Quote (Interesting @ Mar 20 2013 02:50pm)
Because:
A) I didn't have a say in whether I would come into existence or not. I just came into existence;
C) I didn't have control over my environment. I feel like, now that I'm about to turn 26, that I am mature enough to understand a lot more of the world and the ways in which it operates;
D) I have little power to change things in my life. In retrospect it seems that I was digging a hole when I was growing up and have now realized that I'm at the bottom of a hole and it'll take time to get out of it. The innocence and the joy in which I saw the world when I was younger only shows itself to me once in awhile now; and
E) What am I going to do? Kill myself? There may be a lot of emotional suffering in life, but there is also some joy, and I think there is an overwhelming possibility that there is nothing after we die. I just have to try to maximize that joy and minimize that suffering while I"m here.
You only feel like you have little power to change things because you've so much to lose.