Why Does Everything Suck?

By SuperDave | March 5th, 2005 | 33 Comments | General | Rant

If I die at age 20 from an infected kidney, what the hell, I had a good run.

Very recently I noticed that everything sucks these days. I just seems like you can’t enjoy anything without it also sucking to some extent. Everything that makes you happy is either immoral, illegal, or makes you fat. The sun gives you cancer, the water poisons you, the air is full of toxins, the food is full of “bad” cholesterol. Yet we’ve been eating and breathing since before anyone can remember.

People have too much to fear: death, public speaking, heights, sickness. You know what I am most afraid of in this world? Spiders. That’s right, I’m Arachnophobic. I ain’t proud of it, but it’s the truth. Everybody is afraid of something, I’m actually quite glad I’m not afraid of daylight or something big like that.

People can’t get it into their brains that we’re all going to kick the bucket at some point. All you panophobics out there can suck it, because I just don’t give a damn anymore. If I die at age 20 from an infected kidney, what the hell, I had a good run.

 

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7:34 pm on 3/6/2005 1. Sam

Yes, I have to say, personally for me I feel that I am at an academic low point, I hate almost all of my classes, and I really hate being at school. The only class I really appreciate is my first period class, and then once first period is over the rest of the day just goes downhill. For me there’s always the hope that maybe next year will be better, maybe next year the classes will be better, maybe next year I’ll enjoy school more. But then there’s always the realization that maybe school is just going downhill from here maybe next year just going to be worse.
I honestly don’t see how school is benefiting me, school is causing me to be in the mental state that I am currently in, I feel that school is just hurting me. I know most of you will disagree with me and yata yata but honestly I feel that school is really just hindering me and stress is not promoting my progress, only reversing it. This weekend I went to a retreat at Point Bonita with JYCA. I really enjoyed it and felt so much more productive then I have this entire year. It was fun, low stress and I learned so much. Now why can’t school be like that?

9:46 pm on 3/6/2005 2. Nella

Sean, I don’t know why you’re bitching, you’re sittin’ pretty with one of the two male parts in a high school play as a freshman. I’m proud of you, and I’m sure you’re going to do an amazing job. So what are you complaining about? You’ve found something that you’re not only good at, but you also enjoy doing, and isn’t that what life is all about?

As for you, sam, you just haven’t found your calling yet. You will, in due time, but until then life might not be the most inspiring thing for you. But you gotta find something that you enjoy doing, even if it’s not long term, or else you will spend the rest of your high school career yelling “I HATE MY LIFE!!!” And you don’t want that. So get on it! Get involved in everything you can until you can finally settle on whatever it is you like most.

Know what I’m afraid of and have been since I was little? Swimming in deep water. It used to be that I would be too afraid to even go into the deep end of the pool, but I’ve long since conquered that little obsticle. And it used to be even if I was in a boat over deep water I would still be completely freaked out. I’m no longer afraid of stuff like that, but like, this summer in Minnesota, when we were swimming in this giant lake, I would get all jittery if I ever went more than about twenty feet from shore, and I would immediatly swim back as fast as I could. And that was this summer, too. So that’s what I’m afraid of. I guess it’s just the image of this vast expanse of completely penetrable substance below me. It’s kinda weird, though, ’cause I’m a perfectly good swimmer, I’m really not afraid of drowning, it’s more just the fear of riding on top of something so unstable.

Ahh, you know me. I was feelin’ that sort of depression at the beginning of this year, too, but science bowl changed all that. I found my calling.

10:16 pm on 3/6/2005 3. Jackie

Sean’s got a good point…a good quote

Living is bad for the heart!

…Ian I don’t think he’s complaining that his life is bad…just that existence itself is bad. But for what you said, I agree completely.

WE HUMANS HAVE COMPLETELY SCREWED OVER OUR OWN WORLD AND EXISTENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you better believe it…

8:44 pm on 3/7/2005 4. SuperDave

Look at me, I’m Ian, I’m illiterate, I’m a dumbass.

