What a boomer thinks of his marriage

[u/EndersGame_Reviewer]

[u/Cracka_Chooch]

This guy's comments scream of "I was forced to live this way so everyone else needs to as well". Probably secretly gets angry when he sees someone younger who's happy with life and living just fine, so the only way he can cope is by doubling down that he's right and they're wrong.

[u/Bright_Appearance390 → u/Cracka_Chooch]

Not at all. I do get angry seeing younger people anxious, depressed, and suicidal all the time.

People like you and modern society in general lied to them. Told them it was all about happiness and it's a very unrealistic expectation.

I'd be suicidal too if I thought that and then found out I just have to work everyday to eat, pay bills, and then die.

[u/Matto987 → u/Bright_Appearance390]

I'd be suicidal too if I thought that and then found out I just have to work everyday to eat, pay bills, and then die.

I think capitalism broke your brain.

[u/Bright_Appearance390 → u/Matto987]

I'm retired in my early 30s and happy. My wife and children are happy. The animals on my Ranch are happy. All because I knew that life was about survival.

I don't see anything broken about me or my life.

[u/Matto987 → u/Bright_Appearance390]

All because I knew that life was about survival.

This is what I'm talking about. You are in that position because capitalism was good to you. Plenty of people work as hard as you did and end up way worse than you.

I'm disabled and my life is shit. If there was no happiness in my life I'd rather be dead. For a lot of people happiness is what makes life worth living, surviving just for the sake of living Is misery.

Happiness is the light at the end of the tunnel to head towards. Obviously survival is along that path but it's not the only goal. I'm fully willing to concede that in a vacuum the primary goal of life is survival but it's ridiculous to imply it's the only one that matters. Haven't you heard of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

[u/Bright_Appearance390 → u/Matto987]

Okay. Capitalism was good. Let's say that is true. It doesn't change my argument.

You being disabled is not the norm. Your life and perspective is not the norm. As a whole ir doesn't really matter. We use the majority to give things not the few exceptions l.

[u/Matto987 → u/Bright_Appearance390]

I'm not really sure what we're arguing at this point.

[u/Bright_Appearance390 → u/Matto987]

I do.

I'm arguing that life is about survival and not happiness. You can indeed pursue happiness but that's not what it's about or why you exist.

We literally exist to find a mate, reproduce, and raise offspring.

That is all. Gotta go now.

[u/Matto987 → u/Bright_Appearance390]

We literally exist to find a mate, reproduce, and raise offspring.

We don't exist for any reason, we just do. Based on our instincts we do have a desire to further the survival of our species and to not die. I don't really see that as a purpose, it's just instincts. you can't do anything else if you're dead so obviously it's the first priority but that doesn't make it the purpose. Humans are Sapient, we're able to consider things more than just survival, that's what makes us unique. We can do more with our lives than just exist. I'll take it you're not very philosophical but humans are a lot more complex than you're giving us credit for.

[u/Bright_Appearance390 → u/Matto987]

You're wrong.

We exist to find a mate, reproduce, and raise offspring.

Are bodies are built to survive long enough to do just that. Just like the other ~8 million species on the planet.

You just FEEL like we have more purpose. Your feelings don't matter.