When you feel down about your life, do you ever stop to think that you aren't the only one?

Every person on this planet has a story to tell. Every person has experienced happiness and every person has experienced tragedy.
That is what life is all about! It might suck right now, but it always changes. Life always changes. It is only a series of good and bad things, positive and negative, yin and yang.
That is what I remind myself of when I want to feel better. What about you?

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plungesponge · 41-45, M

The reason people would feel down about life is because they believe life is meant to be fun and enjoyable, rather than just an epic experience that can be inspiring or horrific. All pain comes from unmet expectations. Life is mostly just a struggle to live the best you can against a stacked deck.

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself." - D. H. Lawrence

NineLives · 41-45, F

Oh, I like this! 👍

TwiddlerofThumbs · F

Have you never heard an animal cry?

plungesponge · 41-45, M

haha. I'm a fan of Spartan culture. In that society, which lasted 300 years - far longer than our modern day ideals have lasted, the greatest glory was to die fighting, the greater the odds against you, the more glorious it was deemed. The harder life is, the more opportunities for happiness. I have a prediction that in the present day, where most people are grasping for meaning where morals are endlessly relative, the foundations of society are falling away and so little seems sacred, it's people who hold personal truths like this to be self-evident who will keep going.

NineLives · 41-45, F

[quote] I have a prediction that in the present day, where most people are grasping for meaning where morals are endlessly relative, the foundations of society are falling away and so little seems sacred, it's people who hold personal truths like this to be self-evident who will keep going.[/quote]

I couldn't agree more. I love what you have to say!

plungesponge · 41-45, M

@TwiddlerOfThumbs: "Cry" is broad term. Do you mean have I ever heard an animal cry out in pain, or scream out for help from it's family as it is being mauled? Sure. But have I ever seen a wild animal weep in sorrow for where it finds itself in the world today? Pining for the better yesterday, depressed at the mistakes it has made? No. Wild animals can't afford to waste energy that way.