Discussion How do normal people tolerate this hell

[sorrymyfault]

What makes someone be glad they exist? I can't fathom it, all my life has been failure, humiliation, embarrassment and depression. How can a normal person be that way so they don't feel the last three I mentioned? I wish I could live in delusion again so I could understand this concept, I really don't know.

 

[divinemistress87]

Blind optimism .I agree I dont understand it. I guess normal peoples brains are wired to always have hope no matter how bad things are

 

[Darkover]

84% of the world's population is religious that gives you some idea why they glad to exist because they don't face the reality head-on instead they deluded themselves into believing a better life awaits them after death rather then realizing they're in fact just nothing forever

 

[sorrymyfault]

84% of the world's population is religious that gives you some idea why they glad to exist because they don't face the reality head-on instead they deluded themselves into believing a better life awaits them after death rather then realizing they're in fact just nothing forever

I could say I believe in some type of god, but I hate this being with every fibre in my body, it's wrong? Maybe, petty? Definitely, but I can't imagine why an almighty perfect being would decide this is the world of all worlds, plain bullshit

Blind optimism .I agree I dont understand it. I guess normal peoples brains are wired to always have hope no matter how bad things are

People are weird man

 

[Rymrgand]

Luck, a lot of delusion and lack of empathy. There's many people who has a decent life and try to ignore at any cost that the world is a hell. If they are lucky, they will be able to live all their lives without being burned by that hell.

84% of the world's population is religious that gives you some idea why they glad to exist because they don't face the reality head-on instead they deluded themselves into believing a better life awaits them after death rather then realizing they're in fact just nothing forever

I'm not sure how trustworthy is that percentage. In some countries, you are considered religious unless you say you aren't. I think I'm officially catholic, for example, and I'm not religious. Besides, some of the ones who are religious don't believe in a Heavenlike afterlife. And this is only my opinion, but I don't think most normal people (in my culture at least) care that much about afterlife. It's more like they are okay with their current lives.

 

[sorrymyfault]

Luck, a lot of delusion and lack of empathy. There's many people who has a decent life and try to ignore at any cost that the world is a hell. If they are lucky, they will be able to live all their lives without being burned by that hell.

I'm not sure how trustworthy is that percentage. In some countries, you are considered religious unless you say you aren't. I think I'm officially catholic, for example, and I'm not religious. Besides, some of the ones who are religious don't believe in a Heavenlike afterlife. And this is only my opinion, but I don't think most normal people (in my culture at least) care that much about afterlife. It's more like they are okay with their current lives.

I'm really jealous of those kind of people, and everyone with a loving family, I can't imagine how much better I would be right now if everyone in my family wasn't an asshole and taught me to be one, a coward asshole even.

 

[FuneralCry]

I understand as I'd personally never wish to suffer in this torturous, futile existence, for me only non-existence could ever be desirable, I see it as something so dreadful to be burdened with this existence suffering all for the sake of it just waiting to die anyway. I find it horrific how a human can exist for so long with no limit as to how much agony they can feel, more than anything I wish I was never forced into this existence, I'd always prefer to not exist as only then am I unable to suffer but only never suffering at all is truly ideal for me.

 

[sixthgun]

What makes someone be glad they exist? I can't fathom it, all my life has been failure, humiliation, embarrassment and depression. How can a normal person be that way so they don't feel the last three I mentioned? I wish I could live in delusion again so I could understand this concept, I really don't know.

Came here to post the exact same thing. I don't get it either. The world is a mess right now and it's only going to get worse. Like… How can someone be happy knowing that the cost of living is rising, it's impossible to get a job without connections, climate change is actively worsening in front of our eyes, there's 30 different wars going on, politicians are blaming everything on minorities while shoving tax money in their pockets, people are openly more hateful than ever and it's having practically no consequences… I could go on.

I get that some people are confident and just don't feel bad about themselves as people somehow… but how can they feel like living when the world looks like this? The future seems hopeless. It doesn't matter how talented or special you are, hard work gets you nowhere anymore.

 

[citruslynx]

I ask the same question everyday. I almost envy others' ability to be able to tolerate (or even go beyond that and actually feel hope and optimism as well as the ability to feel sane in participating in a system.) It makes me start questioning myself like, wtf is wrong with me that I cannot do the same?

Other people are able to overcome failures and embarrassment but it is debilitating for me. Other people are able to live in this stupid world and be able to "play their part" and be blissfully unaware of how shitty things are and how much shittier things can get.

I keep thinking there's something wrong with me... but these last few years I think I'm coming to think that maybe I'm the one who is sane. Sure some parts of me are not normal because I probably never learned to be a well-adjusted human being but at the same time, maybe my depression isn't so illogical or irrational!

 

[Scythe]

Government brainwashing and survival instincts. Most ppl want to live and be happy, so the only option for them to do that is to accept the state of reality. So they do, then criticize anyone who can't because they did it, why can't you?

 

[MatrixPrisoner]

The only explanation is that they are stupid. Because reality has gotten ridiculously stupid. Therefore, anyone that is ok with this reality has to be utterly fucking stupid. Literally...braindead. We have the chance to live (or should I say be dead) in a world where nothing can bother us. I'm taking it.

 

[Michelstaedter]

Most people are trained to have that impulse to live, a way of not only being optimistic, but wanting to continue paying with suffering in exchange for some pleasure or momentary (or even mental) satisfaction that makes them continue in life even if they suffer. In some other cases, there will be people who, for one reason or another, have it at their disposal to have a more or less bearable life and in this way try to be tied (to life) and avoid thinking about what will inevitably happen to them one day (die).