Up yours dickweed, learn to read.

10:20 pm on 3/7/2005 5. Sam

Thanks for adding to the positive atmosphere SuperDave.

10:30 pm on 3/7/2005 6. Nella

ah, and thanks for letting me know that the insult type I thought of is effective by using it against me! Looka me! I’m Sean! I just inadvertently complimented Ian!

4:48 pm on 10/28/2005 7. Pony Rider Sixty Nine

I feel like sucking too man. Lets meet at a cheap motel, where you will drown me in cheesy lines and cheap booze until I am finally ready to give myself to you. From there we will fornicate in the rest room and hopefully I wont pass out be for you finish. The next day I will wake up face first in a puddle of piss and vomit. I will then a tempt to contact you for a meaningful relationship which will frighten you and you will begin to process your fourth restraining order this year. I will feel rejected and moan about how I love you too much to live with out you and tell you you are as good as dead with out me. You will fear for your life at this state meant, and will try to leave through some sort of abused spousal relocation program. I will follow you to a small town where you will find me waiting in your living room when you get home from your minimum wage job. You will beg for mercy but I will have none for you, especially not after a 13 hour flight and terrible motel food. I will strangle you and you will finally see god, but much too late to repent and will spend eternity regreting one lousy fuck in a motel rest room. PS, I need my sweater back…

11:34 am on 10/29/2005 8. SuperDave

Fornicate? Repent? Eternity of Regret? Pope Innocent III called, he wants his lingo back.
I’ll see you in hell, fuckface.

12:02 am on 11/21/2005 9. Me

I don’t know what all that was about, with the creepy one night stand story, but SuperDave’s right. Life just kinda sucks these days. Nothing to really go for anymore.

1:32 pm on 1/10/2006 10. fred

You guys don’t seem to actually have anything concrete to complain about. Just because everything isn’t perfect you think life sucks? Get a grip and be glad you don’t have any real difficulties in your life.

1:43 am on 1/17/2006 11. Shawn Alexander

It seems to me everytime i go to sleep i lay in my bed thinking about what i have accomplished in my life. I think to myself that i am just a failier and should just give up. The past two years i have fallen into a deep drug addiction and cant seem to find the way out. Upon this drug addiction i have lost everything that has been important in my life which has now vanished from me. I lost so many things including my job, my car,and most importantly my girlfriend. My girlfriend was the only thing that kept me to believe that life was full of beautiful things. Now that i have lost all those things precious to me i have become lonely and im afraid to say but i just dont know what to do anymore.

2:33 am on 1/19/2006 12. fred

Well don’t give up Shawn , every dark tunnel has a light of hope.

4:51 am on 1/23/2006 13. T-Bone

Wow, I got to this site by mistake but I just loved reading all this crazy stuff. I agree with Fred - don’t complain if you’ve got nothing specific to moan about. I’m not saying your life doesn’t suck, just that you shouldn’t complain about it because if nothing is objectively wrong with it, it’s probably your fault (i.e. your attitude) that ypu’re unhappy, so stop complaining and go in a new direction, it just might help.
I’m teaching English in China and I have “objective” problems - a crooked boss, a low salary, I even had to resort to local mafia support to save myself from getting picked up by the cops in Yi Chun because my boss thought I was skipping town permanently and decided to get premature revenge on me.
But that stuff is so new and insane, I laughed my way through it. It’s the only way to live, dude.

10:37 pm on 1/23/2006 14. Audrey

i recently gave up being unhappy, this might just sound crazey but it was realy easy to do (for me anyway), i find peolpe dont like me as much this way & i to find myself to be kinda boring now, im always laughing at bad jokes & smiling real big & ugly. i now find life’s just more interesting when it sucks, and i think i was happier being unhappy.

11:00 am on 3/31/2006 15. Rick Buskirk

Being a former navy hair dresser, I just came accross your site, if you know what I mean. If it weren’t for the Kentucky Wildcats there would be nothing to live for.

