[Discussion] What makes life difficult at times? Personally.

[theRPGdude]

We already know what's going on. We see it every freaking day! It happens right under are noses! What's going on?

Famine is the term given to an extreme shortage of food. In a world of such huge wealth imbalances. It would only be expected that there would also be a huge food imbalance too.

Homelessness,it is estimated that about 100,000,000 people are homeless in the world.

Arguably the largest problem in the world at the moment is the wealth imbalance across the globe.

Wars and Anthropogenic Disasters (human caused disasters) Wars and life costing regimes are often a result of human vices such as selfishness, ignorance and paranoia.

Disease.

All discrimination such as racism, sexism, ageism and intolerance to differing sexualities and disabilities should also be mentioned when referring to problems with the world.

Human Vices Such as laziness, selfishness, ignorance and hatred are also worth mentioning but however are difficult to quantify and predict

Why state this when we practically know what's going on? Cause what matters in this world is surviving. The media and social networks don't help anything and have hidden truths within the truth. We struggle to live in this world. While others are benifiting from our struggles. We are living in harsh times. Why else do we have locks and security cameras on our door steps. We live in fear. We live in detrementle times. We can only take care of the people we love or rely on ourselves cause no one knows what really is gonna happen next.

Others have tried to make the world better and have failed.

 

[tearHere]

no money no honey

 

[TruthLover19]

Not knowing where home is. (yukimaru)

 

[soyeongun]

Overcome it, or deny its existence...

 

[Unbiased]

Not knowing where home is. (yukimaru)

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[The Alchemist]

Actually we aren't living in that harsh a time period just one where people are starting to wake up and despise the way we are so vastly unevolved. Look back at history and you'll find much worse conditions but I get where you're coming from, we have all of this technology and have made such progress yet we seem to only have moved a couple spaces on the board. It's frustrating to say the least but you forgot to mention the religious stupidity of the vast world. Religion is what has given us this false sense of security telling us there is a better place after this life, but where is the proof of that? Nowhere that's where. We lie to ourselves daily and ignore the truth staring us in the face but I believe that my generation and the one that follows will spark the greatest revolution known to man. We already see hints of it throughout the world, we just have to keep it going.

 

[Aim64C]

What makes life difficult?

When you focus too much on what others have and not enough on what it is that you can do to improve your own quality of life.

Are there injustices in the world? Certainly. Four days before I turned 19, I lost my mother. I can get into the ways that government laws designed to "protect the consumer" radically and needlessly limited the treatments doctors could legally use for her cancer... but that would be a bit off-topic. There's no guarantee that those would have worked.

A month and a half before I turned 22, I was fatherless with two younger brothers, both minors. At that same time, I was going through a relationship crisis - my most serious and hopefilled relationship was going down the tubes. My grandmother passed away two months before my mother (from the same rare type of cancer linked to contamination of the ground water where they lived).

You can bet suicide came to mind. Not sure if I was too much of a pansy to go through with it or simply too strong to die - the argument can be made for either case.

And you gain a perspective. Nothing that happened to my parents was fair. My father literally worked himself to death for us kids. All he wanted after surviving Vietnam was to have a family that shared love and respect for each other. He barely got ten years to enjoy that (the latter part of that was threatened by shifts in the economy with the mass exodus of industry from the U.S.) before my mother contracted the cancer that systematically disassembled that dream.

He loved my mother. My mother loved him. Both of them loved us and were there for us in ways that I only began to appreciate when I noticed how other parents acted toward their kids.

So what should be done to correct that? Government aid programs? Blaming insurance companies for, what, I don't know?

I'll admit to some selfishness. When you're hurting and the world you knew has come to an end - you really want others to stop and acknowledge how you feel and to have attention paid to you. A little bit of that is natural and okay... but it's easy to get caught in a cycle where you try and live pity-party to pity-party on the graces of the people moved by your tale of woe.

Even now - I selfishly evoke the terms of my parents' passing to convey a point.

But there came a time when I was hit by a realization. I was sitting in my room, taking a brief moment to imagine what it would be like to have parents to call up at that moment... when it hit me. All I can do is imagine what it would be like. I don't know what it would be like. Therefor, any time I allow myself to get upset or to feel slighted by life - it's really all in my head. Everything I feel I'm missing out on is a delusion.

So, you know - there are obstacles in life. Always will be. But I'm the son of my parents - their genetic legacy and the combination of their strengths (or I like to think so). They taught me many of the things they knew, and saw to it that they prepared me for the world as best they could. They did just fine in the world - and I am one of their three 'products' of a process designed to develop a new generation superior to the former (being a bit melodramatic here).

