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Wow, just watched the first couple of minutes, but that looks depressing, even more so than US sidewalks
I guess the Chinese still prefer to buy their stuff in small shops they know, which actually is a good thing and I hope it stays that way.
Still, what a waste of energy, materials, time, etc.
Wow, just watched the first couple of minutes, but that looks depressing, even more so than US sidewalks
I guess the Chinese still prefer to buy their stuff in small shops they know, which actually is a good thing and I hope it stays that way.
Still, what a waste of energy, materials, time, etc.
I suppose they're going for the "build it and they will come" approach...
What it is about life that you find so unbearable?
I guess I could be a "happy frisky young" person by some vantage points, but the more general way to see me is as a guy with a rare genetic disorder. I have scoliosis, diminished lung capacity, I can't walk, I'm under four-feet tall, and I've had over 200 bone fractures. These days I spent most days on the computer. I have few to no close friends and I'm often unemployed.
And I would love to live to see 95, I mean if I could still have my mind. I've been sort-of blessed by having the opposite of clinical depression, which is fairly common in my condition. (I get anxiety and mania more than depression) Still there's so many wonderful things to learn, to see, to do. Even when I'm 95 their still will likely be places I wish to see, stories I wish to tell or have told to me.
Part of why countries don't have assisted suicide is people like me. I can kind of see how the "life is good" attitude we have is maybe annoying, but possibly I'm just not stating it right. Life is also full of suffering, frustration, pain, and death. I don't want to sound totally Pollyanna. I just think a society does need to believe "Life is good", even when there's suffering, and that I think life can be good.
Also part of what I think helps make it good is if your expectations are low. If you expect or demand a life without pain, tragedy, injustice, or incapacity than life can kind of suck. If you even just expect/demand a life of success, fame, wealth than life is probably going to suck. I generally keep my expectations low. I had a dream of being an ambassador or whatever, but I didn't expect it. Much of my "dream life" was just a place of my own that's full of books, having a few friends, and traveling around the world. The last part was maybe unrealistic, but I have almost managed the rest. Although I'd probably add "and helping others" which is something I might have to work on as I naturally seem to be a tad selfish.
Anyway if a person really wants to commit suicide I guess we can't stop them, but to essentially embrace it is weird to me. And a bit scary because if lives are going to be deemed "suffering" they might get around to pressing people on me. Or worse I'd live in a world where if I did face depression it would easily be over for me.
It's off-topic, but I want to let you know your post is truly an inspiration. I work in a hospital, and have noticed some of the most bitter, negative people are those with the least amount of things wrong with them, and some of the most positive, grateful people in the world are those who are the most sick, and often have not much time left.
In your case, you're correct. No matter our age, we never stop learning and experiencing new things, even if the body grows weary.
I guess cities like Norilsk, Russia or La Rinconada, Peru.
Norilsk: sulphuric smelling air, acid rain and highly polluted by the Nickel industry. All the surrounding area is tinted black and there is no living tree in a 48 km radius. The life expectancy is 10 years under the russian standard...
La Rinconada is a gold mining city whose population has rapidly grown according to the rising gold price. The city has no canalisation system and there is a fatal contamination with quicksilver. Nearly all the population is drug addicted to bear the work and life there.
I've been to a couple of those, even lived for a while.
They're not "sad". Pretty nice to get away from all the crowds in the big cities after a while.
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