Life sucks sometimes

[Channelknight Fadran]

So I dunno if y'all have noticed, but recently a whole lotta sharders have been feeling absolutely disgustingly icky. It honestlly sucks to go through all the SU notifs and find everyone, one after another, talking about how much life sucks.

Anyways, that's why this thread is here. Basically this place is for talking about the hard things so we can all help each other, whether that be with little inspirational messages or just general hugs. Because sometimes life does really suck. A lot.

But that's okay.

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

Nice! someone started this finally, I have been wanting to but I always have been forgetting to. Life sucks. 

[Frustration]

Life sucks sometimes.

Worth it, but man. It sucks.

[Knight of Iron she/they]

I have so much to decide, not much time to decide it, and I have no idea what to do or what I'm doing.

[Nathrangking he/him]

I have been told that I have a way with words. Personally, I feel as though I'm an imposter. I'm not as good or as capable as people say. 

[Experience he/him]

If anyone ever needs someone to talk to, just PM me!!!

[Trutharchivist he/him]

Currently - in this specific moment - I feel completely fine (thank G-d), but I generally feel down lately. The main reason is my servitude in the IDF. I have a job I don't much enjoy here, and have to be on the road for 4-6 hours twice each week, to get from home to where I work and back. And I sometimes find it hard to enjoy the company here - though that's probably just something I need to work on myself. And every once in a while I try to think of my long term life plans, just to realize I don't have any.

My life don't really that much suck - or, at least, it doesn't feel that they do at the moment - but there are many annoying things.

[Robin Sedai she/her]

*hugs for everyone*

I'm under a lot of pressure. I often have to take care of my siblings alone (I'm doing it right now) and I'm also very behind academically. I have no idea what I should do, where my life is going, when I'm ever going to see my mother again, so yeah, life sucks.

[Spren of Kindness she/her]

6 hours ago, Nathrangking said:

I have been told that I have a way with words. Personally, I feel as though I'm an imposter. I'm not as good or as capable as people say. 

Dude, you absolutely do.  You have an absolutely amazing and fascinating voice in your writing, and it's very admirable.  I have a feeling that if I met you in person, I'd find your vocal pattern super interesting!

 

[Aleph-Naught he/him]

Life is random, cruel, and stupid--the bad almost always outweighs the good. I inevitably find myself contemplating others who have commented on this far better than I ever could hope to. Seneca the Younger wrote that:

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We are all chained to fortune: the chain of one is made of gold, and wide, while that of another is short and rusty. But what difference does it make? The same prison surrounds all of us, and even those who have bound others are bound themselves... Honors bind one man, wealth another; nobility oppresses some, humility others; some are held in subjection by an external power, while others obey the tyrant within; banishments keep some in one place, the priesthood others. All life is slavery. Therefore each one must accustom himself to his own condition and complain about it as little as possible, and lay hold of whatever good is to be found near him. Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. Small tablets, because of the writer's skill, have often served for many purposes, and a clever arrangement has often made a very narrow piece of land habitable. Apply reason to difficulties; harsh circumstances can be softened, narrow limits can be widened, and burdensome things can be made to press less severely on those who bear them cleverly.

But trying to live the life of a Hellenistic Stoic philosopher kind of makes life suck even more. And y'know what? People should be able to complain about their material conditions--especially if those condition's origins can be easily and directly traced to being the victim of an utterly unfair and imbalanced system that has exploited you and enriched itself in the process.

So then I think about Kurt Vonnegut, who wrote:

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Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'

Granted, Kurt Vonnegut then went on to rightfully say that:

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That there are such devices as firearms, as easy to operate as cigarette lighters and as cheap as toasters, capable at anybody's whim of killing Father or Fats or Abraham Lincoln or John Lennon or Martin Luther King, Jr., or a woman pushing a baby carriage, should be proof enough for anybody that being alive is a crock of s--t.

The past couple of days--as I struggle to endure the noble misery of my job and things outside of it that threaten to overwhelm my family--I have found myself thinking of David Milch, who managed to summarize the struggle against life's relentless awfulness in a monumentally succinct way when his character from the show "Deadwood", Jane Canary, simply stated:

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Every day takes figuring out all over again how to f-----g live.

 

Edited March 4, 2022 by Aleph-Naught
Quote accuracy by modifying expletives from autocorrected ones.

[Knight of Iron she/they]

I really, really, really, really, really hate people sometimes.

[Frustration]

Just now, Knight of Iron said:

I really, really, really, really, really hate people sometimes.

Agreed.

 

I also really, really, really, really, really hate myself sometimes.

[Robin Sedai she/her]

Agreed. Life is just crapaflapnasti.

[Knight of Iron she/they]

12 minutes ago, Frustration said:

I also really, really, really, really, really hate myself sometimes.

8 minutes ago, Robin Sedai said:

Agreed. Life is just crapaflapnasti.

Myself is just the worst.

[Frustration]

2 minutes ago, Knight of Iron said:

Myself is just the worst.

Yes, I hate that guy, he ruins everything.

One time I had a bunch of things to do, and Myself came and stoped me.

Edited March 9, 2022 by Frustration

[Knight of Iron she/they]

Just now, Frustration said:

Yes, I hate that guy, he ruins everything.

One time I had a bunch of things to do, and Myself comes in and stops me.

BRO NO WAY

Myself does that to me all the time. I hate 'im and his face.

[Szeth's Facepalm]

*anguished screaming*

lyfe sucks sometimes :D

 

[#1 Taln Fan he/him]

Life does suck, and definitely has for me lately. But it eventually gets at least somewhat better. Some stuff about life doesn’t suck, like friends and books. 

[revelryintheart she/her]

feelings are confusing and i hate having them

[Spren of Kindness she/her]

5 hours ago, revelryintheart said:

feelings are confusing and i hate having them

Me too.

It gets better though.  Sometimes it takes a while, depending on what those feelings are, but it gets better.

[Going_North_cal]

Bro feelings are annoying and wack. So is having a cold.

Put those 2 together, you get me not wanting to be a functioning member of society.

I feel like garbage, emotionally, mentally, and phsyically, and have for the past 3 days.

[AerionBFII he/him]

On 11/03/2022 at 8:59 PM, Doomslug The Destroyer said:

Bro feelings are annoying and wack. So is having a cold.

Put those 2 together, you get me not wanting to be a functioning member of society.

I feel like garbage, emotionally, mentally, and phsyically, and have for the past 3 days.

I tested positive for Covid 3 days ago, felt fine but now I’ve got the ickiest cold ever. Absolutely  floored me. 
 

life sucks 

[Going_North_cal]

It does. But it'll get better m8

[The Isochronism he/him]

Alright, nobody's said anything here for a while, So I'll just agree. Life isn't the greatest. But I also sort of have some advice. A lot of you have said stuff, about how you don't really belong, or that you're an imposter, and you're not as great as people think. Don't get me wrong, I totally feel these things to, but feel like either we're all imposters... or none of us are. I don't feel qualified to be giving advice because I know for a fact that I'm no better then you guys are but I wrote a speech a while back for a contest, and I kinda feel like it applies. I would post the link to it here... but I'm not that great and it smells a bit of self-promotion, but I have heard lots of good advice in my day and I feel like I've learned a lot about how to feel like you belong and are worth something and whatnot. So my invitation is please DM me if you want advice, or just to see my take on some of this world's issues. (like the fact that life sucks.) 

You all are awesome!

[That1Cellist he/him]

Does anyone else often just feel extraordinarily alone and forgotten? Like a bottle with all your thoughts and feelings inside. You just want to let some of it out, but you can't.