I'm more than adequately equipped to handle anything the world can throw my way. When finances are tight - you have to work your social networks. When jobs are rare, you'd best get creative. If you can do it better on your own - by all means, do so (and wile your way around the laws constructed to stifle start-ups that cut into shares of an established market).

Doesn't mean we can't help each other out. But I think far too many people have gotten into this mentality that a person's existence should be preserved at cost to society. And that's simply not how the natural world works.

 

[Mottle]

This is how you deal with it xd

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[~Sky~]

The most difficult thing about life are the people who make it difficult.

Pessimists who always make claims to the world being an awful place. The world is what it is, like it or not. There will always be bad, and there will always be good. Pessimists only contribute to the bad, even if they have good intentions.


And if you want my advice, quit sitting around afraid of what will happen next. Just be thankful you're even alive. Life is a gift that more often than not, is wasted.

Find a way to enjoy what you have. Learn to deal with the card you're dealt. Just be happy man.

 

[Aim64C]

Actually we aren't living in that harsh a time period just one where people are starting to wake up and despise the way we are so vastly unevolved. Look back at history and you'll find much worse conditions but I get where you're coming from, we have all of this technology and have made such progress yet we seem to only have moved a couple spaces on the board.

... Toward what?

A world where no one suffers? Where existence entitles a quality of life?

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Too few people understand what evolution really is.

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The survival of individuals through history echoes through our genetic code, today. Humans, as a species, don't evolve. Individuals survive through luck or genetic superiority. It is their descendants that later become the human species.

Evolution isn't competition against other species. It's competition amongst a species - the inherently selfish demand of genetic code to replicate successfully.

It's frustrating to say the least but you forgot to mention the religious stupidity of the vast world. Religion is what has given us this false sense of security telling us there is a better place after this life, but where is the proof of that? Nowhere that's where.

Religion is a human institution. Humans, on the aggregate, are creatures too arrogant to recognize their own stupidity. Spiritualism is another subject - but it's really a distinction that's unlikely to be viewed as important by someone of your opinion.

There is, however, danger in applying too much value to the material world we live in. Our lives are brief in the grand scheme of things. Decisions we make regarding the systems of society will have an impact on people long after decisions that benefited us have run their course (and may very well be hampering the efforts of future generations). Focusing far too much on the here and now can be just as bad as trying to live life for the postmortem.

We lie to ourselves daily and ignore the truth staring us in the face but I believe that my generation and the one that follows will spark the greatest revolution known to man. We already see hints of it throughout the world, we just have to keep it going.

Oh joy. Another group of people who want to tell me how things will be great if everyone does what they say without deviating from their perfect plan.

That form of enlightenment has never really appealed to me.

 

[cptenn94]

i dont mean to come across as ignorant, but there are many of those people that still live happy lives. I personally try to be a nice and kind person where ever i go, and i help out with people less fortunate than me. In a period of less than 5 years, im sure if i logged it, i would have hundreds of service hours, volunteering my time.

But yes those are problems, but solving them by forceing people to give, will not change any thing. If the world will change, it needs to change on its own willingly. Simply we must grow to love and help each other with our own will. That is how you end the worlds problems




On a slightly political note, i am getting sick of all this labeling people as racist and all that stuff that the media does, when they accuse someone of being one themselves

(prime example, people who disagree with Obamas policies, are labeled as racist, ignorant. If those people are black, then they are labeled as a disgrace to their race. Which is very racist.)

Btw it isnt racist to call a black man a black man. While it is better to use just a man, the word is not racist.
It is the context. but one quote i can agree with morgan freeman on, is "the way to fix racism is to stop talking about it"
hes a epic actor, but irl, he says many things i dont agree with. But that i do.


srry for my rant, just wanted to get it out of my system....my main point is underlined.

 

[Scooby Doo]

Too complex...we are just animals figthing for survival and our own interests. In brief, that's why life is difficult. Bilogical necessities...cannot be helped...

 

[Hippy]

Hatred is the key to existence >=0! lol nah but on a serious note what really grinds my gears is living in a world where people who saves lives get paid 10-13 start (EMT), teachers get paid 11.00 while a bachelor degree while people who can make a ball go into a hoop or over a goal makes millions..I think that's crazy.

 

[UchihaBrat]

I believe there is more to it than just surviving, simple things, such as surviving in a 'good' way, caring etc., much of it is subjective really. Generalisations often fail because they usually don't take into account the small differences that actually matter.

Anyway, about the try and fail thing; I see it differently as I believe it to be ongoing, post mortem even for some whom talked about it, recorded what they believed through various means. Just take the bible or whichever peacefully inclined book. As long as people read it, believe or practice what is written or whatever, it is ongoing. Try and fail exists in these matters because people do not comprehend that that isn't the case, they are far too sceptic, to the point of keeping themselves from understanding.