tosyne2much:
This is beautifully written... Respect sir

plessis:
I normally applaud anyone who takes his own life.


That is the most difficult thing to do.


I am very much aware of the fact that money, goals , education, ambitions, etc are all social constructs used in giving meaning to this purposeless existence.

The truth is, I'd take my own life if I knew who I'd be giving it to.

Very deep....

Suicide is one of the hardest decision to make in life. When I see people mocking them and calling them cowards, I just shake my head.

They say life is worth living but I don't get the point when one will never make it out alive

Kinggnicole:
Lalasticlala this rant makes more sense than 1000 BBnaija FP topics!

Time2Smile:
Beautifully written. You will not see most Nairaland kids here. They would rather comment on meaningless topics. @Op, I think this is where true religion comes in because it give purpose to human lives.

XML33:
This thread is just a bunch of emotional weaklings patting themselves on the back for being weak and celebrating suicide as a solution to their weakness. How pathetic.

Even Jesus Christ, one of the noblest and reflective people who ever lived never had this stupid mentality about the world. Did Jesus commit suicide? Did he move around the world sharing his opinion about how futile being and existence is? Didn't he do his best to make the world a better place than he met it? Didn't he endure the negativities associated with being and strived to achieve his goal despite it all? Didn't his friends betray him? Didn't his own people betray him? Even despite this, did he describe existence as futile? What have you done to make the world a better place besides coming online to whine about the world and celebrate suicide?

Iranu.

lenghtinny:


Very deep....

Suicide is one of the hardest decision to make in life. When I see people mocking them and calling them cowards, I just shake my head.

They say life is worth living but I don't get the point when one will never make it out alive

XML33:


I'd rather watch BBNaija than join a bunch of weaklings complain about the world and celebrate suicide.

What's the usefulness of this thread? What's the benefit in saying that life is meaningless and everything that we do is futile? How does this benefit humanity? How is saying that suicide is the solution to the problem of existence useful to mankind?

Tell me one person in history of this earth that had this stupid mindset that has impacted positively to the development of the human race? Most of the people who have this mindset end up shooting schools and theaters, blowing up buildings, and committing all forms of mass murder.

The reason you are even alive today is because men and women strived to survive and make the best of themselves despite understanding that life had it's negative aspects. But they focused on the positives and used their gifts to impact their world positively. This is the message that should be propagated, not essays about how life is meaningless and how people are unfair and how suicide is an appetizing solution.

XML33:
Ramblings of a weakling. Please since this life is futile and meaningless, then take your life and leave this earth for people who are strong willed enough to exist in it. And all the weaklings applauding your post should follow suit. Iranu.

The goal of life is to survive and be as comfortable as possible. This is what everyone strives for. There is good and bad in the world. Arm yourselves with the tools to navigate through the bad without being hurt and then try to utilize the good in a noble and self beneficial way.

The world isn't a place for emotional, weak minded, over empathic people who crave genuine friendships and expect everyone to be nice and honest with them and for things to be smooth all the time. People who are like this don't have what it takes to survive in this world. The world is for people who understand the world, who understand that humans have the capacity for evil and malevolence, and they navigate their reality with this fact in mind. They understand that they have a limited time to exist on this earth and they try as much as possible to make the best of it. And there are lots of ways to make the best of it - They could strive for power, utilize their talents in making their society a better place, or they could aim at being as comfortable as they possibly can. They might not know what happens after they die, but they understand that life is a gift and they shouldn't waste it.

Op, If the people who existed before you had this stupid mindset that you have, you wouldn't be here typing on your computer, and you wouldn't have electricity to power your devices or the internet to share your stupid opinion with the world, or the car you used to commute to your work place. If people in the past had the mentality that you have, they'd see no reason to do anything. They'd either commit suicide or sit under a tree all day contemplating the futility of existence and increasingly losing the desire to do anything at all, which would preclude all the strides that's been made in medicine and technology which you an ungrateful entity enjoy constantly.

It's people that have the mentality of the OP that end up shooting schools and committing mass murder, because if life is useless, then why not assist in ending it quickly right?

Stop complaining and do the little you can to see that the world is better than you left it. Maybe that way, the future generation won't have cause to complain like you are doing.

plessis:
don't let anyone fool you. Life has no meaning.

We all die the same. Whether rich or poor or handicapped. We all die.... And those who have memories of us all die too.


Read the book of ecclesiastis in the Bible.

A particular verse said "everything we all do is chasing the wind".

Maxvasia:
I am not a very expressive person but While sitting quietly in my office at work today, i began to reflect on life around us, and this is what my spirit tells me with a great measure of conviction which i wish to share with you all......

Suicide rates will multiply all over the world. Not because times are hard. Times were HARD during the World Wars and Great Economic recessions and depressions. The society is increasingly frivolous. People have no true friends. Because friends see themselves more as rivals. The race is measured by wealth and nothing else. Set backs are mourned as wasted lives by those who should give love and genuine support. So a troubled man becomes the butt of jokes by those in whom he has reposed his trust.

