Too much suffering in life

JD_INCINERATOR
JD_INCINERATOR Online Community Member Posts: 20 Contributor

Whether it's my personal suffering or the suffering of other people, I think we endure too much of it. I always want children to be happy and healthy, but we know a few won't make it through to adult life. I know it's very sad to think this sort of thing, but it also makes me feel very fortunate that I am here now, and that we're here at all. I think many of us don't realize how life is a phenomenon to begin with, and that being here at all is a gift.

We all like to say he was too young to perish or that they lived a good long life, but the reality is we live in accordance with whatever amalgamation of matter and influence dictates our longevity. Moments are what matter infinitely more than length ever will.

The issue is when we hold so much dear to us that we want everyone to be as healthy as possible, but we know life's hourglass sand will run out eventually. What we're left with is the memories and that we've got to ensure that those are preserved, if of course we think they should be.

I personally don't much care about whether I'm remembered. I've persevered through so much like many of us do, but when your childhood is set up to be so lovely and carefree for all of that to collapse, it really shows us how ugly and deceptive life can be in this culture of ours. However, you could look at things with optimism and think everything is brilliant, which is an ideal way to be, but when you've been stomped down so much by your disability and other people defining you by it, then it really does show that there might just be no way out.

People have labelled me as "disabled" although I can walk, but now as an adult in his 30s I see what they meant, I'm disabled from doing what I want because there are barriers everywhere including in my own head.

I love people and making friends, but friendships are becoming malleable and unreliable, so all that's left is me, and whether I feel I'm good enough and strong enough to keep going. I feel as though I am strong enough, but this place in these times are trying to convince me that I don't belong-so do I give in, or just keep going? Sounds like an easy answer, but people's behaviour and my circumstances are trying to sway me in a direction, but I continue to battle through because that's what I know how to do, and I'm sure many of us do the same thing.

Sorry for a lengthy post, but I just wanted to convey my thoughts here. Please reply with anything you wish to say.

Comments

  • johnron
    johnron Online Community Member Posts: 71 Contributor

    It's like no one cares about us getting hit from all angles we have rights to live normal life we need to fight back way all we got mate

  • mawempathy
    mawempathy Online Community Member Posts: 75 Empowering

    I've been fighting too long. I'm ready to hang up my gloves.

  • RedEarth
    RedEarth Online Community Member Posts: 64 Connected

    I used wish for life like that but reality is harsh. I look at nature and is cruel or practical that I wouldn't even exist. But for humanity I do in this country, but in others I would be dust. Life is unfair, its a gamble, everytime you have roll that dice, you pray, wish for a better out come. I feel selfish as I'm lucky compared to so many other people. But what is fair?

  • Littlefatfriend
    Littlefatfriend Online Community Member Posts: 121 Empowering

    I like that your first paragraph recognises the gift that life is JD. Despite all the trouble it sometimes involves.

    Often in spite of how unlikely it is we've avoided a nuclear holocaust. That's a bonus!

    Eventually we may only hope to be remembered, much like Egyptian pharaohs.

    I have a lot of respect for your choice, we've all been "stomped down". Please even if it's only within ourselves things may get better. It's a big old world particularly enabled by the interweb.

    35 years ago (aged 17) I completely paralysed myself at T4 with a motorbike. I consider myself such because that's how I am. Life happens. It's a process of barriers and each of them could be mounted. I have a very happy and rewarding life.

    Unfortunately it occasionally begins with things you cannot do but they may lead to things you can.

    Good luck

  • anisty
    anisty Online Community Member Posts: 802 Trailblazing

    Other way about for me (although i am not a disabled person)

    Had a tough childhood. Domestic violence. Very unstable. No money.

    My mum fell ill when i was 14, my brother 12. My dad worked away a lot so i really had very little parenting from 14 and a lot of responsibility.

    Fortunately, this was early 80s when there were grants for higher education.

    My mum kept getting fobbed off by doctors and told her pain was all in her head. She said it was unbearable and she was going to end her life.

    I was very fortunate in getting into a uni hundreds of miles from my home town. I was on a course and in uni accomodation when my mum died.

    My dad closed up our house and set up with an alcoholic woman.

    My brother didn't fare so well and had a life of homelessness but i never looked back and my adult life is far, far easier than my childhood.

    In fact, i really believe my tough start gave me a lot of resilience. I felt in control of my own life as an adult. I was helpless as a child. I was a very worried and frightened little girl as a small child. I started to see a way out as i got older. I loved school as it was a bit of normal.