Why is life so miserable?

Answer 1

You know what? Yes, sometimes it is very miserable especially if you lose someone. Somehow though you overcome it and eventually nice things happen in life too....believe me....just hang in there. Good luck!!

Answer 2

OK, maybe I'll eat my words if your answers to all these questions are "YES"...
Are you a single teenage mother? have you been raped? are you living in poverty? Have your parents been killed? Have you lost all possible sources of income? Have you been paralyzed? Did your boyfriend just leave you for another girl hes been cheating with for more than a year now?

Things can always be worse. I suppose its somewhat likely that your answer was "YES" to at least one of the preceding questions, but I'm sure there is someone out there who can say yes to nearly all. The point is, people have it worse than you. If you're suffering from depression, seek medication and treatment. It is absolutely necessary.

If you're grim about politics, your friends being two-faced, your parents being strict and alcoholic or something like that, your little brothers getting a stereo system the same year as you even though your parents made you wait until you were 16 and your brother is only 10, or, ok, your boyfriend cheated on you, there are worse things. Life isn't miserable, life is what you make of it. Listen to some happy music, read some books. Education is the ultimate mental/emotional cureall.

Be careful what you do when you feel this way because there are people who love you. Don't listen to the fools trying to use this opportunity to advertise Jesus to you, you don't need that garbage. That'll give you artificial happiness and a hollow existence. I would encourage you to pick up some hobbies, do some volunteer work, make new friends, give to the poor, quit doing drugs, whatever you have to do to make you feel good and healthy. Just weigh every decision before you make it, remember, life isn't a timed test, but you can fail.

So, life isn't miserable, but it sounds like you're miserable right now, and I'm so sorry. i hope you get out of this sad state, and I'm rooting for you. Good luck!

Answer 3

If life did not challenge us with little miseries we would not be able to appreciate the good moments. Suffering makes the between times so much more sweet. OK - did all that make you want to toss your cookies? :}

Life is only miserable if you allow it to be my friend. We each face challenges in our lives daily. It is our own "will" that allows us to decide if what life deals us makes us happy or miserable.

So make a choice - and then know that YOU made that choice and live with it. Some people just like being unhappy....and then, isn't that their own form of happiness?

Answer 4

I'm sorry if something is happening to you that makes you miserable, but remember this: it's not life itself that's so miserable. It's your opinion of it that makes it the way it is. Life and living is the same for everyone. It's how you handle it and what you think of it.

Answer 5

Life is growth. Life is perception. We lost our home and all belongings in Katrina. We had very little insurance. I considered it an adventure. I learned SO much from the experience. I had SO much positive outcome from it. I felt GRATEFUL almost every moment.

My partner viewed it as devastation and horror. She wept and wept. She grieved and grieved. She became suicidal like many other people who attempted suicide at that time. Policemen, firemen, doctors killed themselves.

My best friend saw it almost like I saw it. Neither of us experienced much sadness or grief. EVERYTHING happens for a reason. EVERYTHING works out for GOOD for those who love the Lord. If you REALLY believe everything works out for good for those who love the Lord, how CAN you be said. If you BELIEVE you are going to be better off for an experience, how can you be sad?

If you BELIEVE that when one door closes another opens, then who can be sad about a divorce or death or losing belongings?

I have lived on the other side. I have suffered through loss and misery and grief with a hopeless view for many years. Now I have God and hope. Since I found God, I am happier. My PERCEPTION has changed. I no longer view things as loss, I view them as gain. I BELIEVE these things. I have found everything in the bible to be true. I have found there always is an open door or window. I have found it always does work out for better. It has worked for me.

I was called "Polly f------- Anna" by someone dear to me. They felt my view of life was not based on reality. They felt I lived in a fairy tale world. Who cares? Life and feelings are based on PERCEPTION... how you see things. Not on how they actually are. Who can win the question, "is the glass half full or half empty?" It is each person's perception. I usually see the glass half full. I think I am happier than the people who see it as half empty.

My answer to your question is... Life is miserable because you see it that way.

Answer 6

Have you talked to a good counselor about this attitude? A little bit of help might be needed. Life isn't miserable. Life is wonderful ... granted-some days more than others ... life is a joy. Perk up.

And SMILE .. it is hard to feel miserable when you are smiling.

Answer 7

Life is what YOU make it, bad breaks and all
My two sons died one 9 months, the other 10
my sister 11 months now have two small grandchildren to take care of and fight off a crack head ( Mother of the children)
Need to work full time and come home to do more and more

So easy to give up and join the crowd but I see how depressed
some people are because they have no direction...no joy in life

Get busy doing something,anything, help someone

You will help yourself

Answer 8

1 John 5:19

Answer 9

Why do so many people find it nearly impossible to find anything good or beautiful about their lives?

It is only miserable if that is all you focus on. Even someone in the midst of a terrible situation can be happy if they set their heart and mind on something wonderful.

Don't believe me? Think about the Apostle Paul. It is recorded in the book of Acts that he was hated, beaten, abused and placed in stocks in the inner prison for his faith. This literally means he was locked down where there was no sunlight, no air worth breathing, there were rats, filth, stench, and he was probably sitting in his own excrement, and with deep bleeding gashes in his back from the scouring, and the scriptures record he was singing and praising God in the prison. All the other prisoners could hear him......

Now, if that isn't a classic example of "it all depends on what you're focusing on", I don't know what is.

We all have circumstances to contend with that aren't fair and we can't change them. I watched my Dad die of cancer two years ago, lying helpless in bed with his spine literally eaten up with disease. I just left my Mom's house where she is also lying helpless in bed, dying of not one but two terminal diseases. My first husband beat and abused me, my current husband battled alcoholism and habitual lying, his sister is a drug addict and alcoholic who frequently calls on us to talk her down from a suicidal episode. My husband's father DID succeed in killing himself, and we raised a nephew as our own son who has turned out to be an ungrateful, selfish, two-faced brat.....and I just want to tell you that I am happy!

I have become an expert at focusing on the blessings....and I do have significant blessing in the midst of all this turmoil. But it definitely means I have to look away from the miserable things to focus on those blessings....and it is certainly worthwhile to do it!

Life isn't miserable, unless you convince yourself it is.

Good luck!

Answer 10

The quality of my life is something that only I have control over.
While my life has its ups and downs I refuse to look at life as anything but a gift from GOD.