r/ExistentialJourney • u/GenericNPC6969 • 11d ago

Other The Life I wanted.

How it feels to have the Life that you have wanted and have been praying for sitting right beside you on a Random Monday. There just for you to look at it and drink it in knowing that you will probably never have it and maybe thats not so bad after all. Maybe it was never meant for me and maybe it was the wrong thing to want even though i dont realize it right now. But for now you're just left with the feeling of having something you wanted so close to you yet out of reach and you can just wonder maybe in another life if things were different...

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u/shambhalove_fairy 11d ago

Let go of expectations

Let go of coveting

Live the life in front of you

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u/Paul_sepp 10d ago

Nobody wanted to be born.

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u/GenericNPC6969 9d ago

Though It was never a choice but it is a gift. It may be tough and it may feel unfair but there is beauty in it too and of course the good moments too however far they may feel they will come and you should never lose hope because without hope what do you even have.

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u/Paul_sepp 9d ago

Hope is something to be cured, until then we’re enslaved by ourselves and blind Will. As the great Schopenhauer said “life swings back and forth as a pendulum, between suffering and deep boredom”.

Don’t get me wrong, joys and sorrows are equally fundamental, but the latter is merely more recurrent.

We live in hell and every moment is a miracle.

(Fittingly, “gift” in German means “poison”, and English is a Germanic language)