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[Affray]

I too have taken a good long look in to the future that I see adding up in front of me, and it is a pretty grim shit filled roller coaster ride that probably ends in an explosion or a brick wall. The trick is to not fret over what may be and do everything within your power to sway that dark future from it's moronic course. 

 

Realistically if you look far enough in to the future or deep enough in to any subject you are going to see a whole lot of terrible things and get a pretty hefty case of the gloom.

[Bestmand902]

I think I understand. I can't change the future now, but the important thing is to at least try and do something that'll help in some way and maybe the future won't seem so bad. 

 

Honestly, I just get these surprising amount of cynicism when I see something that upsets me and it makes me just think that nothing is worth fighting for and I should just give up now, and I get very overdramatic. 

Something that kinda helped me when I was going through a mood like that was when I read a book called "Doomwar" where The Black Panther and Dr. Doom are at war because Dr. Doom invaded his country and stole a really powerful macguffin that was a big part of his plan, and Doctor Doom's whole schtick is "The world would be better if it were a dictatorship under me". But there was this one quote that stuck with me, and it's the reason I will defend Doomwar no matter what people say about it. Right before the final battle, Black Panther says this:

"The future is not immutable. I reject any future where you have supreme judgment over my people. Not just Wakandans, all people. We will find another future, and that search starts here, now."

 

That quote may seem cheesy, but it means something to me. Whenever I feel upset, that quote's something I think about. 

[fae]

I kinda agree.

 

It's true you cannot change the future as a whole. But if you change the way you do and see things. Maybe the future will change with it. Also it's not like you actually know what the future holds..

[Silver_rose]

I have spent the last 5 days facing another low.
This one was more crying rather than dealing with apathy and spending all day sleeping or in bed. 

 

I think it has just been because of everything I've had to go through lately, it's more making me sad rather than hating myself or the world. Less numbness more just feeling everything.

 

It just all feels too hard, I really wish that sometimes I could just have it easier.

[Elfie]

Girl! I feel you.. Sometimes I feel like I wish the world would crumble around me. Why do these people have it soo easy, and I gotta deal with this shit?!

Here it is. First, the grass isn't so green. Every life has a hardship, maybe one you never thought of. All you can do is fertilize your yard, and maybe put up some no walking signs (meaning, look at everything you have that is great, or you have that others don't, or struggle with.) no walking sign meaning, cut out the people trampling your beautiful grass. Even if you can't make them leave your life, ignore their existence.
Second, I forgot this point

Put some headphones on and get lost!!! That ALWAYS HELPS me! Getting lost in music for me, is a way to leave life behind in a positive away. When get into my music I feel a lot and release a lot with little to no hurtful emotion, and even if I do, it's enjoyable because the rocking song!

Feel better girl!

[Bestmand902]

We are all common here, and most of us are understanding people ready to see your point of view, but also ready to teach you knew ones.

 

And I thank you for that.

[flcl_grim]

Just dropped in to talk about how impressed I am by all of this depression.

(You can thank me for the superb puns in various -zepams and -zolams)

[Mister Sympa]

I have spent the last 5 days facing another low.
This one was more crying rather than dealing with apathy and spending all day sleeping or in bed. 

 

I think it has just been because of everything I've had to go through lately, it's more making me sad rather than hating myself or the world. Less numbness more just feeling everything.

 

It just all feels too hard, I really wish that sometimes I could just have it easier.

On the list of People Who Deserve a Fucking Break, you, my dear, are Number One.

[The Robstar]

I'm 10 years late but my condolences to you idk. 

 

Rock on dude.

 

Winter time here in NZ so everyone seems depressed. 

 

I feel great now that I started smoking weed again. LOLOL

[Bestmand902]

I've been really upset about the future lately. I dunno, I just kinda keep having this feeling that nothing's going to get better, nothing I do is going to matter because the planet is already on its way to destruction, and I just have the feeling that this isn't a planet worth living on any more. I don't want to live in this inevitably awful future that's been created, but at the same time, I don't want to kill myself (I'm afraid of leaving my friends and family behind more than I am of death), so I just kinda feel stuck in this limbo of living, but not having any drive to do anything at the same time. 

[Elfie]

Well that is your choice. Drive/motivation is on you. That's your responsibility. That's like saying.. I see all these dirty dishes piling up, but I don't have the drive to clean any of them. I don't think I should have to clean up people's trash from the park my kids play at. But I don't want them to play in filth. So we (kids and I) pick up the trash and then play. It's everyone's world.

[Bowsette]

If everything is pointless, why even bother saying it? What's the point?

