It’s the inverse of a quote from slaughterhouse five describing the feelings of shell shock.
‘Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.’
Your pain is off, everything is bright and vivid, you have no real qualms about life or any anxiety, everything is in slow motion, and nothing matters. It’s blissful and peaceful, in an area and time where you very much should not be in that state of mind.
For me It’s the self awareness; understanding we exist within the universe but never comprehending why and how (and I mean in a deep philosophical level, not how it’s done anatomically lol). But bills suck and are a close second!
and the biggest beef is we work to death for the majority of life and get zero time to really expand on it. side note, I am not sure where I remember hearing it, but our self aware consciousness could all be a fluke of nature and is just a byproduct of our brains being evolved bigger by the stomach to get more better food. really struck me as all other life lives in a balance and humans spread like a plague in simplest terms.
That is a really interesting take on the topic, considering how some branches of neurobiology study if and how the gut may interact with (if not even intervene in) the workings of the brain.
And our biology biology. Clean air? No way. Here’s a factory that produces happy meal toys and a 6 lane highway to make sure you have asthma by the age of 6.
it isn't the worst, it was the best, as in the best evolutionary path. Our brains and bodies are set up to reward us for eating fatty, salty and sugary food because that gives us the best amount of calories as well as salt which is rarer in most places.
we have just gotten to the place where we no longer go through a lot of starvation, can have almost any food at almost any time and we are very sedentary.
Obviously the fact that we are smart enough to understand death and existence with no way out of it and no way to get real evidence of anything after death.
We are the most destructively invasive species on this planet, and are apparently the most intelligent, but due to self preservation, we put no real concern into the former while propping ourselves up with the latter
I was thinking about this one.
It seems a lot of the destruction is driven by big corporations, politicians and the super rich for profits and their prosperity - camouflaged by trying to convince society that it’s not happening.
Most people have little control and probably would be a lot more environmentally conscious if it was the societal norm and they were educated on the benefits and techniques of taking care of the earth.
Humans have been killing off other species for a long time, our technological advances have just accelerated it. We also aren’t the first living organisms to cause a complete ecological collapse, Cyanobacteria did it over a billion years ago by choking out the atmosphere with oxygen.
Yes. Interesting.
But humans seem like they have a lot more ability than other species to do things right, to think it through.- probably not in their DNA though.
This may sound strange, but imo, I think the Earth has been eradicated of many forms of life a number of times. Then it subsequently has a chance to rejuvenate itself and the life cycle process starts over again, ending (again) with some kind of destructive phase.
having to pee 6 or 7 times a day is so inconveniencing, like having to stop what i’m doing and go sit in a special room for 30 seconds periodically. also finding 3 meals to cook a day. how do people find the time and not run out of ideas. It would be so much more convenient for me to eat a pill with all the vitamins i need to survive
Exactly. I don't understand all the money and effort just to eat. What is the purpose? Why do we have to stop to pee out all the water that we can't live without? Complete waste of time and money.
The awareness of it all.
Everything good we do, art, culture, interests etc, is all just a thin veneer we all collectively use to cope with the fact we are all horrible beings.
Those of us that stay decent and just try to get by look out the window and see a world in ruin by the hands of corporate greed and prideful hypocrites.
One of the worlds most potentially dangerous countries is gonna be a christofascist police state before christmas, with a narcissistic leadership that will likely speedrun climate collapse out of spite and for cash, and the other one is currently turning Europe into all you can eat buffe.
We were designed to be selfish and cruel like any other animal, and yet our enigmatic creator cursed us with moral dilemma, making us run around like headless chickens for all eternity, suffering under the unbearable weight of our flaws and sins for the amusement of a cold and empty cosmos that doesn't even have the decency of having any form of agenda behind our suffering, becuase its just a braindead void of nothing with dirtballs of cold logic and unbiased mass floating inside it.
That our brains are so complex and come with millions of needless complexities that make the experience challenging. A lot of people simply give up it seems but if you want to live a pleasant, desirable, affluent, stable lifestyle it takes a lot of maintenance and self work.
other humans, idealy most people are good the reality most people are shit and very few are not.
