Why do you hate your life?

[Zantos]

The girl that I want to be with and wants to be with me, and everyone's convinced we're together anyway is actually in a long-term relationship with a guy who's only about 6% as awesome as me. But no time for self-pity, it's time to ramp up the awesome! Now, where's my suit...

 

[Wieke]

My academic & social skills leave quite a lot to be desired.

But hate is such a big word.

(Also Tim Minchin ftw!)

 

[Sassafrass]

Reasons I hate my life, er...I've got a sore throat and thumping headache?
That's the only reason I can find to hate my life, really. ...Yeah, I love my life, really.

 

[everfreeDragon]

Why should I hate my life?
If not hating my own life is an invalid response I'd like to understand the reasoning behind it.


Edit: fixed a word.

 

[Levethian]

I hate my life a little bit. There are too many expectations on me to be someone I'm not.

The 'forbidden love' stage of life will pass. I think I was in that stage for 6-7 years, but relationship status is all good now.

(I don't hate my life is not a valid response)

...why not?

Presumably he's inviting people to talk about hating some aspect of their life.
Exuding enthusiasm for life in this thread is simply off-topic.

When I think about the millions of people around the world who have none of those things, then I see that I have no reason to hate my life at all.

Not everyone is as broad-minded as you. Most people measure their quality of life by their own standards (constructed from the lives of those around them), not by the standards of starving African children on the brink of death.

 

[Susan Arendt]

If it makes you feel any better, OP, just about everyone you speak with has gone through something similar to what you're going through right now. Seriously. You're not at all alone. Also, most people, if they're being honest with themselves, are attracted to someone of their gender at least once in their lives. It's not a big whoop, so don't let it mess with your head too much.

And I don't hate my life at all. Used to, a few years ago, but then I took ownership of the fact that my happiness was not other people's responsibility - it's up to me. Things got rather better once I stopped looking to other people for a reason to get up in the morning. People can add to your happiness, but they can't be your sole source of it.

 

[Levethian]

Thread title: "Why do you hate your life?"

12-ish responses; "But... I don't!"

>Then this thread probably isn't aimed at you. Do some users have to post in every thread?

Imagine a thread title: "Why do you live in Canada?"

Innumerable responses; "But... I don't!"

Great. Then why post?


Oooh that was potentially my rantiest post yet...

 

[Lionsfan]

I don't hate my life in general.But sometimes I feel upset from it due to liars
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Holy shit the spammers are getting smarter.....


And to answer you're question OP, I don't necessarily hate my life, but it's not fun[footnote]And yes I know other people have it worse blah blah blah, obviously this is a 1st World Problems type of thing[/footnote]. I hate that I have to work 4-5 jobs to stay afloat, while all my old high school classmates are riding on their parents money coat-tails to attend school. And yeah some of them are definitely working hard, but they're getting all these new experiences[footnote]For instance this one girl I know is going to be working in Chicago next summer because her dad knew a guy in an ad company[/footnote] due to the fact that they have parental connections. And I can never get enough sleep, but that's about it; not too bad but not peaches and gravy

 

[Palademon]

Well I don't hate my life.
My life's just really uneventful, so I hate that.

 

[Fappy]

I didn't know I hated my life. I guess you learn something news everyday.

 

[manic_depressive13]

You know what? I'm genuinely surprised by how many Escapists we have that are pretty damn happy. Especially on a big ass emo-bait thread like this!

Ha! More like genuinely surprised at how many Escapists are trolls. This guy is clearly looking for some empathy, consolation, and perhaps some advice. He specifically asks people not to bother posting if all they're going to do is rub their happiness in his face, and what do you get? The majority of posters saying "HURR BUT I LOVE MY LIFE I'M SO HAPPY I COULD VOMIT RAINBOWS." It's quite amusing really, in a depressing sort of way.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Eh, I'm just going to copy and paste something I wrote on a similar-ish thread that sort of sums it up:

I hate being alone, I hate social interaction, I hate most other people I encounter, I hate myself, I hate my damn near perennial state of malaise, I hate my indolence, I hate my paralysing fear of opening up to others, I hate my paranoia, I hate knowing that my problems pail in comparison to what millions of others have to suffer through and still being too pathetic and weak to see the bright side of my own and stop complaining about them, I hate how fragile I am, I hate the ever increasing feeling that no-one will ever really know or understand me, I hate being aware that this is my fault, I hate to think of my future and how bleak it appears to be, I hate that my cowardice is the only thing that keeps me alive, I hate the inexorable sense of superiority anyone who bothers reading through this self deprecating tripe will probably feel, I hate knowing that some of them will actually be right, I hate being such a worthless hateful wretch of a person, I hate how much time I wasted writing this shit, I hate the lack of catharsis it's given me. I hate a lot of things...and I hate that this is the case.

Basically, my life is like me bland, lonely, pathetic etc. Fuck it, at least it's Christmas, that'll briefly keep me happy and I always love hearing this song, this time of year:


Merry Christmas, my fellow miserable bastards of the Escapist, (yep, I'm aware I'm going wildly off topic, but fuck it it's Christmas).

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Well, I am a walking cliché. I got dumped, I don't actually like my friends and I'm failing academically. Fucking great!

Oh, and I've started going bald. Brilliant!

 

[Fappy]

People can add to your happiness, but they can't be your sole source of it.

No, that of course is the sole responsibility of an entirely different species:

 

[Faladorian]

Happiness is a defense mechanism used by naive people to convince themselves that the world isn't the burning shitball that it truly is.

There is no happiness, only ignorance. Saying you're happy makes you ignorant, knowing about the world and being content with it makes you a sociopath. Realizing the world is a piece of shit full of billions of walking pieces of shit and making the best of it... that's realism. The only respectable option of the three.

OT: There are hardly any things that I hate anymore. If something isn't that bad, then there's no reason to hate it. If something about life is shitty, I'm not surprised in the slightest, and it hardly affects me. It's useful to not have a fragile mind.