8:03 pm on 4/1/2006 16. chuck

Hello My name is chuck.
It seems that the world is all mixed up.
What do I do When it seems that shit just keeps hitting the fan. I sit a roll A J.
Now I am in Canada, Ont. TORONTO.
Here its not so bad if get caught with a
J or 2 . They take it and smoke it for them selvs. But I think its like 5 years if you get caught. NOW THAT SUCKS.
Also NEVER WORK FOR SOME ONE.
WORK FOR YOUR SELF.
ALL THE BEST………..

6:36 am on 4/17/2006 17. Mike

This world sucks. Its boring, unsatisfying, and filthy. Its not just filthy with pollution and all that garbage, but with corruption in the governments and impowerment. Whether we want to believe it or not, everything in this world is controlled by someone. The land that we walk on is our governments. The Oceans that we sail on are owned by the people who have won it in some way or another. School also sucks. I never pass anything because im always out trying to find someway to enjoy our only time here. School is just a waste of our lives. People should enjoy themselves and do what they feel like. Otherwise what are we going to have to look back on when were on our death beds having flashbacks… “Oh, remember that time i got an A on my science project? yea good times…”. What if this is all we have? What if there is no afterlife? What then? All im trying to say is make a name for yourself. do what you want. Make others see that you dont care who sees you dancing.

If you hear the music, dance. If people call you crazy for that, then their crazy. Were not crazy because we dance, they just cant hear the music.

9:04 pm on 4/17/2006 18. Thomas

Haha! what a negativ-istic view of the world. look at it this way, our bodies are made for a singular purpose only. The survival and reproduction of your individual genome. In otherwords, sex. Get off your ass and do something that serves that purpose. make daddy proud and oh btw, have fun while you’re at it.

11:05 pm on 5/23/2006 19. What the??

I think, you all should be grateful you’re even breathing to this day. Make the most of what you do have!! If there is something you dont have and want, go out and pursue it, achieve it!! There is no way of helping yourself by diving deeper into the black pool of despair!!

I’m currently a medschool student and even though my class “peers” think im the dumbest person out (only coz i dont talk about star wars during breaks), i still manage to sit in my lectures and out of sheer grit, manage to continue, even though i know that competition in medschool is extremely high and i may not even be known for the hard work and shit people give me.

Just do what youve wanted to alwayz do and live the in the moment!!!!!

Cheers n also take better care of yourselves so the hospitals have extra rooms for emergency situations

1:41 pm on 8/25/2006 20. Paul

so i says to myrtle i says “that’s funny, this cereal box says corn flakes, but there are all these little things that look like raisins…and one of them is crawling away..and..OHHH WHAT THE FUCK! I WAS EATING BUGS!!! I’M GONNA SMASH YOUR FUCKING HEAD IN MYRTLE!!”

Hey by the way, has anyone seen my keys? I think i threw them at someone’s face, but i can’t remember who. Don’t you hate it when that shit happens??

9:45 am on 10/17/2006 21. le chump

Hey, guys. You may not want to hear this, but you should try going to church if you feel so bad.

Just ask yourself this. Why is it that some people love church more than life, and others hate church more than death? Why the huge difference?

The answer is simple. People who hate church, have not properly understood it.

Think of church like mathematics. Very hard to understand properly, but once you do understand it properly, it becomes a powerful tool in your life to lead toward happiness.

Understanding math lets you get a good job. Understanding church lets you lead a happy life.

But if you fail to properly understand either math or church, you will hate them both.