Calamities befall men and their friends shed tears of sympathy for them in the morning, but run them down and harm them ruthlessly at night. The man can't even tell his wife because he is sure she would show little or NO understanding at all, because in her heart is the hearth of the values that society upholds. He has seen her divulge little details to her family. He has heard her eulogise wealth and curse set backs as abomination. She has a little merry heart, while pretending to be oblivious of the realities her man has to face for which her powerful supporting and protective prayers and intuition were needed, to mediate strength and inspire confidence.

The pastor can't be trusted because he is given to flashy cars and worldly ambitions. He rates men by their earthly successes and wealth. He can't be trusted because wealth he says is the ultimate blessing from the Creator. Everyday he celebrates only the rich. The value of a man is measured, not by the quality of his being, but by the size of his pocket.

So the troubled man walks around with his troubles in his heart. One day, he would weigh it all over again, and say NO! It's enough!!

But then, when the slightly reflective one meditates on the purpose to all this, in his mind he bumps ever again against the common saying "to keep body and soul together and lead a respectable life". And again, one asks what is the essence of keeping body and soul together only to be driven along the course of sham and falsehood, to live a life in celebration of tinsel, to be honored and respected by clergies and temples who themselves have become slaves to materialism... a life born, moulded fashioned and forged in a BIG LIE!

No Truth, no genuineness... No Love! Everyone scrambles around in the dark, in ignorance, seeking to attain his goals at the expense of, and to the detriment of the other. So that even Marriages which should be guided by Love and Trust are deeply steeped in intrigue and selfish calculation, one working to outsmart the other in a senseless struggle for power and control. Egotism, selfishness and power lustfulness have become the lord and bane of all relationships, now collapsing on all sides. The expression "Marriages are made in Heaven" have become a hypocritical mockery cry of the Sublime Purity of He Who mercifully ordained it. People now twitch their noses at it because they no longer believe in it, though they profess it for the sake of it. Man has come to question the existence of Love, now on the brink of convincing himself that it does not exist in a world of realism, but only in the sanguine-idealistic consciousness of the dreaming mind.

And no one knows where nor how to find the origin of this scorge, this evil upon which all life around man on earth is founded. Hypocricy, selfishness, slavish materialism, power lustfulness and drunkenness,morbid sensuality, envy, greed, malice and hatred. Little wonder that this world seems on a slow march towards an ignominous collapse. And man still seeks to find solutions to the impending horror by striving even more vigorously into the same faults that gave birth to these evils. Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die, dont ask me why (Bob Marley), for it is useless running to the prayer houses when the heart is seething with poison without any genuine desire to change.

Just a frank rant!

XML33:
Ramblings of a weakling. Please since this life is futile and meaningless, then take your life and leave this earth for people who are strong willed enough to exist in it. And all the weaklings applauding your post should follow suit. Iranu.

The goal of life is to survive and be as comfortable as possible. This is what everyone strives for. There is good and bad in the world. Arm yourselves with the tools to navigate through the bad without being hurt and then try to utilize the good in a noble and self beneficial way.

The world isn't a place for emotional, weak minded, over empathic people who crave genuine friendships and expect everyone to be nice and honest with them and for things to be smooth all the time. People who are like this don't have what it takes to survive in this world. The world is for people who understand the world, who understand that humans have the capacity for evil and malevolence, and they navigate their reality with this fact in mind. They understand that they have a limited time to exist on this earth and they try as much as possible to make the best of it. And there are lots of ways to make the best of it - They could strive for power, utilize their talents in making their society a better place, or they could aim at being as comfortable as they possibly can. They might not know what happens after they die, but they understand that life is a gift and they shouldn't waste it.

Op, If the people who existed before you had this stupid mindset that you have, you wouldn't be here typing on your computer, and you wouldn't have electricity to power your devices or the internet to share your stupid opinion with the world, or the car you used to commute to your work place. If people in the past had the mentality that you have, they'd see no reason to do anything. They'd either commit suicide or sit under a tree all day contemplating the futility of existence and increasingly losing the desire to do anything at all, which would preclude all the strides that's been made in medicine and technology which you an ungrateful entity enjoy constantly.

It's people that have the mentality of the OP that end up shooting schools and committing mass murder, because if life is useless, then why not assist in ending it quickly right?

Stop complaining and do the little you can to see that the world is better than you left it. Maybe that way, the future generation won't have cause to complain like you are doing.

plessis:
I normally applaud anyone who takes his own life.


That is the most difficult thing to do.


I am very much aware of the fact that money, goals , education, ambitions, etc are all social constructs used in giving meaning to this purposeless existence.

The truth is, I'd take my own life if I knew who I'd be giving it to.