Sensitive words

[LookingforAnswers]

the world has gone cold.
I can't help but to feel alone.

Billions of people fighting for more pieces of paper.
Accumulation of more dollars for the cost of peace and joy.

Community support has become nonexistent.

I feel too sensitive to live in this world plagued by selfishness and terrible values.

I feel fucked

 

[dreamscape1111]

we need sensitive people like us to balance out the harshness, it's all part of the plan :)

here are some excerpts from a book that i found helpful as a fellow sensitive person:

"My own understanding is that people who commit suicide are the most sensitive people in the world, very intelligent. Because of their sensitivity, because of their intelligence, they find it difficult to cope with this neurotic world.

In this neurotic world, if you are sane, sensitive, intelligent, either you have to go mad, or you have to commit suicide – or you have to become a sannyasin, a meditator, a seeker. What else is there?

People commit suicide because they are feeling stuck and they don't see any way out.

Intelligence means seeing deeply into things. Has your life any point? Has your life any joy? Has your life any poetry in it? Has your life any creativity in it? Do you feel grateful that you are here? Do you feel grateful that you were born? Can you thank existence? Can you say with your whole heart that it is a blessing?

It is a very, very natural idea when you are intelligent. Intelligent people commit suicide. And those who are even more intelligent than the intelligent people take sannyas. They start creating a meaning, they start creating a significance, they start living. Why miss this opportunity?

He who has so confronted his death is stabbed awake thereby. He perceives himself now as an individual distinct from the mass, and is prepared to take over responsibility for his own life. In this way, we decide for authentic against inauthentic existence. We emerge from the mass and become ourselves at last.

Remember, I am not saying that you should go and commit suicide. I am saying that your life, as it is, is leading you towards suicide. Change it. And contemplate death. It can come any moment, so don't think that it is morbid to think about death.

Suffering is created by ideas which don't go with reality; bliss is created when you have ideas which go with reality. Bliss is a coherence between you and the truth; suffering is a dichotomy, a division between you and the truth. When you are not moving with truth you are in hell; when you are moving with truth you are in heaven – that's all. And that is the whole thing to be understood."

—Osho, Next Time You Feel Suicidal

 

[tinymoon]

I don't have answers or reassurances, but I empathize greatly with feeling too sensitive to endure life. It's just constant friction, inside of you, with the people around you, with society. It's especially painful to know it could be different but the carelessness, selfishness, malice, and ignorance of others shapes the world in a place with so much awfulness. It makes one feel powerless and despairing. A lot of people choose to numb themselves, or focus on what they can control in their individual lives, or even devote themselves to a particular cause, but when you step back and look at it all it can be so soul-crushing and overwhelming. I have good will towards you, as much as that could mean anything in this distant online capacity. I empathize and feel compassion.