we’d be back to music like it because music today is too artificial and AI-powered? Remember nearly a lot of things you criticized and now have a soft spot for because everything now has gone to shit?
Yeah, that hits hard. What sucks is that sometimes, you don’t know for certain if you’re experiencing the best of things. But once it passes you, give it 1 - 5 years, you’ll know it.
The worst part is isolation. I think most of us are suffering from lack of community
Childhood that’s gone in what feels like an instant before you had the chance to appreciate it, and by the time you do enjoy it after the fact, from memory, the moment is already long gone, no matter how hard you cling onto the memory, its already in the past, you have no time machine to go back and re-do that again.
It’s the fact that the easier options are bad choices.
It’s easier to sit around the house than it is to exercise. It’s easier to order pizza than it is to cook something. It’s easier to be ignorant than actually learn and change.
The easy choice should be the good one. Making a bad choice should take effort.
Maybe it’s how you look at it. In the moment it’s an easier choice. But in the long run one leads to health complications and harder to come back from.
I call it Immediate gratification. Doesnt mean the choice is easier: just less with thought, self love or intention.
i think stress is a bigger problem. That needs to be addressed more seriously especially in a capitalist hell scape. Eating/drinking to find comfort/self medicate is but a symptom of a bigger problem.
The monotony. Life has wonderful moments, and there is joy and love. There is also the constant grind. Buying groceries, cooking meals, doing laundry, cleaning. Things that we never thought of as children, but it takes so much time just to continue living and filling basic needs. That’s when you start to really appreciate the replicators in Star Trek. Sure at first it’s like “I could have takeout anytime”, but then you realize oh my god if I didn’t have to shop, get groceries, cook, put them away, move them home, the whole thing, we’d have so much more time.
What if you like doing those things? I don’t regard any of those things as a grind. I find them liberating and I hate it when I life gets in the way of me doing my chores.
I can’t say I enjoy those things, but you’re right, it’s far from a grind. Those tasks are a part of daily life, they need to be done so best crack on and get them done. Anyone who sees those things as an inconvenience or a hindrance to the extent it makes them hate life are not mature enough for the gift of life.
When you hit a certain age, you’ll wake up with a new pain and that will be your new normal. Then, your life will be nothing but physical and emotional pain. You’ll just have more of a threshold.
“Nothing but emotional pain”… It seems to me like you’re generalising a personal experience.
Sounds like you had a nice childhood and don’t like getting older?
For those of us who had bad childhoods, getting older is liberating and joyful. My life gets better and better every year and the worst years of my life were my youth.
Getting older and watching loved ones get older
Israel dictates american international policy and America seems to in turn dictate european international policy. Even when the opportunity arises to deviate from this, most politicians/entire governments decide they prefer to have someone else do their deciaion making for them.
Nothing truly sucks about life. We could literally not exist, but instead we do. Existing is the coolest fucking thing ever. I’m glad I exist. Nothing truly sucks about existing compared to what not existing would be like.
“It’s a wonder to be alive. If you don’t understand that, how can you search for anything deeper?” - Liu Cixin
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living in an open-air prison where escape feels almost impossible.
It’s so long. Like holy shit, I get the picture already. This is egregious.
You don’t like grinding for 80 years?
What would you prefer? To sit on your ass and do nothing for 80 years?
What would I prefer? Doing whatever the fuck I want for 80 years.
so you basically hate responsibilities. got it
Yes, is that a bad thing? You can load up on responsibility and live your life based on what others think you should be doing if you want. I will be living as free as possible.
Yes and no, depending on the definition.
Every time I think about my cats I get so envious.
It’s so unenjoyable for you you’d rather just die now?
Yeah, pretty much. I’m ready to be done any time now.
But what about pancakes? 😔
Seemin unability to truly live in the current moment. Always have to be thinking about the past or worrying about the future. With a decade of experience in meditation I’ve seen glimpses of what it could be like when you just are and everything is okay. It’s all just so fleeting.
Gestures broadly at everything
That it is pay to win like shitty mobile games.
Egoistic people. Too many just see their own needs, and I’m not talking about basic needs. They are stressed and drive recklessly, don’t think about others when making decisions and so on. And in the end, we all pay a higher price for insignificant or no benefit of individuals. Life would be way easier if we could just slow down and stop having all those unrealistic expectations about what should be and started appreciate what is.
And yes I know that the world is a shitshow right now. I’m not saying you should ignore that.
agree with you. egotism is run rampant. especially in regard to politics, lifestyle etc. everyone seems to think anyone who doesn’t reflect their immediate needs or views is evil and awful.
people simple can’t tolerate anyone being different than them, because it’s a challenge to their ego because it might mean they are wrong.
i remember when social media was fun and people celebrated differences, now they just tear each other apart over ever minor difference. i used to me allowed to do stuff and enjoy my life… now everything I do or don’t do is ‘problematic’ or ‘oppressive’. 10 years ago nobody cared what car I drove, now I get lectures/speeches about how ‘evil’ i am for not buying an EV and keeping my 10 year old ICE.
All of it. What doesn’t?
