Is human existence suffering?
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Let me start by first explaining that I'm stupid. I understand that this topic has been already discussed here, but there's a great chance that they were lost to the sands of time, and I don't know how to look for specific posts. <br><br>Anyway, first to my point. I don't know how you people do it. I'm sorry to say this, but I don't believe that I am too entitled for making this assumption, I don't think that you're feeling anything but suffering during your existence. <br><br>From the moment that you're born. You feel pain, you're squeezed through a tunnel. When you're growing up, your chances of having a happy life are heavily dependent on your environment. How you're being treated by your family, how educated you are, how good is your health and so on. <br><br>And then it only gets worse. When you grow up, you're automatically thrown into the competitive environment of the society that you're living in. You need to work until you die, you need to be better than the other, and you need to have a high social status and reputation. And all of that for what? Just so that you can survive. <br><br>Everybody is reaching for something, but nobody knows what they're really looking for. The only thing that everybody of us know, is that death is inevitable, and that's what make us so anxious. We're trying to rush to find happiness, to feel pleasure. Everyone of us rush to complete those milestones, like getting a good job, getting married, having kids. We are rushing through the journey of life, and I don't know if you people are feeling something that I don't. Now, I know that I'm sounding like a very bitter and resentful person. But the fact that we don't have a choice in this, and that we all been forced into this existence makes me angry. <br><br>I don't think that you people agree with me. I don't think that I'm the only person who sees life as something like this. But I'm still seeing people being happy about it, they find joy and happiness in it. But I'm not. I've never been so stressed and anxious, I've never cryed as much as I did these last 4 years. And I don't understand why... I have everything that I need, I have food, I have a place to live, I'm safe, I'm healthy, and I have people around me that I love. I have everything that I need in order to survive, I have everything that the human needs in order to feel pleasure, I have everything. I don't understand why. Am I the only person that thinks like this, am I am defective item?
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