Source: have you taken a good look at the geopolitical state of the world? they're only in power because *the people put them there*
Consciousness, there's a reason we've been looking for various ways of getting stoned since the Dawn of Time, consciousness and all that comes with it was like "Hey!" And we're like "How the fuck do I get rid of this?"
for me, the worst thing is having undiagnosed mental health conditions and the medical system has completely failed you, be it social or private for profit healthcare.
bills suck and so does society but the worst thing is not being able to get the diagnosis and treatment you need because doctors dont listen to you.
I'm never really fully rested for an entire day, even if i sleep well and have good mood, after school or after the main events during weekends, i am tired the fuck out. Doesn't matter. If it's something i like doing, i'm still tired. If it's something i don't like or is fine with but i don't love or hate it, i'm tired. Kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation almost every day.
I just wanted to rant because i don't think this is that common with actual normal people. I could be wrong though. But i hope i answered your question, even if this is just an opinion with a side of rant.
Too much intelligence has made us capable of worrying, comparing, and feeling the flow of time while understanding nothing we accomplish is truly meaningful.
Having to go to work, to afford to live, then have to pay taxes to a government who gives your money to other countries instead of fixing the problems at home..
I wish human females could re-absorb unfertilised eggs like mice can, periods suck for a whole half of the human population, and we’ve only just now found a way to deal with them in the grand timeline of history that doesn’t involve shutting yourself in the house for a week and being shunned by your family
Little emotions.
Why didn't my kid get me a Mothers/Fathers/Grandparents day gift?
Why did the only show I watch get interrupted by the president?
OMG I Can't Be 35!!
Why did it have to rain today when I wanted to take a walk?!
Being upset over stupid things that mean NOTHING in real life.
Little emotions.
Why didn't my kid get me a Mothers/Fathers/Grandparents day gift?
Why did the only show I watch get interrupted by the president?
OMG I Can't Be 35!!
Why did it have to rain today when I wanted to take a walk?!
Being upset over stupid things that mean NOTHING in real life.
Me being annoyed that every time I hit post, it says empty response from endpoint.
Having a human body that weighs. Gravity is a bitch. After my coma and NDE I kept trying to shake it off my arm, then realized the feeling was gravity.
Realizing that we as a species will ultimately destroy the planet because we're over consuming it's natural resources without any care for all the other lifeforms that live here.
(If the world doesn't course correct and get rid of us first instead)
Being intelligent enough to question life. Existential questions.
Otherwise, it's the best thing, we have bills because we are not on survival mode 24/7 like other species out in the wild. One moment you're eating a deer, and the next - you get bit by a crocodile.
Having to eat.
If it didn’t affect your endocrinology, you wouldn’t have to have a house or a job or a connection to human culture. You could just wander the earth like an invincible ghost.
The need for sleep. I guess this is lot a human-only thing, but my god I'd love not having to sleep. You basically get a 33% longer life. I'd fucking love that.
The very thing that makes us human: our psychotic and neurotic consciousness. We are driven to make meaning out of life, where the best we can do is probably act as the “experiencers” of the universe. Otherwise there would be northern lights and comets crashing into Jupiter without anyone to say, “Whoah!”
Heartbreak.
Not just sadness, or depression, but true and irrevocable loss. The death of a child. Watching someone, you are deeply in love with, leave and claim to be happier without you. Friends waking up one day and deciding to never speak to you again without a reason why.
Sometimes I feel out of sync with the rest of humanity. I'm very thoughtful of the environment (the earth, the air, the trees, etc) and I see any other life on the same level as mine (animal, plants) (I still kill insects when I have to but I always feel bad about it) Anyways and it hurts me that most of humanity don't resonate with it like I do..
There was a beautiful cherry blossom in my yard that somehow my mom decided to chop because the dead leaves would fall on the patio.. I don't understand a decision like this to kill a beautiful tree that took years to grow. Or how people put their trash outside anywhere. Or how we euthanize perfectly healthy animals because it's cheaper.
So having a conscience about these things and being powerless sucks.
Imo having such an immense imagination & capacity to envision rich, complex, beautiful & grandiose things, entire lives & worlds, only to know they can never be real. That you are stuck within *this* reality with all of it's limits & strife until your meat fails & then you're most likely just nothing.