 

You make your own future. You're going to be a worthless, weak piece of trash as long as you keep the thought process you currently have. Find something to love and grab onto it, otherwise your future will stay bleak, and you'll wind up a bitter husk full of nothing but jealousy and hatred for the people strong enough to ignore their feelings of helplessness and hopelessness.

 

The world was fated to die from the moment it popped into existence. Similarly, you started to die the second you were born. Curling up into a ball because you can't handle that fact won't help you, it'll come regardless. Pointless or not, it'll come. You don't want to live, you don't want to die. Well guess what? You have to pick one.

 

The world sucks. It's a dark, scary place full of bad things and horrible people. But it's not something you can just sit on the sidelines for. If you don't try with all your might to make something of your life, your place in this world, then it isn't the world that is pointless.

 

It's you.

[Bestmand902]

Well that is your choice. Drive/motivation is on you. That's your responsibility. That's like saying.. I see all these dirty dishes piling up, but I don't have the drive to clean any of them. I don't think I should have to clean up people's trash from the park my kids play at. But I don't want them to play in filth. So we (kids and I) pick up the trash and then play. It's everyone's world.

 

I understand. I usually make these sort of posts after see a lot of sad stuff. I was just thinking about all this environmental damage and all the predjudice out there, and it's just hard for me to put it out of my mind. However, when I see groups that are actively trying to help out these issues, I think to myself "Well at least SOMEBODY'S trying" and I cheer up.

[Bestmand902]

If everything is pointless, why even bother saying it? What's the point?

 

You make your own future. You're going to be a worthless, weak piece of trash as long as you keep the thought process you currently have. Find something to love and grab onto it, otherwise your future will stay bleak, and you'll wind up a bitter husk full of nothing but jealousy and hatred for the people strong enough to ignore their feelings of helplessness and hopelessness.

 

The world was fated to die from the moment it popped into existence. Similarly, you started to die the second you were born. Curling up into a ball because you can't handle that fact won't help you, it'll come regardless. Pointless or not, it'll come. You don't want to live, you don't want to die. Well guess what? You have to pick one.

 

The world sucks. It's a dark, scary place full of bad things and horrible people. But it's not something you can just sit on the sidelines for. If you don't try with all your might to make something of your life, your place in this world, then it isn't the world that is pointless.

 

It's you.

 

You...Feel very strongly about these types of things, don't you?

 

I probably won't keep this thought process forever, these little spouts just kinda come and go when I get upset. And I do have things I love and I do hold on to them, it's just kinda hard to ignore the feelings of helplessness and hopelessness when they linger in my mind for a while.

 

And, question I've had since I met you and I figure I should ask now: You don't have anything against me, do you?

[Bowsette]

Not especially. I just find it hard to sit back when people appear to be looking for sympathy when their issues are easily-solvable, or appear to be created for the sole purpose of getting attention, for whatever reason. You can be sad all you want over the sorry state of the world, but it's not going to get fixed by sitting back and going 'aw it's so sad'. 

 

People can't get through life alone, I know that. I've learned that lesson countless times. Sometimes you need somebody to pick you up when things get too much to bear. I just can't abide the people who don't even try to get up under their own power before turning to others.

[Elfie]

Yes, at least someone is.. I really can't stand that point of view. You don't like what's going on, but you don't want to fix it. That is a very sad state. Progress isn't made by waiting for someone else to do something. Everyone can, and should play a part. All we have is life, and giving the future adults of this world as a shit hole because it's too hopeless is horrible

[Bestmand902]

Not especially. I just find it hard to sit back when people appear to be looking for sympathy when their issues are easily-solvable, or appear to be created for the sole purpose of getting attention, for whatever reason. You can be sad all you want over the sorry state of the world, but it's not going to get fixed by sitting back and going 'aw it's so sad'. 

 

People can't get through life alone, I know that. I've learned that lesson countless times. Sometimes you need somebody to pick you up when things get too much to bear. I just can't abide the people who don't even try to get up under their own power before turning to others.

 

You're right. I've been kinda stupid about this, and I freely admit I was being a little too melodramatic about what I was saying both times. It's just that sometimes, when thoughts like that tend to linger in my head, it feels kind of exhausting because I can't stop thinking about them and I just start thinking like, well, what you saw in my 2 most recent posts.

[Elfie]

So take the energy you are using to feel sorry, and use it for something good.

[Bestmand902]

Yes, at least someone is.. I really can't stand that point of view. You don't like what's going on, but you don't want to fix it. That is a very sad state. Progress isn't made by waiting for someone else to do something. Everyone can, and should play a part. All we have is life, and giving the future adults of this world as a shit hole because it's too hopeless is horrible

 I get what you're saying. I should get out and do some charity work. Might help me rest easier.

[Elfie]

I think so, maybe you are just feeling guilty