The longer I live, the more I feel that life just isn't worth it. I have no thoughts of suicide or anything like that, but if I died and some cosmic being were to ask me "Do you want to go again?" I would say no.
Life has beauty, and love, and joy, and so many wonderful emotions, but it is also marred by an abundance of pain, suffering, fear, boredom, and misery. To me, the negatives outweigh the positives. We struggle so long and hard for scraps of fleeting joy before being sucked back into tediousness.
I am no longer comforted by the thought of brighter days ahead when I can still see the storm clouds brewing behind them.
negativity bias is actually a caveman-evolved thing is something I was told.
I was told that when people remembered a negative experience again and again and again and again back in the caveman days it made it easier to avoid that negative experience. So The cavemen and women that remembered that 'THIS is the plant that killed Krooga ' or rembered 'Oh we cant go over there cause that place is full of cliffs and cave-cover-collapse sinkholes' or 'damn, that cougar looks kinda biiig. JUST as big as the cougar that killed my girlfriend/dad/whoever. Guess we wont hunt it. We'll hunt something smaller' tended to be the ones who lived and reproduced the most often since they were the ones who typically avoided lethal dangers the most.
Negativity bias isnt a completely bad thing....uhh in some cases. Its a becomes good thing whene it helps to prevent you from getting back into experiences that can lead to your pain or greivous wounds again. It becoems self-destructive when you start to see it as a reason to just do nothing at all, even things that could help you.
"The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillunioned. I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." - Antonio Gramsci
I mean I don't dress happy but I try and enjoy the heck out of every moment I have to experience nature or interact or just be. Enjoy food and shelter and such.
17 Comments
squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi · 19 pts · 69d
How I feel on the inside: 🏳️🌈
How I dress: 🏴
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 69d
as long as it makes you happy!
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 68d
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 68d
The longer I live, the more I feel that life just isn't worth it. I have no thoughts of suicide or anything like that, but if I died and some cosmic being were to ask me "Do you want to go again?" I would say no.
Life has beauty, and love, and joy, and so many wonderful emotions, but it is also marred by an abundance of pain, suffering, fear, boredom, and misery. To me, the negatives outweigh the positives. We struggle so long and hard for scraps of fleeting joy before being sucked back into tediousness.
I am no longer comforted by the thought of brighter days ahead when I can still see the storm clouds brewing behind them.
far_university1990@reddthat.com · 0 pts · 68d
Joy not only feeling of moment. Joy is memory you can remember and feel again.
Bad day only need to live once. Good day you can live again and again in memory.
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 67d
Based on psychology, you re-live your worst days in your head vastly more than your best days, and that seems to be a hard-wired response for the majority of folks.
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 12d
negativity bias is actually a caveman-evolved thing is something I was told.
I was told that when people remembered a negative experience again and again and again and again back in the caveman days it made it easier to avoid that negative experience. So The cavemen and women that remembered that 'THIS is the plant that killed Krooga ' or rembered 'Oh we cant go over there cause that place is full of cliffs and cave-cover-collapse sinkholes' or 'damn, that cougar looks kinda biiig. JUST as big as the cougar that killed my girlfriend/dad/whoever. Guess we wont hunt it. We'll hunt something smaller' tended to be the ones who lived and reproduced the most often since they were the ones who typically avoided lethal dangers the most.
Negativity bias isnt a completely bad thing....uhh in some cases. Its a becomes good thing whene it helps to prevent you from getting back into experiences that can lead to your pain or greivous wounds again. It becoems self-destructive when you start to see it as a reason to just do nothing at all, even things that could help you.
Zacryon@feddit.org · 6 pts · 67d
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 12d
"The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillunioned. I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." - Antonio Gramsci
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 69d
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 67d
Me
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 68d
yooooooo it's apple girlington
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 68d
I mean I don't dress happy but I try and enjoy the heck out of every moment I have to experience nature or interact or just be. Enjoy food and shelter and such.
cattywampus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 68d
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 68d
Likewise
joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 67d
There isn't one without the other so it goes but I totally dig the line of thinking and am on board
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 67d
omgg sameeee
plyth@feddit.org · 0 pts · 68d
Which one of the three are you?