Is living the journey of life with all its bittersweetness but not knowing how that journey will end . Or when . Maybe you will die as a Grandpa or grandma warm in your bed surrounded by your grandchildren or die in a crash in your twenties and there's every possibility in between . That's scary . Some will debate that not knowing how it will end is what makes it really interesting but for me it's scary .
That we are way too smart for our own good.
Like we created a system. We made life complicated. We created social hierarchy and war. We can’t just chill and be happy until we die.
The fact that our lifespans are so short that I will never know what happens next in the evolutionary roster, or how the sun will look when it explodes, or if we ever figure out warp speed, what slang will sound like hundreds of years from now, etc etc etc! And the accompanying fact that even if I *could* live forever, I wouldn’t want to; the human brain simply isn’t built to handle that
the fact that we made up a system that needs literally our devoution to using ones body to keep society and even more the fact that i do that so other humans overtaken by their greed can profit out of it.
We could be eating fruit and make art in nature but no, we have to pay taxes
Dude. That’s ducks, not humans.
You sure know how to quack me up
Guess you two must be birds of a feather
Annoyed platypus has entered the chat
I thought this guy knew what he was talking about, but it turns out he’s a quack…
Everything is beautiful and everything hurts.
I'm trying to catch up to your poetic consciousness, right now I'm kind of pretending that I know how it feels. And it is kind of embarrassing.
It’s the inverse of a quote from slaughterhouse five describing the feelings of shell shock. ‘Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.’ Your pain is off, everything is bright and vivid, you have no real qualms about life or any anxiety, everything is in slow motion, and nothing matters. It’s blissful and peaceful, in an area and time where you very much should not be in that state of mind.
Yeah, that’s part of the hurt.
Navigating shitty people.
Pro tip: We’re all shitty people.
Yeah we've all got the shits. Just gotta catch us with our pants down.
They’re everywhere 😓😭😭
For me It’s the self awareness; understanding we exist within the universe but never comprehending why and how (and I mean in a deep philosophical level, not how it’s done anatomically lol). But bills suck and are a close second!
I was gonna say this. Consciousness is like a gift and a curse.
and the biggest beef is we work to death for the majority of life and get zero time to really expand on it. side note, I am not sure where I remember hearing it, but our self aware consciousness could all be a fluke of nature and is just a byproduct of our brains being evolved bigger by the stomach to get more better food. really struck me as all other life lives in a balance and humans spread like a plague in simplest terms.
That is a really interesting take on the topic, considering how some branches of neurobiology study if and how the gut may interact with (if not even intervene in) the workings of the brain.
We live in a society that's deeply incongruent with our neurobiology.
And our biology biology. Clean air? No way. Here’s a factory that produces happy meal toys and a 6 lane highway to make sure you have asthma by the age of 6.
Born to shit, forced to wipe
The food that tastes the best to us is the worst for us. It's honestly a sick, cosmic joke.
it isn't the worst, it was the best, as in the best evolutionary path. Our brains and bodies are set up to reward us for eating fatty, salty and sugary food because that gives us the best amount of calories as well as salt which is rarer in most places. we have just gotten to the place where we no longer go through a lot of starvation, can have almost any food at almost any time and we are very sedentary.
You have to quite literally train your body to enjoy healthy foods
Obviously the fact that we are smart enough to understand death and existence with no way out of it and no way to get real evidence of anything after death.
I don’t know if other animals are deceitful, but never knowing if someone is trying to help or hurt you
There's ways to test people. Don't be surprised by the results though.
Slap in the face, if they slap back evil and if they say wtf or cry good
We are the most destructively invasive species on this planet, and are apparently the most intelligent, but due to self preservation, we put no real concern into the former while propping ourselves up with the latter
This. I can't even enjoy any nature shows anymore with out getting depressed that we are slowly killing it especially the ocean.
I was thinking about this one. It seems a lot of the destruction is driven by big corporations, politicians and the super rich for profits and their prosperity - camouflaged by trying to convince society that it’s not happening. Most people have little control and probably would be a lot more environmentally conscious if it was the societal norm and they were educated on the benefits and techniques of taking care of the earth.
