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Life Involves Inescapable Suffering

You ever think about how none of us asked to be here?

Like I didn’t sign up for this. You didn’t. Nobody did. We just opened our eyes one day screaming, crying, and suddenly we’re expected to make something of ourselves. To survive. To thrive. To not mess up. To find love, avoid pain, pay bills, bury people we love, and somehow stay sane.

And people still say, “Well, that’s just life.”

But maybe that’s the point. Life isn’t a gift for everyone. Sometimes it’s a curse wrapped in pretty moments.

Even in the best conditions, life is a net of pain: disease, loss, mental distress, aging, and death are inevitable. For many, life includes poverty, war, abuse, and despair. Even people with “good lives” struggle. Depression, anxiety, loneliness, burnout it’s everywhere.

No one consents to be born. Procreation imposes life with all its potential suffering, trauma, and burdens on a being that never had the chance to choose.

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It's wild how people always ask why I don't want kids but never question anyone who does. The way they treat reproducing like it's no big deal—like it doesn't require thought or intention—is honestly disturbing. I thought we had evolved past the instinct to procreate but I guess I'm giving humanity too much credit.

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It really overcooks my steak into rubber that natalists talk about how fucked up this world is, and yet decide it's perfectly reasonable to bring more kids here to suffer.

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"But who's gonna take care of you when you're old if you don't have kids?"

That's the thing: I'm counting on not making it that far. I'd rather die before I reach the point where can't take care of myself.

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Emily Skaja, from a poem titled "No, I Do Not Want to Talk with You on Linkendin," featured in Brute: Poems

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Wasting away a life I don’t even want to live

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Leigh Hunt, Songs and Chorus of the Flowers

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Why would you choose a bear over a man? Because since 1784 there have been 180 fatal bear attacks, while in 2021 alone, 81,100 women and girls were intentionally killed by men.

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"don't let it bother you" first of all, everything bothers me

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11 June 1939 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

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The older I get, the more I’m fine with disconnection.

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i love when ppl say “that’s so you” it feels good to know i exist and have a vibe

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i hate you summer i hate you heat i hate you sweating i hate you burning sun i hate you warm weather i hate you climate change

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I need to be a in a forest cabin or a seaside cottage in an oversized hoodie, I think that would cure me.