If I've learnt anything from numerous askreddit posts on the question 'what is the best feeling ever?', it's that the human condition is rather tragic. The best pleasure is basically the relief of discomfort or pain - like taking your bra off at the end of the day or like this one walking into an air conditioned room.
That's why I consider being alive as irrational for a conscious being. Suffering will always outweigh good emotions so we should come to the conclusion that not being alive is beneficial for our wellbeing. Somehow the majority of us decides to rather endure pain than end our existence.
In the darkness that is existence there can still be beacons of light.
Ending one's existence is the end of all of that. No more light, no more dark, just nothing.
I stick around due to those beacons of light in the dark and honestly the more time goes on the more I realize that there's actually quite a lot of light to be had.
Yeah work sucks for 10 hours a day, but that time allows me to enjoy my hobbies.
The pleasure of a newly painted miniature, the bliss of hiking a new trail, the exhilaration of biking further and faster than I did before, finding new places and things to photograph.
Enjoying a nap in the shade of tree on a lightly windy day, watching the river flow by while I forget to cast my line, watching the clouds flit through the sky while laying in the grass.
If you end it all the only thing left behind is the pain for those who knew you. The gap left in their lives caused by your absence.
Sometimes their big gaps: lovers, friends, coworkers. Sometimes their small: the regular who always stops by, the person with the cool hair you see sometimes, the person who you talked to on the bus that day who you still sometimes see. But the gaps are still there.
I've known a lot of people who have taken their own life, the lives of others, and had their lives taken by other people. Those gaps will always be there.
Stick around, look to the outside world, and reach out. There is light in the world if you look for it, don't let the darkness that dominates the social media landscape be all that you see.
Love this.
Youre a descriptive writer. I'm down to read one of your novels, if you ever choose to write one.
Thank you, I've been working on and off again on various story ideas for awhile now.
One issue I'm having though is they're being little plot bunnies.
Basically I'll have 6 plot ideas, start 2, and have 8 plot ideas instead of 4.
It's this or nothing at all. I wish I was one of the lunatics believing in an afterlife.
There's an afterlife for every single one of us. Whether it's something "you" can perceive is an entirely different proposition. Judgment in the after life is where all the anxiety sets in... The idea that we'll be caste once again, but "yodo" fuck it I'm a good dude and damn a hell.
If you didn't have discomfort or pain (or negative emotions in general), positive emotions would feel like nothing. You need the bad to contrast the good.
Kind of like gaining a tolerance to a drug, you can gain a tolerance to an emotion.
No, I haven't cuz I'm from Germany
Not a super cold one, I'd hate that. A moderately cold one will be great, though.
The first time I ever went to Albuquerque it was in the middle of July. Every day I was there was over 100 degrees. Being outdoors felt like being in an oven, and the inside of my car felt like a blast furnace, but all the businesses had their AC cranked up to arctic temperatures. My whole experience of being there was moving back and forth between absolutely roasting and completely freezing with basically no in between. It was extremely uncomfortable. This was almost 20 years ago, and to this day I don't think I've ever been so hot and so cold so many times in the same day.
Our local supermarket is the ultimate air conditioner paradise on a 28°C+ day
Then your sweaty ass clothes feel like someone threw a wet sheet over you.
When the temperature change is so vast and sudden, it hits you in the chest and feels slightly harder to breathe for a moment.
Me and my wife call it "Hotel cold"
The magic gets lost a bit, when you have an AC in your office tbh.
Please tell me that's not in °c
Nah.
I live in a tropical country. It’s always hot and this year has been especially bad.
Well there is this new mall that is kind of underground and the entrance is kind of hide. In the park.
When you go in… DAMN! You are instantly cooler. Every time I go in it is it’s own reward.
It’s also a scent walk from my home but to too far, so you can really relax as you get there.
I could live without air conditioning for 2/3rds of the day, but if it's not ~65°F I basically can't sleep lol
Does the USDA require you have a printed expiration date?
Oh don't worry, I'm safe to eat 😘
Oh no worries. I’m sure you’re good.
I’m just concerned about you having to sleep in nosferatu’s walk in freezer.
I'll be the judge of that.