(January 8, 2016 at 12:09 pm)pool Wrote: Or.. what is the purpose of being alive? What difference does it make if someone is alive or not? What should hold someone out from committing suicide if there is no meaning or purpose to this pathetic of an excuse of time on this shithole of a planet?..
The harsh reality is nothing can physically stop you from killing yourself. The good side is that we also evolved to value self and we do have modern psychology, and psychiatry and even medications that can help one cope with mental illness.
But I really do hate the false dichotomy that life is all pretty and if we don't view it that way we are fatalistic. NO! Accepting that this is the only ride we have and accepting that bad stuff is as natural as good stuff is not saying it is all doom and gloom.
You go to a movie knowing it will end. You go to a music concert knowing it will end. You go to a sporting event also knowing it will end, but you still go and you still find joy in doing those things. I would have never gotten my current cat who is awesome and my best buddy, if I had dwelled on the death of my prior cat.
More importantly, I wouldn't have grown closer to my mom which I am now, if I had dwelled on the death of my dad, or my grandparents or my mom's friends. I get lots of joy helping her out. I get lots of joy with our inside jokes. And she is elderly and while I do fear her not being around and want her around forever, I cant dwell on what we cannot avoid.
I am glad I have stuck it out. I have depression myself, but I think now about what I would have missed, that keeps me going. Life does not have to be all joy all the time nor do we have to live for eternity to value now.
There is no long term meaning to life no, but there is meaning now, while we are alive. To devalue life because it is finite is to live in fear.
