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I'm not talking about money, I'm talking about living LIFE. But you can factor in lack of money.
| Yes. | 24 | |
| No. | 34 | |
| I've had a hard life. | 19 | |
| no! my mom didn't buy me the new iphone i have the WORST life ughhhhhh | 14 | |
| Of course. I have so many opportunities than everyone else. | 14 |
I think the way I choose to look at my life instead of how I live through it is what determines how good or bad it is.
The life I have is best for me, for any other single person it could be the absolute worst.
I smell mothballs and i hate the smell of mothballs.
So at this moment in time my life sucks.
I don't think so. I'm lucky to live in a non-third world country. I can afford some luxuries and I have access to good food and drink. Just about everything else I hate. I didn't like my childhood, I'd say it was traumatizing, abusive and depressing, I had all these dreams and I no longer feel I can make them a reality. The interests I used to have now make me depressed. I feel worthless and there are some days where I contemplate whether or not I deserve to live. I used to fantasize about having a different life, I still do but in a slightly different sense, and eventually I realized that it wouldn't happen the way I had wanted to....
The "friends" I have, most of them I don't care about. I've realized that we have very little in common and therefore, I can barely relate to them. Some the friends I had stop their contact with me and with one of them I'll probably always wonder what his true feelings toward me were. There's only one of my friends that I can relate to and despite this I find myself slowly distancing myself away from her.
I "poor" social skills and social phobia's where it's becoming a cycle for me to quit things that are mostly good for me. Loving the subsets but quitting the classes because I don't feel like dealing with the people, even if they're mostly nice. I too paranoid to even leave my house by self! I can't go on walks or ride on bike...
Then, I've got all these health problems like my salt sensitivity, that make my life more depressing than need be.
It's like I'm stuck in some oppressive box and just can't escape from it. Every twist and turn I make leads me to a dead-end or more problems. It's irritating and of course, depressing.
I love my life. Sometimes when I verbalize it to other people, it just sounds like one of those adventure story books. I started life with the best father a girl could ask for (he unfortunately died while I performed CPR on him at the age of 16). I got the chance to ride horses and compete up and down the east coast of the US as a working student. I started my own gig exercising and schooling horses for other people and was accepted into a great medical based school. I then got the opportunity to travel the world on a sailboat and met my current boyfriend. So we virtually sailed into the sunset last summer and have been in the Caribbean Sea ever since. And guess what? The best part is I don't come from a wealthy family. Everything I've done, I've worked for. My point being it just makes everything taste that much sweeter. I love my life.
Sucks to be the people that think that being born in a fortunate atmosphere and working your balls off to just live should make you feel guilty for saying your life sucks. Sorry if your life sucks due to a poverty stricken situation, blame your parents for irresponsibly and selfishly squirting you out in a 3rd world shithole with no gameplan for s decent survival.
Just think it had to be said.
Nooo. My life could be better if I worked at it more and overcame a lot of my anxieties. It's far from terrible though.
I think the 'best life' is incredibly subjective, so I think a comparison with other people's lives has to be based on fulfilment of aspirations and contentment, as well as perhaps mental and physiological health. I have many aspirations unfulfilled and, whilst well-fed and under no harmful amount of stress, am not yet content or enjoying myself as much as I'd like.
If I had to rate my life between 1 and 10, 10 being the best possible life I feel I could have, I'd put it currently at 6.
Everyone should answer yes! Just being able to be alive makes you one of the luckiest people in the universe.
Meh. I want to do some things the vast majority would obviously frown upon.
I doubt my life will be lived the way I wish it to be.
Yes, I'm a very happy girl. I live in a peaceful country where people are not as rich as in America or Europe but we each have a house and there are no beggars here. We can leave home with all windows op I'm happily in love and have some projects for the future. I know that someday I would get a promotion and become someone important in the company I'm working for. I am healthy and am pretty.
I like that most people don't think they have the best life. You're using the internet on a computer....your life must be pretty sweet. There are millions and millions of people who don't have either, let alone electricity and running water. Africa is a long way away but it doesn't mean they don't exist. We have it good.
Yes but since when was access to the internet and a computer the only factor in whether your life is one of the worst on the planet or one of the best?
We should all be aware of in what way we are privileged or lucky compared to others, but we should also be aware that having many resources at your disposal compared to having few does not in itself guarantee a great life. It's what you're capable of doing with those resources, your emotional well-being, whether your desires are met, how much stress and responsibility you have in your daily life etc. These things all shape our individual concept of a 'good life' and a 'bad life', and are the reasons why somebody living without the internet or a computer, without much money and material wealth, can still be more satisfied with their life than somebody with lots of money and material wealth currently browsing IIN :)
Hmm, I would agree, but the question wasn't "Do you have an above average life?" or "Are people worse off than you?". It was "Do you have one of the best lives on the planet?"
According to Nielson Online, as of June 30 2012, there are 2,405,518,376 internet users in the world. That's over 34% of the world population. Even if we assume that the lives of internet users are necessarily better, that means that using the internet only puts you in the top 34%, which isn't particularly impressive. Yes, it makes you more fortunate than most people, but I don't think "probably in the top third" is a reasonable definition of "one of the best".
I love my life.
That being said, I wouldn't wish it upon anyone else, haha. It's just right for me, but I've been through some things that I wouldn't want anyone else to have to go through.
But really? I love my job, I love my sister, and I've got a few good friends. I know how to have a good time and I do it as often as possible. Very little stresses me out, and I'm great at not giving a fuck. I should advertise for LG - Life is Good ^-^
Yes, I do.
I don't need to experience any other life to know mine is the best. In fact, I think merely wondering about other people's experiences makes your own life not as good as it should be. It either invokes envy or pity, which negatively impacts your own life.
For me, it's pretty good. But I'm not sure anyone should compare their life to mine, and I don't compare mine to others. What makes me happy may drive another individual insane. It's far too subjective.
However, I have access to clean water. I have a safe and warm place to sleep. I do not worry about my next meal. My health is good. I am surrounded by people who love me. It may not be the best life but I am pretty happy with it.
I live a much more privileged life than the majority of the planet. I am a young white male who lives in a prosperous country that is heavily biased towards that sort of person. My parents are intelligent and supportive and their incomes are secure and above average. I have a small group of good friends. I have a girlfriend who is beautiful and makes me smile. Objectively, my life is very good.
I don't think it's right to judge how good your life is based on what you have, though. You referenced that in the OP. Some people have terrible lives but have a lot of money, a lot of good friends and a good family too. My life has ups and downs, as does any life. I think I have a way of communicating and thinking which causes me to be marginalised (or feel marginalised) by a large amount of society. I think that I am very insecure about my personality, and very lacking in confidence about my outward appearance. I think that my insecurities are less detrimental than a lot of peoples' are, but that we can't judge quality of life relative to other people (even though individual happiness is definitely linked to how happy those around us are). I have a very, sometimes cripplingly, unhealthy dose of social anxiety.
Everything in my life could be considered a blessing or a curse, depending on how I look at it. Most things I see as both (that in itself is both a blessing and a curse).
Let me live in the shoes of everyone else on the planet before I decide.
Some people don't even have shoes D: Plus what about kids' shoes, have you seen how SMALL they are? You'd have to bind your feet to squeeze into them...
Hahaha... I had to laugh when I read what you said, because I just came from town where a lot of the islanders are barefoot and one west indian man had a single pink flip flop which I suspect he probably found washed ashore.... :D
I don't have to wear the kids shoes on my feet though; I can hang them from my ears :D