walk my path alone

I have lost complete faith in humanity. It didn't happen overnight. It took a lifetime. I don't even want to share personal stories or the unfolding of it, I don't think it would make a difference. I don't even want to connect in real life anymore and even that story here isn't for connection. I don't even know if putting things down into words will make any difference at that point. I don't even think I'm that much better, I'm full of flaws and full of anger, I just even see a point of there can't be mutual respect and trust. And it's rare to see even basic decency nowadays.

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twistedrope · 26-30, M

The idea of having no faith in humanity isn't so bad but imo it doesn't work in the long term. Humans are social creatures and hanging out with people, good people is a reliever of stress. Stress accumulation does a ton of bad stuff like burn out, disassociation, decreased happiness and it just makes relieving stress even more difficult.

If you don't want to connect with the people around you, you can heal other ways through hobbies and other forms of reward then come back to re-analyze. I have faith in humanity, even if I love it as well as hate it.

If you want to hate humanity, I believe you should do as much research and work and collaboration about it as possible to verify your findings. A therapist can help with that as it helped me. Dostoevsky also did good character studies on people through his books or viktor frankls the meaning of life.

TheSmearedPen

@twistedrope losing faith isn't the same as hating. You're probably right but we're not all at the same level of healing and it goes back and forth. I'm doing the hobby thing as it is now and see how it works out.