8:46 pm on 12/23/2006 22. justin

yea lifes a bit of a tit. i can’t really seem to give 2 shits about anything anymore. i was raised christian and that just helped me realized that religion is a form of control over people who are susceptible to fear games. churchy dude, are you serious, y ou really think that you’re going to have a wonderful life just because you went to some poo church on sunday morning thanking some god like a brainwashed sheep for all that the almighty has provided. our world is under attack and we are too stupid and brainwashed to see, were all useless robots who drill our earth dry burn our sky black and twist our own tits blue shit this world needs a giant bitch slap from somewhere quick. please people stop consuming stop believing the media divorce yourself from the world join me sometime somewhere somewhere else

1:23 am on 2/26/2007 23. Daniel

I felt just like you when i was in school
and let me tell you…
schools know absolute shit.
if you are smart you dont need school and it hinders you thats a fact.
Smart people are always hired and smart people always make money and smart people when they are allowed to do what they like are the happiest.

6:07 pm on 4/16/2007 24. Eddie

Wow, some of you need to get your own blog with the sob stories… Like the main piece, don’t agree with it much, but it was enjoyable.

5:49 am on 4/23/2007 25. some guy in this world

Look evrybody, life sucks in every way. The problem is how much it sucks. The people in my life suck but the events and places and even me, suck beond comparison. I have realized that I cn’t help myself nor others. Once I was a happy kid but in the past 2 yaers everithing bad that can happen has, it all seams like shit, but I know that if I find someone how can love me, I can get happy again but she’ll have to put efort in bringing me back to happines. But a big problem is if enyone would help me or even be with me. IF I EVER FIND THAT PERSON I KNOW I CAN BECOME A GREAT MAN but, will i even find a good freand would help, caus curently i have non.
P.S.
I have a split personalyty that makes others back of and thats really sucks.

12:27 pm on 4/25/2007 26. hey read all of this

The human mind is the most perplexing masterpiece of all time. It has managed to manipulate all other species on this earth and take control.

I would like to focus, at least for this topic, on religion. I would like to look at this from a sterilized scientific point of view, and I do not mean to offend anyone who has a religion. I’m sure many of the things I am about to discuss directly contradict many established teachings…so bear with me. I am also aware that this topic has been discussed many times in the past by many people, but I’m tossing it around so that we can do it too .

Why have humans created themselves a higher power? Many religions sprung up with the creation of civilization, each independantly of the other. At some point, most people on Earth decided they needed something to blame, worship, love, use, etc. They then got the notion stuck in their heads that there was a higher power (or in some cases, multiple powers). Many have used this imagined power to justify their actions. The Crusades were a great example.

So it all boils down to one thing. Where did we get this idea in the first place? Does it satisfy some need or fill some void in our souls? My personal take: We need Greatness. Something with absolute control and power. We want to be ruled. We want to have someone/something to turn to when all other venues of sympathy have been exhausted. Humans, being social organisms, create themselves an overlord.

The key to religion is mob psychology. People need to have other people with common beliefs and ideals. It is a great conversation starter, discussing such topics. All successful religions have developed a devout following.

Throughout all this, I’ve painted religion as sort of an ugly and childish solution to our problems. Personally, I think it’s great. I respect everyone with beliefs. I think they build character, make people nicer, and easier to deal with. Religion is a great release for stressed out humans, it creates diversity, and nourishes intellectual discussions.

8:04 pm on 5/20/2007 27. sam

i agree.. life, yeah it pretty much sucks, but at the same time it doesn’t. i think the only way to make it a little easier is to find your own sense of happiness. There is no such thing as happiness in general, its the type of happiness you find within yourself, for example.. one persons happiness is to have be a millionaire with a huge house and a hott blond as a wife while someone else’s happiness is to be free of a sickness, serious or not so they can go and spend time with family and friends. The hard part is the journey but that is what life is about the ups and MOSTLY downs during the journey, but i believe that those [damn] downs, they help to shape who you are. C’mon, if we were happy all the time, this world will be worse than what it is now. Maybe thats exactly the way it was meant to be, we do something bad, and if were [smart] we learn and we accept and eventually move on and while some are stronger than others, i think we all have our individual strength, you just have to take time and establish what that is. Like they say, just sit back and smell the flowers or coffee.. whatever, cuz if you dont take the time to do that, things will always suck and well life will just suck even more…

8:08 pm on 6/18/2007 28. Me

There are some really smart people posting on this, but some really ignorant ones too. Especially the med student who used the biggest cliche of all times: “Live life to the fullest”… Yeah, like we’ve never heard that shit before.

