Do you ever wish your life never happened?

Question

lets face it. Life is crap. Why bother stuggling day after day? You try to make sense out of it by holding a belief that there ia a all powerful god 'watching over' you and planning things for you.
The truth too terrible for you to see is that you are no more important than a tiny molecule of dust on the planet mars.
When you understand this fact - how can you justify stuggling from day to day?
Are you happy to lie to yourself hang on to your material comforts and your illusions of granduer in an imaginary master plan?

Answer 1

Sometimes I regret having been born, but not for your reasons. It's because I'll have to die and return to oblivion. It was a cruel cosmic joke to give life only to take it away.

Answer 2

Life can be crap at times and sometimes it seems like that's all it is. We need to make the best of what we have and be more accepting of life and reality as it is. I get so depressed at times that I'd like to scream and sometimes I do, but basically I'm just happy being alive, just little old me, an insignificant clump of molecules, nobody special in the universe, nobody special among mankind, my dogs think I'm okay but that's about it. Not the special creation of a loving heavenly father, which to me is nothing more than a self-flattering delusion like a security blanket. I'm just another anonymous Earth man trying to live this life the best way he knows how and find a little joy and comfort along the way in a brief period of existence. I know and accept the fact that this is most likely all that there is so I'd better accept it and enjoy it while I have it. If there's anything after this, that's just a little lagniappe.

Answer 3

Everyday. The idea that I am the result of two people in the back seat drinking Jack Daniels on a Saturday night sort of takes the meaning out of being "wanted". God knows my real father split soon after I was born, and my mother is a complete whack-job most days of the week. Now, I'm 46 and have several successful suicides under my belt (not really. I am here. Other than others playing "hero" and calling 911, I should be in the ground for all of eternity), and the attendant stays in the psychward at Hershey MC in Hershey, Pennsylvania, I view my(?) life as a colossal mistake.

Answer 4

I used to wish that all that time when I was a kid. I suppose if my life were just painfully miserable, I'd still wish it all the time. Now I only rarely wish it. I mean I'm thankful for the good experiences I've had. If I had committed suicide when I was a teenager, I never would've read Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter. Sometimes I dread dying, not just because it's scary, but because I think of all the things I'm going to miss out on that will happen after I die. Sometimes I wish I had never existed just so I won't have to die, and I figure if I didn't exist, then I wouldn't feel like I was missing out on anything since there would be no me to do the missing out.

Answer 5

When I was a child I sometimes wished I had never been born, but since I have matured a little and started learning the truth about Life I'm actually pretty excited about it.

Note: I didn't start maturing and learning until I was 50+ years old. Until then I was a Ego believer, like everyone else.

Answer 6

It's so interesting why would anyone not want to be here , why would anyone not want to experience this?
Life is a beautiful thing.. To feel important is not important to me..I mean a sun rise is so beautiful, that's important to me or a star filled sky, the birds singing in the trees. What im saying is ,it's the little things like that that makes life worth living...Stop and smell the roses, enjoy the journey..Life is full of beauty...

Answer 7

Oh, no no no. Life is beautiful. Truly.

Are you living to die? Or are you really focused on life itself, rather than preparing yourself for death/after life/what comes next.

I think some people forfeit 'life' while focusing only on what they think comes next, after death. Even if you believe in Heaven or some form of after life it doesn't mean you have to sacrifice yourself in this life. You can live your life according to your moral or religious code while simultaneously living life to it's fullest. There are guidelines in the bible that remove a lot of muck from an individual's life when followed. For instance, I see sooooo much judgment and condemnation that fill people with hate and other ill feelings when it is really against their own religious code to judge!

I don't know enough about you to give uplifting advice. My ramblings above are meant to be vague and general rather than personal.

I hope you find a way to enjoy life. It really is beautiful.

Answer 8

In the dope dealing days we used to play a game. Load a pistol. Pull the hammer back, turn the lights off,the gun has to have a hair trigger, toss the gun into the middle of the room and try not to get shot. Sound like fun? Made a lot of money playing this game. East Texas form of Russian roulette.

Answer 9

convinced, I absolutely have contained in the previous needed such issues. yet then I realised that in the journey that they hadn't exceeded off i doesn't be the female i'm on the instantaneous - greater than i ought to have realised if those terrible issues hadn't exceeded off. i imagine that the way I absolutely have reacted to those products makes a huge difference. i ought to play sufferer and wallow in self-pity, or i ought to imagine about what i favor to do with the subsequent 40 years or so and study from my memories.

Answer 10

As a fellow existentialist, while there is some truth to your statements, killing yourself/wishing you had never been born would be equally pointless. Might as well live it up while you still can and make the most of your pathetic, pitiful meaningless existence, at least in the small scale.