Growing up, you realize how true it is that we live in a chaotic universe

[affirmatice]

while all humans are on a path to self-discovery, happiness, success. There's also the inevitable chaos of the universe at work. Which sometimes just makes things seem meaningless.

I have been blessed with a lot. I'm naturally shy/anxious which has always been a difficult battle. But I come from a wealthy background, first world country, have friends/girlfriend, tall, and decently attractive.

Guess what, even after all that, I've been severely depressed due to chronic health conditions. I often fantasize about a life where I'm reborn and don't go through this. But then I realize, what's to say I'm not born in a third world country, born into poverty, born with some genetic disease. Not to mention all of the things that can occur throughout a 70 year long life that can be really difficult to deal with.

It just feels like life's a joke sometimes. Easy to be happy when everything's going fine. But we're really just organisms in a chaotic universe. Things go wrong and things are bad. And if it's not happening to you, then it's happening to someone else

 

[xxAbigailxx]

I wonder if anyone in this world is really, truly happy, or if we all ache for something we can never have

 

[beseechgod]

I wonder if anyone in this world is really, truly happy, or if we all ache for something we can never have

I think some people have found peace, and I think we all have the capacity within us but it's just a matter of somehow finding the right way through this labyrinth of chaos.

 

[Electra]

I also think upbringing, trauma and many other things go into equation here. Some people are more spiritual than others. But I do believe we're searching for something to make us content in this chaotic world.

 

[LukaParrot]

Doesnt seens crazy the way life is nowdays?

You're free till 5-6 years old, then you're put in a school to study, at teenage, study again to "be someone", reaching almost adulthood, luck one can choose to study again or dont wanna study? Work!

Most people will work all our adult life to have a roof and eat.... in middle of that, we have to be lucky to find joy, to find some company, a life partner. I believe we were made to not be alone, or else, there should not be male and female....

And after all that, when we're old, strugle with money (in most cases) and die. If luck, die with natural causes, if unluck, in accident, by suicide, by nature...

Maybe life makes more sense if you do something that really means to you.

Shit... I'm a depressed old guy... not in a good day today.