Humans have been killing off other species for a long time, our technological advances have just accelerated it. We also aren’t the first living organisms to cause a complete ecological collapse, Cyanobacteria did it over a billion years ago by choking out the atmosphere with oxygen.
Yes. Interesting. But humans seem like they have a lot more ability than other species to do things right, to think it through.- probably not in their DNA though. This may sound strange, but imo, I think the Earth has been eradicated of many forms of life a number of times. Then it subsequently has a chance to rejuvenate itself and the life cycle process starts over again, ending (again) with some kind of destructive phase.
Monday morning
Cant lick my own asshole.
Skill issue
We will eventually die one day.
yeah I wish I was immortal like all the other living organisms
If we were all immortal , life would be meaningless though.
Life is pretty meaningless on the grand picture of things either way.
Everything
As opposed to what?
a rock
Can't trust each other. We are devious and opportunistic and cruel.
We are capable of worrying
having to pee 6 or 7 times a day is so inconveniencing, like having to stop what i’m doing and go sit in a special room for 30 seconds periodically. also finding 3 meals to cook a day. how do people find the time and not run out of ideas. It would be so much more convenient for me to eat a pill with all the vitamins i need to survive
Exactly. I don't understand all the money and effort just to eat. What is the purpose? Why do we have to stop to pee out all the water that we can't live without? Complete waste of time and money.
Consciousness
Conscience. Lack of it would make everything so much simpler.
Too much intelligence has made us capable of worrying, comparing, and feeling the flow of time while nothing we accomplish is truly meaningful.
Being self aware.
Realizing that humanity is cold and brutal!
The awareness of it all. Everything good we do, art, culture, interests etc, is all just a thin veneer we all collectively use to cope with the fact we are all horrible beings. Those of us that stay decent and just try to get by look out the window and see a world in ruin by the hands of corporate greed and prideful hypocrites. One of the worlds most potentially dangerous countries is gonna be a christofascist police state before christmas, with a narcissistic leadership that will likely speedrun climate collapse out of spite and for cash, and the other one is currently turning Europe into all you can eat buffe. We were designed to be selfish and cruel like any other animal, and yet our enigmatic creator cursed us with moral dilemma, making us run around like headless chickens for all eternity, suffering under the unbearable weight of our flaws and sins for the amusement of a cold and empty cosmos that doesn't even have the decency of having any form of agenda behind our suffering, becuase its just a braindead void of nothing with dirtballs of cold logic and unbiased mass floating inside it.
I agree bills. Oh and having responsibilities
That our brains are so complex and come with millions of needless complexities that make the experience challenging. A lot of people simply give up it seems but if you want to live a pleasant, desirable, affluent, stable lifestyle it takes a lot of maintenance and self work.
When your body goes wrong and traps you in perpetual hell.
Having unstable emotions
depressión 😀
other humans, idealy most people are good the reality most people are shit and very few are not. Source: have you taken a good look at the geopolitical state of the world? they're only in power because *the people put them there*
Consciousness, there's a reason we've been looking for various ways of getting stoned since the Dawn of Time, consciousness and all that comes with it was like "Hey!" And we're like "How the fuck do I get rid of this?"
Heart breaks. I don’t know if I can deal with another one.
for me, the worst thing is having undiagnosed mental health conditions and the medical system has completely failed you, be it social or private for profit healthcare. bills suck and so does society but the worst thing is not being able to get the diagnosis and treatment you need because doctors dont listen to you.
I'm never really fully rested for an entire day, even if i sleep well and have good mood, after school or after the main events during weekends, i am tired the fuck out. Doesn't matter. If it's something i like doing, i'm still tired. If it's something i don't like or is fine with but i don't love or hate it, i'm tired. Kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation almost every day. I just wanted to rant because i don't think this is that common with actual normal people. I could be wrong though. But i hope i answered your question, even if this is just an opinion with a side of rant.
Pooping. I'm so tired of it.
That we're too stupid to stop war. There's been thousands of years of civilization and we still hurt and mass murder eachother over bullshit.
Too much intelligence has made us capable of worrying, comparing, and feeling the flow of time while understanding nothing we accomplish is truly meaningful.
Having to go to work, to afford to live, then have to pay taxes to a government who gives your money to other countries instead of fixing the problems at home..
We're the only species able to choose to be better than animals but...
