MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoEverything happens for a reasonlemmy.todayimagemessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1501arrow-down115
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minus-squarecum@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down5·11 months agoVery little of your life is actually in your control
minus-squareBizarroland@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·11 months agoImagine that you’re starting now. The universe was created as-is, ex nihilo, 5 minutes ago. What can you do to make your life better? Not a lot. Some things, but not a lot.
minus-squaresaboteur@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoI believe you have to think a little more long term before submitting to the idea that “I can’t change anything”. Can I change things in the next 1 hour? If you’re broke now, probably yes you will still be broke after 1 hour. But that’s not how life works. We go to schools and develop ourselves in other ways, to have a better life 10 or 20 years later.
minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·11 months agoI accept this as true for billions of people. How can those in destitute poverty do anything but survive? But, say, upper-middle class westerners? Add in the most positive family dynamics and you seem to have an immense amount of free agency. Curious if you agree or not :)
minus-squareunexposedhazardlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoI would say there are limits to what one can easily achieve from their starting point in life, but your statement is so fatalistic that anyone who believes it might aswell stop trying and just give up on life.
Very little of your life is actually in your control
Imagine that you’re starting now.
The universe was created as-is, ex nihilo, 5 minutes ago.
What can you do to make your life better?
Not a lot. Some things, but not a lot.
I believe you have to think a little more long term before submitting to the idea that “I can’t change anything”.
Can I change things in the next 1 hour? If you’re broke now, probably yes you will still be broke after 1 hour.
But that’s not how life works. We go to schools and develop ourselves in other ways, to have a better life 10 or 20 years later.
I accept this as true for billions of people. How can those in destitute poverty do anything but survive?
But, say, upper-middle class westerners? Add in the most positive family dynamics and you seem to have an immense amount of free agency.
Curious if you agree or not :)
I would say there are limits to what one can easily achieve from their starting point in life, but your statement is so fatalistic that anyone who believes it might aswell stop trying and just give up on life.