• Lauchs@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I, like most of us on Lemmy, live a better life than almost the entirety of the rest of human history.

    Life is full of wonders and joy and there’s so much more to enjoy!

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      12 days ago

      Gratitude is essential to happiness, studies show and also just duh.

      And there really is good reason for it - e.g. all the literal wars fought in the past so that we could have such wonders as we do.

      Happiness isn’t entirely just a choice, but it is partially one. 💞

      Oh, and also chocolate, definitely chocolate.

      parks and rec

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      12 days ago

      I, like most of us on Lemmy, live a better life than almost the entirety of the rest of human history.

      I’m sorry, I’m sorry, the world and by extension you have been so kind to me and I turned out to be just this worthless waste of oxygen, my existence a net negative of epic proportions and yet I’m too cowardly to at least end this miserable experiment.

      Life is full of wonders and joy and there’s so much more to enjoy!

      Life is full of putting on a face and smiling and playing a well-adjusted individual and I’m so tired.

      Welcome to depression-ville, population way too fucking many.

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      This is how I like to think about it. There’s so many cool things I haven’t gotten to experience, both natural and man-made. Giving up would mean I never get to see them and appreciate them.

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      But what is the point of living a slow life, if it means you’ll die and it’ll all amount to nothing anyways?

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    12 days ago

    My continued existence pisses off fascists.

    I’m vegan, non-binary (with dyed hair), car-free, a member of a linguistic minority, poor, and many other things that make conservatives think the world would be better off without me. I strive to survive mostly to spite these fuckers.

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    12 days ago

    If nothing else, my family. I don’t have a good sense of the future or life goals, so I keep myself moving by setting small goals. Plans to bake something, working on a painting, just little things around the home.

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      Hello fellow non life goal setter! Having that life goal mentality fucked me up for years, went to therapy and learned to live in the present while trying not to obsess about the future. So now little things are what keeps me going: Getting to yoga class, fixing a nice plate of food if I feel like it, petting my dogs, crocheting so I feel thr burden of the stuff that has to get done a little less.

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    Life can be rough but by all measures I have a good one.

    Zooming out and realizing the value of what I have is important, even when I’m dealing with mental health, dying loved ones, finances, etc.

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    Nicotine, pain killers, a laughable disability payment…

    …and a furious, blinding rage at the inequity of modern terminal stage capitalism that has doomed our planet to ecocide and most of its inhabitants into petty, self-centered, egotistical and ignorant caricatures of human beings…

    …which has mostly congealed and calcified into some kind of mixture of contempt and spite that is either the basis of, or what I can erroneously yet convincingly present to myself and others as the basis of my identity, self-worth and sense of humor, concluding that merely surviving as long as I can, and pursuing that which I enjoy which requires next to 0 monetary expenditure, is the meek and feeble yet largest middle finger I can personally raise toward all who pursue wealth accumulation, or enable those who do.