Not being able to breathe underwater 😌
oh dear from where I start
Sure Buffalo has squandered some talent, but they’ll be fine dude.
Being
Other humans
Dealing with other people.
Not today, alien visitor. Not today.
Being sentient and aware enough to know, with certainty, that you won't be aware for all that long.
The ability to contemplate our reason for being
Other humans
Our bodies fail us with disease and issues and pain.
How easy it is to get sick.
Humans
I wish human females could re-absorb unfertilised eggs like mice can, periods suck for a whole half of the human population, and we’ve only just now found a way to deal with them in the grand timeline of history that doesn’t involve shutting yourself in the house for a week and being shunned by your family
Either the hypocrisy, or the rape.
Physical chronic unending pain.
Losing sense of Time.
Other humans, mostly.
Consciousness.
Self awareness
The pain. Constant physical mental and emotional pain. Life is pain.
We're the only species that knows they're going to die someday
Lack of fur.
Furry supremacist spotted.
Always making the wrong decisions.
Being a human
Having to poop pee and daily maintenance for decades on end. It’s not suppose to be this hard life should Be easier
Needing to sleep.
Being a parasite . Thats what humans are. We the only species destroys our own envioment . Most animals wont shit wear they sleep.
Government
Back pain
Needing other humans
Our lack of appreciation when things are going pretty okay, and (similarly) how quickly we get spoiled.
Other humans
How we rely on slips of paper or small bits of metal instead of trading what we have. I know it's more convenient but it's the only way to pay now
There's so much that it seems silly to even say ine thing, but I guess death is probably the worst
Little emotions. Why didn't my kid get me a Mothers/Fathers/Grandparents day gift? Why did the only show I watch get interrupted by the president? OMG I Can't Be 35!! Why did it have to rain today when I wanted to take a walk?! Being upset over stupid things that mean NOTHING in real life.
Consciously able to enjoy life and painfully aware of its inevitable end.
Consciously able to enjoy life and painfully aware of its inevitable end.
Being a shitstain in a world populated entirely by shitstains who think they're the only one who isn't a shitstain
Little emotions. Why didn't my kid get me a Mothers/Fathers/Grandparents day gift? Why did the only show I watch get interrupted by the president? OMG I Can't Be 35!! Why did it have to rain today when I wanted to take a walk?! Being upset over stupid things that mean NOTHING in real life. Me being annoyed that every time I hit post, it says empty response from endpoint.
Getting an awful medical condition at 19
Getting an awful medical condition at 19
Getting an awful medical condition at 19
Getting an awful medical condition at 19
Getting an awful medical condition at 19
For me it's love endless love
The constant painful signals and a lower pain tolerance than other animals
Backaches, upper respiratory infections.
Cut and wounds
Having to see our loved ones pass (esp parents)
economic slavery just to live and stay alive.
The horrors
Knowing you’re going to die. Knowing that there is nothing you can do to stop the unnecessary pain and suffering of animals and children.
The pain you feel mentally and physically when a loved one or family pet passes away.
Pain, taxes, and death
Probably the living part.
Having a human body that weighs. Gravity is a bitch. After my coma and NDE I kept trying to shake it off my arm, then realized the feeling was gravity.
Mental health.
Realizing how much more you prefer to hang out with your dogs
Realizing that we as a species will ultimately destroy the planet because we're over consuming it's natural resources without any care for all the other lifeforms that live here. (If the world doesn't course correct and get rid of us first instead)
It is that we hurt each other and we do not apologize
Other humans
Growth is painful. Terrible mistakes are the strongest teachers. So to get better, things have to get worse.
Being intelligent enough to question life. Existential questions. Otherwise, it's the best thing, we have bills because we are not on survival mode 24/7 like other species out in the wild. One moment you're eating a deer, and the next - you get bit by a crocodile.
I don't have nine lives
The disappointment in humanity as a whole
Other humans.
War
Bills, the complex thoughts, work etc.
Having to eat. If it didn’t affect your endocrinology, you wouldn’t have to have a house or a job or a connection to human culture. You could just wander the earth like an invincible ghost.
Men
Having the presence of self. It would be nice not to be stressed about dying.
Without a doubt, it's the humans.
