Topic: People often confuse coping habits with life actually being good
+Anonymous A — 11 hours ago #68,681
People seem to confuse "cope" with genuine fulfillment. When you look closely, virtually every activity humans engage in is simply a mechanism to deal with the inherent difficulty of being alive. Here are some things widely regarded as evidence that life is worth living, paired with what they actually address:
Coffee : the fatigue that comes with existing. Drugs : the raw pain of being conscious. Music : the suffering or the emptiness that fills idle hours. Art broadly : same as music, pain or emptiness. Sports : the hollowness of unoccupied time. Video games : that same hollowness. Exercise : the restless anxiety that builds up inside you. Sex and masturbation: the discomfort of biological desire. Philosophy and therapy : the psychological torment of being self aware. Religion : the terror of knowing you will die. Politics : filling the void when nothing else does.
Life is not good.... It is an unrelenting, perpetual management of a baseline struggle that never goes away. What's remarkable is how effectively most people avoid seeing it that way. Though honestly, a part of me wishes I could join them in that blindness.
One clarification though: I actually enjoy plenty of the coping. Music especially hits differently. But enjoyment of the cope is not the same as life being good. If anything it just reinforces the point. You are always struggling, and these are the tools you reach for to get through it.
+Crazy Goth Girl — 2 hours ago, 8 hours later[T] [B] #680,444
I like this
+Anonymous C — 2 hours ago, 23 seconds later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #680,445
@OP
> Sex and masturbation: the discomfort of biological desire
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