• rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
    181·
    7 days ago

    Don’t threaten me with a good time.

    But really though, I’m not even sure that any of my big issues even have anything to do with any actual mistakes I made. It’s hard to argue with genetics and the medical system’s ineptitude.

    • 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Sorry, I don’t mean to sound like I trying to “one-up” you, but I just wanna share, my existence is an actual mistake. I was born under China’s “One Child Policy”, but I was the 2nd child. An actual oversight of the government’s enforcement. I mean I’m glad to exist, but really, I wasn’t supposed to. Its why I have mini-existential crisis all the time.

      What I’m saying is: I get it. I know what it is to feel like being a mistake.

      I’ve made a lot of personal-choice mistakes too.

      But, the common saying goes: “It’s not a mistake, it’s a happy little accident”

      🤗 (internet hug?)

      • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Sorry, I was making a joke. A lot of people weren’t planned but I’d rather call that providence. And I could go on a rant agaist that horrid policy and the ccp in general but I am sure you know better than most of their crimes against humanity.

  • picnicolas@slrpnk.netEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    This is accidentally a very Buddhist take - the sense of a separate self is illusory and based on karmic impressions, i.e. trauma, and the mistakes that living in our trauma patterns keep perpetuating, i.e. samsara.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    It makes more sense in response to our (allegedly) meritocratic overlords who insist:

    • I don’t take personal responsibility
    • I have a preponderant sense of entitlement
    • I do not respect my betters
    • I do not bootstrap myself
    • I do not carry my own administrative burden

    I’d happy to retroactively cease existing so that I am not judged.