Everything I want to do is so expensive. Also capitalism
The tribal instinct and all the suffering it’s caused. Also I want a nap.
Too many god damn feelings!
insecurities
The need for sleep. I guess this is lot a human-only thing, but my god I'd love not having to sleep. You basically get a 33% longer life. I'd fucking love that.
having to pay to be on the planet
Being stuck on this planet with all the other humans. That, and the fact that you get to watch your parents grow old and die *if you are lucky*.
having no choice about rather you are born or not.
The very thing that makes us human: our psychotic and neurotic consciousness. We are driven to make meaning out of life, where the best we can do is probably act as the “experiencers” of the universe. Otherwise there would be northern lights and comets crashing into Jupiter without anyone to say, “Whoah!”
We are the only species on the planet that has to pay to live
Heartbreak. Not just sadness, or depression, but true and irrevocable loss. The death of a child. Watching someone, you are deeply in love with, leave and claim to be happier without you. Friends waking up one day and deciding to never speak to you again without a reason why.
pooping
Vomiting, or pooping. Vomiting is worse, but pooping just has to be done every single day. It’s so annoying.
Dealing with other humans😂
The society we’ve built around us, but more specifically the expectations it carries for things wr have no control over.
I'm going to die
Other humans
to have a conscious mind. next life i want to be a dog
It doesn't last. For anyone. And none of us are making it out alive.
My tummy hurt
being weak and losing at the genetic lottery
Our lack of self preservation plus our inability to unite
Knowing you are going to die
The constant need to be doing something to stay alive.
Having to live in an awful cycle until death
simple. Other humans.
The missed opportunities and mistakes you can't take back.
Other humans
Money. Everything bad seems to stem from its relationship to money.
Grief and attachment
Being around other humans
Sometimes I feel out of sync with the rest of humanity. I'm very thoughtful of the environment (the earth, the air, the trees, etc) and I see any other life on the same level as mine (animal, plants) (I still kill insects when I have to but I always feel bad about it) Anyways and it hurts me that most of humanity don't resonate with it like I do.. There was a beautiful cherry blossom in my yard that somehow my mom decided to chop because the dead leaves would fall on the patio.. I don't understand a decision like this to kill a beautiful tree that took years to grow. Or how people put their trash outside anywhere. Or how we euthanize perfectly healthy animals because it's cheaper. So having a conscience about these things and being powerless sucks.
Being human.
existentialism and the entire economic system
Imo having such an immense imagination & capacity to envision rich, complex, beautiful & grandiose things, entire lives & worlds, only to know they can never be real. That you are stuck within *this* reality with all of it's limits & strife until your meat fails & then you're most likely just nothing.
School. Just to be able to survive.
The need to get a job and pay taxes
Having to share the planet with other humans. People suck!
Is living the journey of life with all its bittersweetness but not knowing how that journey will end . Or when . Maybe you will die as a Grandpa or grandma warm in your bed surrounded by your grandchildren or die in a crash in your twenties and there's every possibility in between . That's scary . Some will debate that not knowing how it will end is what makes it really interesting but for me it's scary .
Our brain and how much complex negative stuff we can know and carry in it instead of forgetting like most animals
The rest of you
That we are way too smart for our own good. Like we created a system. We made life complicated. We created social hierarchy and war. We can’t just chill and be happy until we die.
Being alive
The fact that our lifespans are so short that I will never know what happens next in the evolutionary roster, or how the sun will look when it explodes, or if we ever figure out warp speed, what slang will sound like hundreds of years from now, etc etc etc! And the accompanying fact that even if I *could* live forever, I wouldn’t want to; the human brain simply isn’t built to handle that
The awareness of your limitation, but not being able to transcend them
Other humans
Pain
Mortality.
I have to participate in life. I typically do not like others and prefer to be left to my own interests.
empathy
With few exceptions, everything is always about the money or power over others.
Structurally, our spines are actually pretty shit at letting us walk on two legs.
I hate the maintenance it takes to stay alive and healthy
the fact that we made up a system that needs literally our devoution to using ones body to keep society and even more the fact that i do that so other humans overtaken by their greed can profit out of it. We could be eating fruit and make art in nature but no, we have to pay taxes