The reason I choose to continue living is that I only have one chance to inhabit a mortal body in this world so I’d like to see it through for as long as I can. What’s yours?

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I don’t.

    I shot myself in the head last fall and just woke up like nothing had happened. Then I promptly experienced a powerful mandela effect. The most powerful and undeniable one in my life (because the thing that changed is something I had experienced in its “old” version a few days before I did the deed).

    I’m pretty sure what that means is that when I die, I transition to the nearest universe where I didn’t.

    It made me realize that I might be here an extremely long time, and that leaving is not an option no matter how dark it gets.

    Since then, I have had a gusto and commitment to life that I never had before. I’ve been kind of suicidal my whole life. Always keeping it in the back of my head: if things get bad enough, I’ll just go.

    But now my escape boats are burned, and my only choice is forward.

    The experience has actually been really wonderful. It’s so much easier to get myself moving. I just remind myself that if I don’t take care of my shit now, the next ten thousand years are really gonna suck.

  • CYB3R@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    If I had a turn off button on my back like a toy I would had pushed it long ago…

    Suicide is too painful. That’s it. Also my mom’s food still nice.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I have a chance, albeit a very small one, to make the world a place other people don’t want to exit if I’m alive. Can’t do that if I’m dead. But I would probably want to be euthanised if I started living a painful or disabled life.

    • Oneser@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      I like the first half of your comment, but the second is really hard to swallow. I guess you meant “severe” or “debilitatingly” painful/disabled life, and I don’t think you meant malice in what you’re saying - but I know some people living with disabilities that would see your comment as calling them worthless.

      • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Oh no, I’m not saying anyone should feel any way, this is just my preference. And I did mean severe pain or disability, yes.

  • racsol@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    At my lowest:

    • I wanted to get out of the pit just so I could help others get out too. But I’d admit I haven’t actually realised this commitment. I just ask people how they feel and try to listen to everyone.
    • I did not want to give anyone the pleasure to know that I gave up, that I could not take it anymore. That they won.
    • I’d prefer to not cause suffering to my loved ones.

    Now, I think life is both a gift and a responsability. And, right now, I want to fulfill this responsability I have towards others.

    Anyways, I wish you all an existence that is worth going through.

  • Marty_TF@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    im a garden and landscape builder and my greatest pleasure in life is seeing things grow and progress.

    a few months ago I connected with a group of incredibly nice people and seeing these people grow every day of their life, bringing in new people and change with them, that is my lifeline right now.

    if I was to reincarnate, please let me be a hobbit in the 4th age.

  • PetroGuy@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    sunk cost fallacy. i’m in too deep to stop now. really, this is how i manage everything. once the smallest amount of time has been invested in something there’s no stopping til i see it through.