do you consider your life a punishment or reward

[Darkover]

Whether someone considers their life a "punishment" or a "reward" is entirely subjective and depends on their individual perspective, experiences, and mindset; it's not a universal answer, and most people would likely see their lives as a mix of both positive and negative aspects.

If someone focuses on the good aspects of their life, like loving relationships, personal achievements, and good health, they might view their life as a reward

if someone dwells on hardships, challenges, and negative experiences, they might perceive their life as a punishment.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

Punishment. Life is the worst punishment that could ever happen to me. Within this life, suffering and hardships are inevitable and there's also the future risk that I could suffer horribly due to me merely being alive. Also, happiness is fleeting and temporary; it's suffering and hardship that is the default state of every organism on this planet, not happiness. We were designed (by chemical reactions, not by god) to be motivated rather than satisfied. Religious people talk about how perfect the human body has been designed but no perfect body would be at the risk of so many chronic pains and extreme conditions. Not to mention that life is fundamentally designed to where somebody's happiness comes at a cost of somebody else's suffering. That's just how life has been designed like and it isn't intelligent design but rather stupid design.

Religious people love to talk about there being a hell after death but after witnessing how earth operates, I think that earth is hell. Life is hell. Sentience is hell. How can I ever see such a thing as rewarding? Even if I were the human that was at the top of everybody else, so many people would have to suffer just for me to maintain that position. This isn't a positive, it's a negative.

 

[Pluto]

 

[Forever Sleep]

For what though? What did we do prior to it to receive a punishment or a reward for? Maybe that question would be better put towards parents because they initiated the process. I'm sure some feel rewarded while, others feel cursed. Either way though- they brought it on themselves.

Whether life has rewarded or punished me for my actions, I've received both to varying degrees. I've had unjust punishment as well as just punishment. Would you consider any reward as being undeserved though? If someone was born with good genes, good looks, wealth- are they more undeserving of that as opposed to someone born with non stop hardships? At that point, we haven't done anything to warrant a reward or punishment.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

I consider life A punishment. An imposition torture slavery prison

I never asked to be here

 

[L'absent]

I consider life a scary, imposed and meaningless experience. We are thrown into the world without a WHY, but in an absurd way!

 

[EvisceratedJester]

It's neither.

 

[alienfreak]

For what though? What did we do prior to it to receive a punishment or a reward for? Maybe that question would be better put towards parents because they initiated the process. I'm sure some feel rewarded while, others feel cursed. Either way though- they brought it on themselves.

Whether life has rewarded or punished me for my actions, I've received both to varying degrees. I've had unjust punishment as well as just punishment. Would you consider any reward as being undeserved though? If someone was born with good genes, good looks, wealth- are they more undeserving of that as opposed to someone born with non stop hardships? At that point, we haven't done anything to warrant a reward or punishment.

I remember being physically punished when i was a kid but i have no idea why. Animals like dogs must feel the same when they are punished as part of training but dont understand why. I suppose it can be like this.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I consider life a scary, imposed and meaningless experience. We are thrown into the world without a WHY, but in an absurd way!

There is no "why", at least not any meaningful one. We're only here because of the consequences of chemical reactions, that's it. As for why those chemical reactions happened, it all boils down to shitty luck. All we really are is the product of a bunch of chemical reactions. Humans try to act like they're much more than this to feel superior but they really aren't. We're nothing in the grand scheme of things