You ever feel like life no longer feels like a gift, but like..

yuh, since I was about 8, I realised I was in a stinking prison surrounded by psycho 'guards' whose job it was to convince me that I was not in a stinking prison.

Yes! Thats a great analogy!

I'll add
And all the while just trying to get through each day without getting shanked!

Yep. Living on this planet, I feel like a fish in a field of cows. That poster above has nailed it. People get all excited because they changed the wallpaper in their cell, or got a new carpet, and I say, 'That's nice', but I'm thinking, 'But it's still a prison!!'

I'm actually excited about a ww3; never has a world more needed a cleanse. And yes, I am happy to be one of the swept-away. A few nice trees and sunsets don't make earth 'paradise.'

What are you talking about? Look at how our music is improving with society!

You're here because to people fucked.... the same as most of earths other species...

Don't over complicate it

"Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's going to die, come watch TV."

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Life never felt like a gift for me.
Having a shitty childhood and severe anxiety that prevented me from living a normal life was no fun.

Adapt.

If you shut off all the bs theatre and just enjoyed life without the Internet propaganda war zone you'd probably feel better.

The comments in this thread are brilliant; they really are.

Excellent thread, OP...despite how somber the subject matter is, it's nice to hear from people who are on the same wavelength.

I feel you op. I feel that we're here to be used as batteries for demons and as commodities for powerful humans. It's all bs no matter what they tell us. We are being slowly torture so that higher beings can feed off our energy

I have come to the same conclusion myself.

This is depressing to say the least.

I think one of our most unrealistic views
is to avoid all suffering, when to embrace it
would be more growth-enhancing, at times.

The impulse to only allow feeling good can
be inauthentic if we have pressing concerns we
avoid in order to feel good all the time. It
can be a tyranny. Sometimes the quickest way
is to embrace the sorrow. Grace seems to flow
from being real, in my experience.

Yes, but don't be a victim.

Build something.

You can always build something and it makes you realize what you can do.

I think we are here to build, create...have a vision and make something. Even if on a napkin, you can create art. But you don't have to create art...you can create a house of your choosing based on what you know how to do.

I have no training and I have built gazebos, decks, and do my own repairs at home. I am much more depressed by being a slave to a desk where I can't get outside and just build.

But you need money to build, so there is that...

A prison only becomes imposing when you realize those walls.
This inmate is having a grand time.
Three hots and a cot.

Btw.... if you live in New York it might as well be a prison unless you're upstate