WTF Where did they tell anyone to kill themselves? Utter nonsense. In fact they said they hoped the person would not.
That is true, but he/she did say some utterly stupid bullshit too. With that sort of bullshit, its very hard to see anything else of value in the persons post.
Subotai said:
I dont feel like I have any redeeming qualities to add to this life
Being a good person, being a bad person, having redeeming qualities, improving the world- the only thing I know for certain is that the dead add nothing to the planet and to humanity. I understand your desire for suicide, I have and do feel similar a lot of the time, but I also know that once I am dead, that's it, I cannot take it back- I therefore hesitate. Given the finality of that course of action, the ultimate finality of it, I think it is something worth spending a lifetime considering; I'm going to keep hesitating. You'll die when you are old, no doubt. It's going to happen soon for everyone, the cessation of pain and joy- why rush it? Who knows, perhaps you will eventually see you are not obligated to add anything to the world; you can do what you feel like doing, you can live a life of your own design, you can add or take from the world- it doesn't matter, the world will take it all back in the end and destroy all traces of your passage anyway. This does not excuse bad behaviour, but it should help you realise you are by no means anomalous in terms of contributing little to the world. There's no need to throw your life away, it will be taken from you in the end anyway. Just live it.
I hope you make the same choice I have made which is to keep on struggling because life is fucking fascinating. It is ridiculously strange, improbable, weird, unsettling, miraculous and nothing like what I initially thought it was. It feels like endless sufferring and often is, but you can reduce your pain by actually looking at what human nature is and why it almost excuses you from concerns of being a good or bad person- you are human, we are all challenged like this. Are you being irrational? If you feel worthless, why? What have you done that is so bad? Everyone who has ever lived has done good and bad, relentlessly. I assure you, we are all as worthless, degraded, conflicted, confused as each other. We are all suffering for no clear reason- together. You are no worse than anyone else. Its okay to be human; you never had a choice. Stop imagining that life is a grand epic movie and see it as a truly strange, unlikely and yet highly
interesting experience. Even the pain.
