Continuing to live is the easiest thing
r/Pessimism, u/ETerribleT
[…] This culture attributes some weird strength to continuing to live when it is one of the easiest things in fact, to irrationally continue to bear with the senseless suffering. Why of course we’ve been selected for it for billions of years.
(ed. and so, the only thing that people can do is to smoke and drink, because it’s easy in the short term, but it helps you a bit with dying sooner)
The truth is that the strongest of us are those who both recognise this disorder in reality and act on it i.e., commit suicide. Any suicidal person will tell you, like I was during my worst weeks, that it’s a strong, almost respectable thing to actually take it to fruition, to take your leave from the mindless propelling of the Will to life. To continue to live is to continue to be a pawn to the Will. Of course, as a final fuck-you, the Will gets the last laugh again, by causing extra suffering to your loved ones after you take your leave. There is no winning, there is no begging for a draw either.