The world DOES suck today. I think that some people are correct in saying that we need to look at the more optimistic side of things, but that (in the long run) doesn’t pay your bills, doesn’t take care of the apartment repairs, doesn’t get you a new job, doesn’t keep food on the table, doesn’t pay your taxes, doesn’t pay for the 3-4 dollar-a-gallon gas, doesn’t help you move into a new town when your mother is an alchoholic and father is a lazy ass, and it doesn’t erase 20 years of verbal and physical abuse from family and friends.

“But don’t bitch if you don’t have anything concrete to complain about…” Gee… Okay, how about how I come from a “middle class” family life where getting a fucking Pizza Hut pizza was the sunshine of the bi-weekly paycheck? What about where having your friends over to spend the night at your house only to learn that your mother and stepfather would be having an argument where the cops have to come? I’m sure that goes over well with reputation points… And what about voting? Do you really, honestly think that voting in America is honest anymore? We all know that every damn politician is a crooked son-of-a-bitch that can’t tell you their name and keep a straight face. So why do all this bitching? Why complain about life and it’s eternal struggle with the inner self? Because that’s the only power we still have!!! We’ve lost everything!

Can’t you see that?

4:05 pm on 1/30/2008 29. TIM

I only read the original post, none of the others. I persnally think one of the reasons why everything sucks these days is due to computers and the internet. Although there is a big convenience with them, it makes eveything to be expected to be delivered with instant gratification without the work or wait. The other is government being run by poiticians individual quest instead of what AMERICANS would be benifited by. Lastley, extensive media coverage on just about everything!!!! Give me a break!

4:45 pm on 2/4/2008 30. leo

life does suck. i just been thinking about this lstely. dont get me wrong i am thnakful for what i have and whatnot, im a happy person almost always, but life just sucks these days. is it really explainable? i dont know. what really sucks is i never feel like doing shit so i dont but im still able to get by. you cant have one postive without someone pointing out 2 negatives. Just so many people that i know i think suck. just i look at them and im like they suck then i get to know them and the suck. What the hell?

6:53 pm on 8/3/2008 31. mike

life does suck. on my second marriage and sometime after the wedding she went from the woman i married to my ex wife. man i really can pic them. now im stuck with this woman that thinks she does no wrong and complains about everything i do. she spends all of my money (because she doesnt work) on her and her kids. her kids can basically do what ever they want, right or wrong and all she does is make excuses for them. at the same time everthing my kids do is wrong and its all because the werent disaplined the right way by me or my ex wife.her oldest kids who have kids of there own for some reason she doesnt want them to move. so they live with us rent free so they can buy whatever they want and eat out everyday. i miss my kids but i dont really blame them for not coming over alot because my wife treats them like she treats me, direspectful.i still love her but i dont like her very much.ive tried to leave a few time but it hasnt work out yet. im to the point that i think that im just not suppost to be very happy. i like seeing my kids but i think that they believe that i abbanded them for my new family and that just isnt true. about the only one of them i really like is my step granddaughter. shes the only person at this time that brings me happiness.thats probably the reason i stick around.i hope things get better.

6:28 pm on 10/5/2008 32. screwed

well were do i start. this fucked up marriage that im in with her fucked up kids and all shes done is drive my kids away. all i here is how they were raised so good and all they do is take advantage of anyone they can. especially me and my wife. if they get mad all they do is want to kill each other, and god forbid they should lift one goddamned finger to to help with anything in this house. i have to blame my wife because all she does is make excuses for them and clean up there shit. i think things would be of if her kids were gone but i dont know if i can hold out that long. maybe im just making excuses. i need a beer

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